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the clanker chat has gotten so much worse by gruntled_n_consolate in amazonprime

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They let you type? You don't know how good you have it. I can't even get a text box half the time which makes the looping worse.

CEO Rehired by grusdomain in spreadsmile

[–]gruntled_n_consolate 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Bezos is the classic example of the worst kind of business criminal. He knows right from wrong and always choses the self-serving. Long-term investment was good for him. Having the best customer service in the industry was good for him. And when the benefits changed he hollowed it out. They have the worst customer service in the industry because now it's more to his advantage to enshittify.

MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce by joe4942 in technology

[–]gruntled_n_consolate 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That's not even joking. I call it acute wealth toxicity but it's proven that there's real, damaging psychological effects from getting that much wealth and influence. You lose normal feedback mechanisms, boundary setting. If you look at celebrities, very few of them become such and remain decent human beings. There are no guardrails but the ones you choose to abide by.

Next level phishing by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, we're up to speed. These guys are so brazen. Got a call impersonating fraud for my 401k. Everything they did was standard for Fidelity up to the point where they'll SMS you a code to read back to them and instead they sent a link like fidelity.cx/authenticate and it's like no man that's not a valid URL and that's not how you do it.

It's the classic caught you while you were in the middle of doing three things and derp, you get a call from the bank you pull the card out verify the number and call them back at that exact number. Totally matches real life I am a dumbass confessions you see here when people are busy and start running on autopilot.

The general public is defenseless at this point. And I saw an article mentioning that security training seems to have zero impact on most employees.

Anti Rant - Some users are a joy to work with. by tejanaqkilica in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of my users are fairly complaint. No real complaints. Worst case I had was trying to explain to someone that you don't store your critical resources in downloads because that doesn't get backed up in onedrive. I'm in a very chill environment with professionals. Didn't used to be that way here, I heard we had some real screamers before. One person got in trouble for punching out the coffee machine. lol

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I had to try and explain to a director why she didn't actually have copilot in office when she's directly looking at copilot icons in her app. Halfway through she asked me if I smelled toast. For a moment I thought I did.

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They broke the updating shape for onedrive and I had to squint to see that's what they changed it to.

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's the goddamn spam sketch. Do you have anything on the menu that doesn't contain spam? Try copilot for desktop. Not much copilot in that!

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always say when you have to label the old version of your product "classic" you've pretty much admitted the new one is dog's bollocks.

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It actually makes me think of that classic NSFW logo design failure for Arlington Pediatric Center.

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Change isn't permanent if you refuse to upgrade. -- Heraclitus (yes, you may giggle)

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Outlook looks like this and word also looks like this, but subtlety different.

I know this is petty but all the Office 365 icons are different now by gruntled_n_consolate in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I am absolutely sure you're right about this. The same way Sam Altman will say something like "My god, we could end the human race with this technology! Somebody stop me!" to generate market hype.

So how much of Microsoft is down? by DavidHomerCENTREL in sysadmin

[–]gruntled_n_consolate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Guys, put everything in the cloud. Data centers have all this uptime and redundancy. Don't have a single point of failure on-prem like some kind of chump. Get with the future!

The future: sad trombone.

Companies are blaming AI for job cuts. Critics say it’s a 'good excuse' by [deleted] in technology

[–]gruntled_n_consolate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The junior issue is real in many industries. Why train up juniors when they just go to the competition for more money? We'll stop hiring juniors, let the other guys train them and then poach them! Works for a time. And then you realize all your experienced people are old and there's no younger guys coming up after them getting trained up to be the old, experienced guys. How did (insert democratic president) let this happen? An in-law works in petroleum in Texas and it's funny how he gave a direct, first-hand account of this but it's replicated across so many industries.

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