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Handsomedan
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  #3364217 15-Apr-2025 10:41
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shk292:

 

Westpac hold music.  As well as being twice as loud as the menu audio, it sounds like it has been recorded from an AM car radio that is driving through hilly terrain on the edge of station coverage.  Is this a subtle way to make people drop from the queue?

 

 

Westpac Insurance hold music was the absolute worst! 
We spent over two years dealing with them and it coincided with the massive volumes of calls caused by the Auckland floods. 

 

I spent hours listening to that music over that time. Still haunts my dreams. 





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  #3364233 15-Apr-2025 11:09
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I'm dealing with a U.S. government agency.

As part of DOGE, they are no longer taking phone calls and require a login.

Only problem is they require a US address, US phone number, and submitting "supplemental" ID's that have a Social Security Number printed on it.

I submitted a helpdesk ticket for a callback, which was hard to find, and replied to an automated email with lots of security questions.

I got an automated email back that they were overwhelmed, and couldn't make any return phone calls.

It gave a vague response that that will eventually call me, but if I hadn't heard anything in 3 months to follow up.

Thanks Elon and DOGE.

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  #3364234 15-Apr-2025 11:15
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Buckchoi:

 

"Outlook (new)" recently received an update that changed the name to "Outlook".

 

Quicksteps don’t migrate from classic to new





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  #3364395 15-Apr-2025 20:43
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MadEngineer:

 

Buckchoi:

 

"Outlook (new)" recently received an update that changed the name to "Outlook".

 

Quicksteps don’t migrate from classic to new

 

 

At work I used the "new" Outlook for all of 10 minutes, before reverting back to the old layout.





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  #3364446 15-Apr-2025 21:04
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I lasted about two. IT lasted about twenty, then pushed out an update to get rid of it for everyone.


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  #3364521 15-Apr-2025 22:40
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MadEngineer:

 

Buckchoi:

 

"Outlook (new)" recently received an update that changed the name to "Outlook".

 

Quicksteps don’t migrate from classic to new

 

 

PST archives aren't supported either ..


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  #3364526 15-Apr-2025 23:56
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kingdragonfly: I'm dealing with a U.S. government agency.

Thanks Elon and DOGE.

 

I've cut all relations with the US authorities to zero. I let my American pilot's licence expire. The only vested right I still have there is to operate a non-commercial radio system on US soil, at sea or in the air for the rest of my life - including space stations. This right dates back to times in the last millennium when America was just such a land of opportunitiy. (Now one could speculate what that would be good for - future independent non-commercial Canada or Greenland pirate radio maybe?). 🤣

 

Back then, it was a great thing to be in the States, California, Arizona, ... Today, apart from wanting to visit friends, nothing attracts me there anymore. 🙁

 

 





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  #3364543 16-Apr-2025 08:25
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The ‘Learn about this picture icon’ randomly activating from behind a Remote Desktop session.  Ah well, good bye random pretty pictures from around the world  

 

Any software that covers up what your actively working on annoys me no end. 





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Tinkerisk:

 

Back then, it was a great thing to be in the States, California, Arizona, ... Today, apart from wanting to visit friends, nothing attracts me there anymore. 🙁

 

 

And now you have the added risk of deportation without trial to a prison in El Salvador. 





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  #3364970 17-Apr-2025 10:41
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My wife told a workmate of hers that we’re getting solar panels (now installed) and was immediately asked what are we going to do for power when it’s dark.

 

I mean i should be posting this in the silly joke thread but I’m hearing others saying they’ve had similar responses like being scoffed at while asking about the price of the batteries. 

Clearly it’s not common knowledge how grid tied solar works.  There needs to be an education on this so we can have more uptake 





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  #3364989 17-Apr-2025 13:16
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Met Office and the weather warnings, we have had one for Rotorua for heavy rain from 10.am Thursday so far not a drop of rain and just a little wind , disappointed as i love a good storm.





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  #3364991 17-Apr-2025 13:26
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No rain in Whakatane either, although we're only under a "watch", not a warning. Apparently Tauranga got a bit of rain this morning though.


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  #3364995 17-Apr-2025 13:41
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Behodar:

 

No rain in Whakatane either, although we're only under a "watch", not a warning. Apparently Tauranga got a bit of rain this morning though.

 

 

Windy and rainy in Auckland for the last 24hours. Just a stormy day of no particular note I would have thought but based on media reports you'd think we were in the middle of a catastrophe.

 

 


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  #3365000 17-Apr-2025 14:07
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This one certainly isn't scaring me after living through the Gold Coast one last month!


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  #3365009 17-Apr-2025 14:48
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johno1234: Windy and rainy in Auckland for the last 24hours. Just a stormy day of no particular note I would have thought but based on media reports you'd think we were in the middle of a catastrophe.

 

 

You might see your neighbour's trampoline fly past but that's usual for Auckland, not a catastrphe until it hits someone.


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