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#3474417 27-Mar-2026 14:13

Microsoft Teams, which decides to auto-correct your spelling even though you've disabled that in the OS. This even occurs inside quotes. If I'm quoting someone then I want to quote what they actually said, not what Teams would prefer they said!

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#3474426 27-Mar-2026 14:28

Behodar:

Microsoft Teams, which decides to auto-correct your spelling even though you've disabled that in the OS. This even occurs inside quotes. If I'm quoting someone then I want to quote what they actually said, not what Teams would prefer they said!

Yes. About quotes, sometimes when posting a press release there are typos or something that should be different inside an attributed comment, but I always keep it. It's a quote after all.

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#3474593 28-Mar-2026 08:16

freitasm:

Yes. About quotes, sometimes when posting a press release there are typos or something that should be different inside an attributed comment, but I always keep it. It's a quote after all.

It makes me sic.

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#3474914 29-Mar-2026 11:41

iOS is so well-designed that you can't use the orange flight mode toggle because there's a modal window in the way telling you that flight mode is enabled. I would also argue that since it's prose, it shouldn't have every other letter capitalised.

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#3475818 31-Mar-2026 08:23

I feel like I'm monopolising this thread a bit...

"Error doing blah. See https://docs.example.com/errors/ID1234"

"Excellent," I think, "a page detailing this specific error." I should have known better. That URL just redirects to their home page.

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#3475844 31-Mar-2026 08:51

Behodar:

I feel like I'm monopolising this thread a bit...

"Error doing blah. See https://docs.example.com/errors/ID1234"

"Excellent," I think, "a page detailing this specific error." I should have known better. That URL just redirects to their home page.

They should have just labeled the page "https://docs.example.com/errors/ID10T" instead. ;-)

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#3478589 7-Apr-2026 08:06

I got an automated email from Microsoft over the weekend saying that I have "recommendations" in the Entra admin centre. I don't have access to the Entra admin centre.

No, it's not phishing.

Edit: It turns out that I actually do have access, although our IT department has never actually told me that. If I log into Azure first, then it lets me log into Entra.

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#3478595 7-Apr-2026 08:53

Windows 11 has two different places for defining the "power mode" or "power plan", with different user interface designs... one does not change the other, and it's not possible to tell which is actually applied or what the difference between these settings is.

I can't work out why there are two different interfaces and two different settings for what is seemingly the same thing. Would an average person be able to work this out? Would my dad? Absolutely not.

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#3478598 7-Apr-2026 09:05

cddt:

Windows 11 has two different places for defining the "power mode" or "power plan", with different user interface designs... one does not change the other, and it's not possible to tell which is actually applied or what the difference between these settings is.

I can't work out why there are two different interfaces and two different settings for what is seemingly the same thing. Would an average person be able to work this out? Would my dad? Absolutely not.

That sounds a lot like Windows design to me. I have encountered this kind of thing more times than I want to remember. I don't have a specific example offhand, but I have certainly run into it more than once. Very confusing when trying to turn something off that won't turn.

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#3479303 8-Apr-2026 18:09

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#3479311 8-Apr-2026 18:25

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#3479595 9-Apr-2026 21:14

I just fat-fingered something on my Mac and all the windows flew off the screen in a puff of animation. Do you think they hooked the Esc key up to get them all back again?

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#3479611 10-Apr-2026 06:00

Behodar:

I just fat-fingered something on my Mac and all the windows flew off the screen in a puff of animation. Do you think they hooked the Esc key up to get them all back again?

I have done that on my wife's Mac and for the life of me could not retrieve the disappeared windows...

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#3479614 10-Apr-2026 06:57

After I stopped mashing keys I realised that Cmd-Tab would at least restore a single app. It actually brought all of them back.

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#3479927 10-Apr-2026 18:26

🤬Microsoft is deprecating the built in notifications from SharePoint & suggests I use PowerAutomate going forward.

Thx M$ for suggesting an inferior replacement. Not only is the notification from myself instead of from SharePoint, but there also is no relevant detail in the PowerAutomate notification (bottom) compared to the SharePoint notification (top)

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