Lapis the Nevrean

@lapisnev

Don't squeeze me, I fart

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Things that make you go 🤌. Weird computer stuff. Artist and general creative type. Occasionally funny. Gentoo on main. I play rhythm games!

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Lapis the Nevrean @lapisnev4/20/2023, 8:19 PM

gravis again @cathoderaydude

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/20/2023, 7:55 PM

customer downloads a CSV file from the teams admin portal

drags and drops it into our teams chat

i click on it

instead of downloading the file, it takes me to... their internal fucking sharepoint?

and then FAILS BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE PERMS

IT'S A FUCKING CSV

EVERYONE INVOLVED WITH THIS SHOULD BE BANNED FROM PROGRAMMING FOR LIFE

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/20/2023, 8:08 PM

the worst thing a computer can do is notice that I'm trying to analog-hole something to get around it's dumbass attempts to "Help" and then try to "Help" anyway. that's when i fucking pitch the piece of shit out the window if i hadn't already. eat shit get fucked burn in hell drown in a well. microsoft teams is a fucking war crime. its purpose is to turn your job into "using microsoft teams"

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@darryl @darryl4/20/2023, 8:06 PM

on the one hand, making programming a protected profession with an oversight body and licensing requirements is bureaucratic, and gatekeeping, and intrusive

on the other hand, this

@garudina4/20/2023, 9:12 PM

it also likes to open excel spreadsheets, word docs, etc inside the application, with its own embedded excel/word/etc, rather than downloading them where I can use them in the actual relevant microsoft software, whose license we actually pay for

I think it's because they want to try to make you store all your things in OneDrive, as though that was just how files are now: stored on systems not belonging to you

you can use the three dots menu to download le fucking file, usually, but of course because of the whole "flat color rectangles UX" thing that fully owns Teams' soul, it's a bit tricky to hit that button without clicking the underyling Tile and getting warp piped back to bullshit land

gravis again @cathoderaydude4/20/2023, 9:17 PM

I mean going beyond even that - I don't think Microsoft wants you to know that Excel.exe exists. I tried to find a way to buy Not-In-A-Browser Office the other day and there was no clear option.

@garudina4/20/2023, 9:51 PM

you know what works a thousand times better than every microsoft in-browser app and has never cost me anything as an end user? google's exactly-that-product but ten years earlier to market

not that they don't have their own wasting diseases

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Lexie_Plays_Fast @Lexie-Plays-Fast4/20/2023, 9:18 PM

I forget where I read this, but an insight someone gave me was that a lot of Microsoft's design decisions make some kind of sense when you consider the actual target demo: Project managers at Microsoft (i.e. people whose job is, in a very literal sense, "using microsoft teams").

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