Flint wrote:

... MS Teams can't add words to the dictionary. ...

New solution to this issue just dropped-- users won't have to worry about Teams inability to add words to the dictionary because IT JUST DOESN'T DO A SPELLCHECK ANYMORE. Problem "solved"
 

glatt wrote:

... Outlook deletes actual entire emails from my inbox instead of typos in the search field because somehow the mailbox gets selected and then unknown unread emails are deleted. ... a box to uncheck deep in Outlook menu options, so hopefully I've blocked this feature. Can't be sure. ...

That's horrifying. What was the checkbox?

In my field, not having the correct number of leading zeroes turns data into meaningless gibberish.

I've been pasting this stuff into spreadsheets for 20 years, and Excel never once "offered to help" with this until 1 week ago.

"by default Excel will remove leading zeroes"

...

WHY??!

Hello, Jello.

monster wrote:

... if there's anything you regularly refer to, you might want to consider "rescuing" it now.

I have no idea how to do this. I tried saving some pages but they just showed up as a folder full of jpegs and random gibberish.
 

Microsoft continues to act all anti-trusty. In insidious ways:

Office apps like Word and Excel, when saving a document, it defaults to One Drive. You have to click Browse to open the dialog which allows you to save locally to the PC. It never remembers this-- you have to do it every time. It's inconvenient, so you eventually give up and start keeping your files in One Drive.

So why does this matter? Because they're steering a captive audience towards their cloud storage application, driving them away from using their direct competitors, like Dropbox. Once they have people hooked into One Drive, they're less likely to start using another similar app. Why ever subscribe to Dropbox when MS already strong-armed you into using their product?

This is sneaky and gross.

eta: AND the end result that every Office user has to deal with-- IT TAKES LONGER, AND IS LESS CONVENIENT TO SAVE FILES. A basic ƒucking function of the goddamn thing.

People have said Vermilion should be green and Chartreuse should be red.

Words that should pop out of random particle-antiparticle pairs in the quantum foam..

"Schrodinger's Goalpost"
--not just a shifting goalpost, it can decide not to exist.



 

I'm starting a script today.
I'm writing the opening scene. 

I've got the world's ontological consistency figured out well enough to start populating it with my slush pile of scenes, settings, characters and relationships.

Hey, those janky effects are legendary.

I used to camp by the Guadalupe river. I never would have expected it to rise 26 feet in 45 minutes.

I can't even imagine what a river rising 26 feet would look like, in any amount of minutes.