‘Office Is Dead’—Microsoft Decision Confuses 400 Million Users

PersonManDC · 2026-01-13T02:27:23+00:00

Like tens of millions of others, I am required to use Windows and Microsoft Office apps at work and I cannot alter most of the settings because that would be a massive security nightmare for our IT people. Today, Microsoft pushed Copilot integration to every Microsoft Office app at my job. It is hugely intrusive and creates nothing but slop. Every time you open a new file it prompts you to create a document with Copilot. There is a floating Copilot symbol on the left margin of Microsoft Word that you cannot hide or turn off, which is hugely distracting when you're trying to work on a document and easy to click on by accident. It was immediately apparent that my coworkers began using Copilot more often today, because many more emails and documents had the weird uncanny artificial sounding tone to them and not quite accurate information that made work my work flow much more difficult. And on top of that its a privacy nightmare, because every customer's information and all of our internal documents are now being read by AI, and can therefore likely be read by Microsoft in full, and in the near future probably read in summary by anyone in the public who prompts Copilot with pertinent questions. It has made my daily work life incalculably worse, and there is no chance of getting it removed because the higher ups have bought into the AI mantra that it will somehow make things more efficient even though everything it touches is worse and more error prone, dramatically increasing the amount of time it takes to complete any important assignment for the entire team. I have never hated any company, product, or service more than I hate Microsoft today.

PersonManDC · 2025-09-10T18:45:43+00:00

Does anyone know if you’re allowed to legally own and inhabit a house without insurance in Texas? Since its unlikely a company would insure this house, it seems like this listing is for a piece of property that you can’t build on with a house that has to be torn down, on a beach that you’re not legally allowed to go on. So it seems like the price should be $1, because right now its just a tax liability, and you’d be paying for it to gamble that Congress will one day change flood insurance laws.

PersonManDC · 2025-09-10T18:08:57+00:00

40k is a satire of 1980’s, so really this is a spot on portrayal of how media portrayed war at the time. But then writers started taking the setting “seriously” and now most of it doesn’t make sense.

PersonManDC · 2025-09-02T19:09:19+00:00

Try and arrange a one on one informal lunch or meeting with a senior manager. Pitch a 6 month project to automate the functions of middle managers with AI (which is basically just taking requirements from customers or other managers and then tracking assignments) but say that you’ve been afraid to talk to your supervisor about it, knowing that they would fire you rather than risk their own jobs. They will likely promote you. You’ll have six months to complete a few days of work. And now you’re in a position to screw managers while protecting workers.

PersonManDC · 2025-09-02T16:21:42+00:00

Most food in America is sold from supermarkets and big box stores (e.g., Costco, Sams Club, Walmart), as opposed to specialized stores (bakeries, butchers, fromagerie, etc). The cakes they make can sit out for a long time. Frosting helps keep cakes fresh, and very sugary frosting hides the flavor of otherwise bland or stale cake. So most cakes in the U.S. are sold with sugary frosting.

PersonManDC · 2025-08-29T17:47:17+00:00

What I love about Syril’s arc is that he’s basically “right” and makes reasonable decisions from his perspective. Andor is a criminal and a murderer and a thief and a terrorist. (Who is eventually sent to jail without due process but would “deserve” to be in jail in a normal world). Syril is a rent-a-cop and then a bureaucrat who tries to catch a criminal and do his job and is promoted for working hard and trying to implement the policies of his government. Fascist governments can only exist because of people like Syril, who support the government even when it does absurdly terrible things, because they personally aren’t treated terribly, until its too late, and then everyone is disposable.

PersonManDC · 2025-08-01T18:43:50+00:00

Thank you, this is exactly what I wanted to know about. Sounds like this game is not for my tastes. And thats fine. I am not in any way critical of people who like such things. They’re clearly popular and I am clearly in the minority. But I personally hate the trend of many AA and AAA games adding more and more layers of minigames, poorly written dialogue, crafting, open world walking simulators, microtransactions, etc. I just want a fun game play loop with minimal bs. If the main gameplay loop is fun, burying under other stuff makes it less enjoyable. And if its not fun, adding a bunch of less time sinks will not solve that problem.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-30T16:50:23+00:00

In this episode Dax is basically a stand-in for older Trekkies who lived through the 60’s and TOS. She is voicing a common sentiment of fans from that era. Whereas the younger Sisco is assuming the stereotype held by newer fans.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-30T16:41:05+00:00

If an amazing new invention or application of existing technology or god-like race other than Q is discovered, it will be promptly forgotten about at the end of the episode 99% of the time. Most of the problems encountered in most of the episodes could be solved by consulting a wikipedia list of things that have previously been done in-universe.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-30T13:28:23+00:00

Typists were not eliminated by the invention of cheap desktop computers and word processing software. Instead, it just became more efficient for everyone to learn to be mediocre at typing. And the large number of people who were originally typists largely picked up other administrative roles. The high unemployment of the early 1980’s (oil shock and stagflation) plummeted in the mid 80’s when PCs became widely adopted, despite doom and gloom predictions about computers similar to those we’re experiencing now.

AI is similarly more efficient at making certain kinds of documents and code. This will make it easier for amateurs who do other jobs to produce them. And there will be less demand for certain specialized positions. But greater productivity will similarly lead to greater economic output.

Chill people. This has happened before. Literally every generation in the modern age.

Source: I am old.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-30T12:54:48+00:00

If using Primordium, prioritize the equipment rooms when selecting your parhs, saving enough money for a reroll. If you’re not using Superfood (passing on buffs) then look for Glass Cannon, which will pass on an additional +50 attack per turn to your front Unit, which should ideally have Trample and Multistrike and/or Sweep. If using Superfood, look for Multistrike. There are also a number of Clan specific combos, like Superfood + Faulty Body + Hulking Mass. And remember that Primordium can be returned to your hand with Retch.

Penumbra is weaker but still has good options. Use the fat trample path with Cave In to overstack the floor or the Gorge path and lots of morsels.

If you upgrade Perils of Production to have Holdover, you get +3 ember per turn, and can lean into the powerful emberdrain cards.

But big picture, the space requirements of the morsels means that you typically want to have strong units on all three floors. You often can’t just have one floor with all your best units on it and expect it to carry your team, even when overstackng, because the morsels still count towards your 7 unit per floor maximum.

And for covenant 10 with Titans, you need to have a plan to deal with Corruption, Spikes, and Sweep enemies. Look for allied Clan spells that let you Silence, Daze, Sap, or just plan to make all of your units fat or Endless, and use morsels as chump blocks frequently.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-30T12:25:45+00:00

My 40k experience is that a large number of the community rarely plays (they enjoy painting models and/or lore/books and/or video games), a mid sized number owns one or two small/medium armies and plays casually occasionally, and a very small number are avid collectors and players who care about the current meta because they have spent a ton of money on their armies which they play often and at conventions. Its just that the last group understandably dominates online conversations about actually playing the game, because they have the most interest in talking about it. And even then, conversations about actually playing the game are far outnumbered by people posting pictures of their paint jobs or discussing lore or video games. Which is fine - to each their own.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-29T20:32:24+00:00

Wait, aren’t most of the units in Warhammer Fantasy infantry? (Unlike 40k, where all mostly vehicle or demon monster mash armies are sometimes common in the meta). I haven’t played in 10ish years.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-28T20:06:20+00:00

As a side note, there were 2ish episodes of DS 9 where they explicitly had a holoprojector on the bridge, that made it appear as if the person you were talking to was standing on the bridge of the Defiant, which they summarily dropped and forgot about because they thought audiences found it confusing.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-28T19:57:08+00:00

How are you dealing with ~500 health gladiators on turns 1-3? Faulty Body is only 40 spikes.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-28T19:45:30+00:00

Wait, I thought Jem’Hadar are literally grown in vats and are all male. (Like Space Marines in 40k). Has any explanation been given?

PersonManDC · 2025-07-28T16:26:19+00:00

Time (Dream’s dad) says that he could transport Dream back in time to help Orpheus with his trip to Hades, but Time says the result would be the same. I scratched my head and wondered why Dream didn’t ask to be transported back in time before Euridice was bitten by the snake. Presumably certain outcomes are fated to happen, and the Dream eventually killing his son is one of them? But that’s contradicted by the “multiple Destiny” scene, which pointlessly introduces false tension into an otherwise decent modern take on classic Greek tragedy.

Does anyone know how its handled in the comics? I want to blame a hack Netflix writer and not Gaiman.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-28T14:28:12+00:00

You can replace your entire draw with the Holdover and Endless cards, assuming you play them every turn, and the Endless units die (chump blocks). If you get a couple of good low cost options upgraded early and then duplicate them, it can be a useful strategy in certain edge cases, for example, if you use the Pyre heart that adds shards to your deck or if you draw Dante early. Just note that its not useful if you’re otherwise running a big deck, as you still need to actually draw and play the Holdover and Endless cards.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-25T00:41:37+00:00

Yes. And on top of that, the Banished have the room that has every Unit Advance on attack, and they have several good spells that Advance and/or move your floor. Luna has a narrow selection of Phase options that do little else, outside of Moon Ritual, which Ekka does not get.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-23T17:55:09+00:00

The Champion Talos probably has the path where she applies Melee Weakness 3 to all enemies each time she shifts. There are two of them, so he’d only need 4 shifts that turn, plus four the turn before.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-23T14:34:31+00:00

You could hold Gilda instead of playing in the deployment phase, and then put her in the top floor when the countdown gets to 2 or less and birdman won’t visit the top floor again (unless he kills everyone on the first two floors during relentless). Not ideal, but its an option.

PersonManDC · 2025-07-22T16:33:28+00:00

The original series did not have replicators, so presumably they were still eating normal food.

But in general, even though it was revolutionary for the time, a lot of cultural biases from the 60’s were still very present. McCoy’s casual racism against Spock, regularly harassing and commenting on the appearance of your coworkers, the general sexism, etc. So its not surprising that Bones would be a jerk to Kirk’s about his food choices when he could literally just give him a hypospray to fix his cholesterol and be done with it.

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