The car was the slow part, I have an S23+.

The wrestling was figuring out getting BT audio ONLY.

And until I reset the head unit to factory previous users, contacts, radio stations and destinations were all stored there.

Not great on a rental car.

Not the whole phone obviously. But syncing all my contacts, recent calls etc.

Bro couldn’t even clean his room in 3 days.

I’m happy with a Bluetooth connection to the stereo. I have maps on my phone.

Fuck carplay/android auto in the ear.

I hate getting a rental car and I just want my music, but it tries to hijack and download my whole phone.

I want to get in, connect my phone and go. Not 20 minutes wrestling it for control.

Digital displays are fine. It’s just a display. But controls should be manual (buttons, dials, etc) that can be operated with eyes on road.

People make mistakes, that’s why we automate things. If a system relies on a human not making mistakes it is doomed to fail eventually.

Saving manually should be a feature, but autoaave should be on by default these days, unless 30+ years of people losing work due to not hitting “save” manually has taught us nothing.

Crashes happen. Errors happen. Pets and children happen. Any major document editor should be able to auto save and replay a very long history of actions.

Improve the system, because you can’t improve people with a code patch.

Formatting in Word is so easy.

If this issue from 1997 is still affecting you, you probably still use Internet Explorer.

Skill issue.

Cavalier poodle is called a cavoodle

As the owner of a .info domain, I know this pain all too well.

Fxtwitter.com

They’re fixing most of this nonsense.

Teams, when used within a single Org, works great. For 3rd party interaction, or working for multiple Orgs I would highly recommend almost any other product.

The intra-org integration with SharePoint and document management/data retention is very good.

But nonsense like what OP is experiencing is why even I, as the senior MS Support SysAdmin at my employer, refuse to use Microsoft Office products on my personal Android phone.

If they want/need me to do that, they can give me a dedicated phone just for that purpose. MS MAM is never touching my personal equipment in a million years.

OP is stuck between a rock and a crap place.

Because I have a family subscription. YT and YT music for the whole family, means my kids are ad free and managed. I use the heck out of it and can afford it.

I don’t pay for Spotify, and with the price hike Disney + is about to get the eye patch treatment.

But I really do use the heck out of YT, so for me it’s worth it.

But if you don’t see the value, do what you gotta do.

This is just to get rid of people that set up their own sub to be a mod and use modtool right on the API to make their 3rd party app keep working.

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Space Invaders

To address the whooshing sound…
Smells like Teen Spirit:
“I feel stupid, and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us”

AFAICT Gen X should really just be split into Boomers and early millennials.

I’m a late gen X (1978) and do not associate with boomers at all.

We’re basically millennials before the internet.

It’s all about the phrasing.

Other things that suffer from this have been listed in memes.

“Butt dial.” Vs. “Booty call”

And

“Forgive me father, for I have sinned.” Vs. “Sorry Daddy, I’ve been a bad girl.”

Fair.

We use the sign interpreter feature in Teams and it’s really good. The live captions struggles a bit with the Aussie accent though.

But mostly it’s the SharePoint/OneDrive/Outlook/m365 integration I find useful. If I was on Linus or macOS, I suspect I would feel differently.

OneDrive on Mac is ass.

At work Teams has been great.

Zoom is too bare-bomes.

The I hacked it together at 3am feel of the zoom interface makes me actively hate the damn thing.

Like teams feels like a communication application. Zoom feels like a hobby project.

Now… Let’s see what 1000 years of cosmic radiation does to the data.

Boss said stop coming in late.
I said I’m trying but my body hasn’t cooperated with this start time for the last 30 years, I don’t see why it will start now.
Boss said would starting and finishing later work?

For the last 5 years I’ve been starting at 9:30 and finishing at 6. And I haven’t been late due to me as a person since.

Public transport problems happen occasionally, but it was that simple for them to get a full day out of me reliably.