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  #3504350 19-Jun-2026 09:14
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Me: clicks Reply on a Teams message.
Teams: this is a perfect time to pop up a random lecture about how to change your settings!




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  #3504353 19-Jun-2026 09:16
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Behodar:

 

Me: clicks Reply on a Teams message.
Teams: this is a perfect time to pop up a random lecture about how to change your settings!

 

 

This morning: how to configure Copilot in Teams to always accept your boss's meeting requests...

 

Fark off!





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  #3504449 19-Jun-2026 13:00
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freitasm:

 

This morning: how to configure Copilot in Teams to always accept your boss's meeting requests...

 

Fark off!

 

 

Hey, boss! No agenda - no meeting!  😁

 

And Copilot, if you're bored, find out which of my data is being leaked to Redmond. 🤣





     

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  #3504490 19-Jun-2026 14:15
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I was going to say Microsoft, for removing the option to delete auto-suggested email addresses.  But I see they have bought it back.





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  #3504492 19-Jun-2026 14:17
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freitasm:

 

This morning: how to configure Copilot in Teams to always accept your boss's meeting requests...

 

Fark off!

 

 

50/50 chance with my boss that she forgets about the meeting anyhow 😆





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  #3505373 23-Jun-2026 09:31
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Not design but bug. 

 

Microsoft is on a crusade for better "quality" and "security".

 

So... I read about this bug a couple of days ago. If you empty the recycle bin and there are multiple files, it will just ask "Do you want to delete [x] files?"

 

But if there's just one there, it shows the underlying 8.3 name, instead of the full file name.

 

It happened to me today.

 

It was introduced with the latest "quality" update.

 





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  #3505426 23-Jun-2026 12:12
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Restarted the Windows-based laptop. Waited five minutes for it to "calm down".

 

With no other applications running (no browser, email client or office apps), how can you explain this much CPU for nothing useful for me, the end user?

 

Note I took a photo because I wanted to capture just Windows doing... nothing, without adding anything to the mix, not even the screen capture app.

 

The slop is too much.

 





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  #3505431 23-Jun-2026 12:24
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Windows 11 lies anyway. The other day I had the fan going at full tilt and the "Performance" tab showing something like 97% CPU usage, while the "Details" tab showed System Idle Process at about 96%.


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  #3505455 23-Jun-2026 13:43
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Thanks, Xero for not telling me anything useful (the NZBN link goes to my company):

 





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  #3505459 23-Jun-2026 13:53
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freitasm:

 

Thanks, Xero for not telling me anything useful (the NZBN link goes to my company):

 

 

 

That sounds like the supplier's problem.





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  #3505460 23-Jun-2026 14:02
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MikeAqua:

 

freitasm:

 

Thanks, Xero for not telling me anything useful (the NZBN link goes to my company):

 

 

That sounds like the supplier's problem.

 

 

If Xero isn't going to give me any useful information, I'd rather not be contacted at all.





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  #3505486 23-Jun-2026 15:42
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Shared a CSV file on my computer via OneDrive (approved method per IT). The recipient sees it as an XLSX file. It's still a CSV on my device. So somehow OneDrive is mysteriously converting the file to XLSX and doing God-knows what transformations... 


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  #3505608 23-Jun-2026 17:49
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I had a CSV file with steam locomotive wheel arrangements in one column, e.g."2-6-2".

 

All nicely in quotes etc.

 

Excel and maybe one other app insisted on converting this to a date on import.


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  #3505614 23-Jun-2026 18:44
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freitasm:

 

Restarted the Windows-based laptop. Waited five minutes for it to "calm down".

 

With no other applications running (no browser, email client or office apps), how can you explain this much CPU for nothing useful for me, the end user?

 

Note I took a photo because I wanted to capture just Windows doing... nothing, without adding anything to the mix, not even the screen capture app.

 

The slop is too much.

 

 

Open resource monitor, change to the Disk tab and sort by Total B/sec.  This should give you an indication of what's going on.





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  #3505615 23-Jun-2026 18:45
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At this point I don't really care for whatever is going on. It shouldn't.





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