The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Chukotka, the farthest east of the sovyet union
Nah, that would be Kamchatka. But Chukotka is close.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Chukotka, the farthest east of the sovyet union
Nah, that would be Kamchatka. But Chukotka is close.
Parts of Chukotka are east of 180°E. That made some map rendering engines place it West of alaska, without connection to the rest of russia (unfortunately, I do not find such a funny map of russia at the moment - but take a look at openstreetmap:
https://www.openstreetmap.de/karte.html?zoom=5&lat=61.73435&lon=-156.6043&layers=B000TT ).
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@BernieTheBernie okay, you win.
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@BernieTheBernie okay, you win.
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An interactive map of xkcd popularity around the world!
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@Benjamin-Hall I am pretty sure the cheese should be thinner. Looks like not enough wine.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Benjamin-Hall I am pretty sure the cheese should be thinner. Looks like not enough wine.
Oh absolutely. The viscosity there is all sorts of wrong. Molten chocolate (what that fountain was designed for) is way runnier.
But his face is funny when it all goes wrong.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
when it all goes wrong.
The moment it lifted up I would have turned the machine off.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What if I left my Christmas decorations up all year?
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@djls45 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
What if I left my Christmas decorations up all year?
So you're the reason for Canada!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Doesn't stop my bitches....
We'd rather that your bitches didn't have nuts
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@boomzilla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
PETA ("people for the ethical treatment of animals", not "people eating tasty animals") will complain: that poor bird is NOT connected to covid!
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This had me laughing out loud this morning:
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@boomzilla nope thread is
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
that poor bird is NOT connected to covid!
Where did it claim it was? It said corvid corpse.
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It's Reddit so breaking the Onebox
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I can't remember which thread has the discussion of the qualities of Teams, so I'll just leave this here.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I can't remember which thread has the discussion of the qualities of Teams, so I'll just leave this here.
Whatever quality it is, it is still massive improvement over Skype-
foragainst-Business.
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Am I the only one who generally likes Teams? It's been working pretty well at my company, both the web version and Windows app
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@hungrier the damn app can't even keep track of read messages. Sometimes I have to click the message 5 times before the red dot disappears. Sometimes it doesn't tell me about a new message at all.
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@hungrier The actual functionalities work reasonably well for me. The chat is a chat, I have not had any connectivity issues with audio/video/screen sharing (not saying they're perfect, but no worse than other tools), and I find that the ability to e.g. directly edit shared documents is pretty nice.
But OTOH, what I deeply despise about it is that it's a hodgepodge of everything mashed together. There are chats and teams and channels and meetings and activity and buttons everywhere and functions that exist or don't exist in one place or in another and... it's a mess. And it's full of tiny annoying bugs, like the one mentioned by @Gąska -- the one that annoys me is that typing a smiley in a chat sometimes just... doesn't enter it.
It looks like a reasonable idea of a way to share everything, but catastrophically badly implemented -- probably as a poster-child of how "agile" can lead to a disaster, with tiny features added in each sprint with no oversight or coordination.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Am I the only one who generally likes Teams?
The meetings bit of it is worse than the others. I have no experience with anything else it does.
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
And it's full of tiny annoying bugs
Like the inability to select where to save a downloaded file.
They don't have the resources to add something like 3 lines of code. Poor Microsoft
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Am I the only one who generally likes Teams?
The meetings bit of it is worse than the others. I have no experience with anything else it does.
A few months ago I did see much better video meetings with other services (Zoom, Cisco webex, and some other one that I don't recall) but more recently it has been much improved. Still not perfect but no worse than Zoom.
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@hungrier said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Am I the only one who generally likes Teams? It's been working pretty well at my company, both the web version and Windows app
I like it. I don't use the web version. But there is a front-end for my linux machine and makes it easy to join calls on my phone. Changing background has seemed less than optimal but I haven't used anything in which that wasn't the case.
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
for my linux machine
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@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
for my linux machine
This has been a trial by fire.
I had initially moved because the existing windows boot drive to this computer
crashed and wouldn't boot.At some point in February it crashed and wouldn't boot,I figured now was a good time to switch.Then with work from home, our VPN only worked with IE. They attempted to make it work with all OSes and while they got it working with alternate browsers and Mac, I was 1 of 3 special snowflakes that used linux.
So I remote into a windows machine (which is currently only being used for this purpose) to log into our VPN and my work machine. (Though this makes it really easy to either focus on work or focus on doing work locally.)
Figuring out how to remote into the windows machine (the first application I tried left a bit to be desired and I found something that worked much better), resolving display issues (apparently Nvidia doesn't play well with Ubuntu and I have 2 graphics cards because I have 3 monitors), accidentally upgrading the OS to 20 (tequila was involved), how to copy files to and from my secondary drive from the windows machine.
Though, I don't think any of this is funny. Flag me for off-topic
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@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't think any of this is funny.
At least this bit was funny
our VPN only worked with IE
As for
Flag me for off-topic
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@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
STOP FLOODING THIS THREAD WITH UNFUNNY STUFF!
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@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
But OTOH, what I deeply despise about it is that it's a hodgepodge of everything mashed together.
They've made it a container for anything—except mail—office, but the integration is very quirky. Like there are several ways to link a document (on onedrive/sharepoint—the chats, channels and meetings are folders on sharepoint anyway) and depending on how you do it it tries to open inside teams (it's just a web browser, so the web versions just embed), in a browser and sometimes does not work at all.
Plus in neither case it is obvious that it is this file attached to that channel or whatever.
@TimeBandit said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Like the inability to select where to save a downloaded file.
Yeah, that is silly. You are probably not supposed to save files to the local machine anyway; it's all in the cloud now.
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't use the web version. But there is a front-end for my linux machine
That is a contradiction. The Linux version is just the web wrapped in Electron (the Windows one is basically too, though it has some additional little features).
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@loopback0 said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Gąska said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
STOP FLOODING THIS THREAD WITH UNFUNNY STUFF!
Could’ve sworn that was Blakey, though.
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@Bulb said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Karla said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
I don't use the web version. But there is a front-end for my linux machine
That is a contradiction. The Linux version is just the web wrapped in Electron (the Windows one is basically too, though it has some additional little features).
OK, I don't understand what is going on under the hood to have any strong opinion. It is convenient enough for me.