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Well knot that shocked.

I worked for nearly a decade as product support for various voice mail applications, so I feel very strongly about this.

Fuck voice mail.

that is what i was thinking, you grill it, melt the cheese and sautee the onion a bit and it would be fantastic. same ingredients, not much work.

Fortunately my dad is a retired cybersecurity architect so they live as modern-day Luddites.

Oh gods, I had forgotten what a pain in the ass that setup was and how it would just randomly stop working when they changed something on their side.

I work with Teams as an admin.

1. Teams is a resource hog.
2. Under the hood it appears to be a mess.
3. The user workflow aggressively tries to prevent users from multitasking, despite many jobs requiring this.
4. Product design is a shining example of the greater Microsoft philosophy of forcing customers to adapt their business to Microsoft’s technology instead of having technology flexible enough to adapt to a customer’s business needs.
5. From an admin standpoint it has numerous questionable design decisions surrounding UC. For example, you can register non-Teams SIP phones to it, but you can’t see the IP addresses of these registered devices(?!). In general, from a telephony standpoint, Teams is good at providing dial tone and some very basic telephony features, enough to make senior leadership think that it does everything, but if you need UC functionality for more than users who sit at a desk all day it falls apart quickly.
6. My conversations with representatives from the product team at Microsoft suggests they are out of touch with how businesses use telephones.

I still know my way around autoexec.bat and config.sys

This isn’t so bad. I normally am more than happy to let someone else take the lead but if nobody else is going to do something I may as well take charge.

The trick is to fake confidence then everyone thinks you know what you’re doing.

I do enjoy how GenX doesn’t appear at all. Very appropriate.

My cat pushes the bridge of her nose into the bridge of my nose, as long as I’m gentle I can push back a little and she starts purring.

With this model everything about you will be shared with every appliance in the vicinity.

See, you might have noticed that I never claimed perfect English existed in Germany (or anywhere). You seem to be attempting to win an argument that doesn’t exist.

See, that is what I mean. Nobody speaks “perfect” English, not even native speakers, because languages are not prescriptive. Their function is to communicate ideas and if you have successfully communicated then you have used language “perfectly”.

Only because of their exacting standards. Even when I lived in Germany in the 90s the only time I had trouble understanding someone speaking English was when our realtor was trying to be racist but didn’t know the English words.

Kind of, yeah. Like a vendor can buy you lunch as long as the total amount per annum is less than a certain amount and if it goes over that you just have to disclose it so E&C can make sure that this doesn’t impact decision-making. There is an allowance for a certain level of glad-handing so I don’t get fired because Cisco came by and gave me a branded t-shirt.

Man, I’ve seen so many people fired for taking bribes and kickbacks from vendors. Not even large amounts, just more than the limit and then not disclosing it to the ethics and compliance board. Such a stupid way to sabotage your own career.

I am in the process of doing exactly that, as I migrate data and applications into my Linux build I will repartition that space to ext4.

I am at around 3 weeks of using Mint as my daily driver, here are the issues I have had:

My Realtek sound card would not output 5.1 over S/PDIF. I worked on this quite a bit before finding a thread of someone with the same model having the same issue where even the guru over on the Mint forums couldn’t make it work. Solution was to just use the analog 5.1 out instead.

NVIDIA drivers are not amazing, especially running multiple displays with different resolutions. I get poor performance on my secondary monitors when running even moderate GPU tasks on my main display. In Windows I could watch a stream while playing a game in a borderless window, but in Mint I will get choppy framerate on the secondary displays. Further game performance is mostly good but I get occasional choppy performance in Proton games, even running via Lutris. None of this is a deal breaker, just mildly annoying.

This is less of an issue with Linux and more of me being a doofus, but I went to add my ntfs drives to fstab so they mount when I start up. I have done linux server admin professionally for 20 years, surely I can manage fstab - nope! A careless typo caused a startup failure. Fortunately it was easy to boot into maintenance mode and fix the issue.

Hanging on with 1.70E-31 health.