I am so frustrated with all the crap MSFT are doing to Outlook at the moment. WTF is the search bar in the title bar? How am I supposed to move the Outlook window around when there is a search bar taking up valuable grabable space. Also, why is there a search bar on Every.Single.Fucking.Window. I don’t need a search bar on the task I have that has 5 lines of content. Finally, why is the search bar so fucking useless. I want to search for an email from my manager, about a widget for a specific customer, so I type in the managers name, the part number for the widget and the customers name. What comes up? Either every single item involving any of these terms or nothing! And it is inconsistent. The same search either works or doesn’t work depending on some random attribute that no one can rationalise.

HR and Management; WhY aReN’t YoU uSiNg TeAmS?

People who actually do the work for a living; “because I want to actually get something done”

I don’t understand how governments and organisations are still relying on third party’s for critical business communication infrastructure.

That said, my company recently outsourced email, etc to Microsoft’s cloud services, so there is that.

Maybe Microsoft needs to start offering Fediverse services into their business products. They probably won’t because LinkedIn.

Because the hardware is being made obsolete for a reason. They are inefficient compared to modern hardware, consume way too much power and there are cheaper and more powerful options available.

A modern ARM-based computer like the Raspberry Pi 5 can outperform most computers and laptops running Windows 10 and have a smaller environmental footprint.

The problem is that the obsolete hardware is not cost effective to decommission and recycle. They have not been designed for an environmentally conscious world.

People are still subscribed to Netflix, even though the price keeps going up, even if they don’t watch it. People still have multiscreen subscriptions, even if only one person ever watches it. People still pay their monthly fee for a cable subscription.

I upgraded to a Family subscription so I could watch my YouTube without Ads and I could watch YouTube with my brother without Ads and it was only a few dollars more.

If Google increased the price gradually, a dollar at a time, I would probably not have noticed, like the mythical frog in the cookpot. The fact that they increased the price and clamped down on Ad Blockers at the same time bought media attention to the price rise.

When we are paying that same amount for Netflix and/or Disney+ and/or whatever other streaming service and all the content is shit, paying for YouTube Premium was pretty good value.

There is a market of niche video content that is not ever going to be fulfilled by the Mainstream streaming companies, content creators need to be able to fund their content creation and I fucking hate Ads.

If I can pay a small amount to avoid the Ads, don’t have to participate in the arms race of Ad Blockers and still know that the content creators are getting paid I will be happy to pay.

Unfortunately, Google has increased that pittance progressively over time and have now increased it dramatically. They have also introduced a payment platform to try and muscle out Patreon. This suggests that the money from my subscription is not getting the the creators.

I can’t pay a small amount to avoid ads any more. Content creators are not getting paid, and I am being forced to either not get the content any more or start investigating Ad Blockers.

As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing. The fact that they A) clamped down on AdBlockers and B) increased Premium rates is a major disappointment.

Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.

Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.

Lemmy us only superficially similar to Reddit. In fact it is much more, or so much less, depending on what you need in your social networking.

That level of control makes it more complicated for some people.