As much as I’m on-board with EVs this isn’t as compelling as the Ford Maverick at the price point. As you add features they’re at price parity and you arguably get much more for your money with the Ford.
Outlook has been an embarrassment for years. Poor defaults, bugs that have existed for years, and sub-par performance.
Search for a meeting: it shows you the oldest first.
Busy search calendars? It may or may not show working hours. It’s incapable of helpfully locating a mutually agreeable time in the way more modern agents can.
Search for mail? It’s an abomination trying to prioritize what you actually want.
The settings aren’t intuitively organized and a hodgepodge of UI standards.
I had two friends (both PHDs, both worked for the CDC) leave the US this week.
In addition to the tumult at the agency, they were being monitored for what they did on their own time. Truly draconian stuff.
Want to collaborate with the WHO? Forbidden. Speak at a conference abroad on vacation time? Nope.
I don’t blame them. The autocratic push at the top feels different when it extends beyond work, and touches causes you feel deeply about. It’s a huge loss for the US.
My two chief complaints are instability and lack of consistency across the UI. There are 20-year-old dialogs lurking behind shiny new interfaces.
Search doesn’t work reliably. Right-Clicking on a file twice in a row will often present different options. Finally, inserting AI where you least expect or want it just slows common tasks. I don’t need AI to guess the next data value in a series.
They’ve left a huge opening for Google, more so than Apple, to get a foot in the door for corporate computing.
It’s shocking that this hasn’t happened sooner. At its height the cost was over $10k and at that point Tesla had all but doomed its cars by removing sensors they deemed unnecessary.
It’s also appropriate to point out: Waymo and others have been doing this for years. Tesla is a fraud.
While understanding their motivation to combat fraud they have a 20-year purchase history and have already established identity through payment methods. This is just lazy and perhaps additional data harvesting.
Amazon got so large they stopped paying attention to the details.
Our Enterprise Chrome doesn't allow me to access the page to disable this behavior. Signing out of Chrome (but leaving extensions and bookmarks) is the only way I've found to stop the never-ending Google sign-in prompts.
If someone's found a setting page that does what he describes please reply here. This makes me crazy and seems incredibly risky.
If I recall correctly project 2025 had an item about targeting pornography. I could be wrong but it wouldn’t surprise me if the payment processors wanted to avoid the ire of the current administration and preemptively took action.
Teams has never been as good as Skype at calls, even in the very early days.
I was shocked at how good Skype was when my son called a friend in a French village where he was an exchange student. The quality rivaled the best local calls on a landline.
Teams still feels disjointed and awkward, is slow as hell, and manages to make the simplest tasks (adjusting volume) incredibly difficult.
Having talked to a couple of people in the CDC I fear the worst. They’re not allowed to participate with the WHO outside of the agency (even on their own time). The employees are largely censored from expressing their opinion on any topic, anywhere.
They were talking about getting work outside of the States. These are smart, dedicated people who are boots-on-the-ground for crises like Ebola, and I wonder about the purpose of the agency and our ability to respond to the next event (with bird flu looming on the horizon).
So research aside, our incident response has already been compromised, and we’re just seeing the beginning.
I don’t know if it’s widely known but now that we have TikTok back it’s irrevocably altered. Content amd actions are being policed for anti-right wing sentiment and people are being TOS’d or prohibited from that action.
Examples that have been posted: warnings or prohibitions from posting content. Limits placed on sharing content (no bulk-sharing and a hard stop on sharing).
We’ve lost one of the only venues that wasn’t under control of an American oligarch, and it’s now clear what we’ve traded to retain access to TikTok.