oh hey, that’s great! thank you!

our admins are regularly straight up fighting against this bs!

“where the fuck has this fucked off to now?? it was right here last month?!”

so glad I’m not doing MS administration…

this is the part that’s really frustrating:

i sometimes feel forced to use chatGPT (duck.ai) to simply search for Microsoft things, because search engines only return SEO garbage with the exact same content spammed across like a million “tech tips for beginners” sites…and the docs, as established, are pretty useless…

keep in mind: i fucking hats “AI”.

making me use it makes me not have anything to do with whatever you’re selling.

it’s getting progressively more impossible to simply use MS products, because the information you need to use them is so hidden away!

combine those two things and ta-da: that’s why all my stuff at home is running linux now.

Microsofts documentation is also increasingly just outright wrong:

if you spend enough time looking up things about their newer products like M365, defender, or azure, especially when it comes to scripting related to those, there’s a ton of simply outdated info on the official docs that makes it really difficult to figure out why your setup isn’t doing what it’s supposed to.

from changed variable names, to missing functions, to unexplained buttons, etc., etc.

the newer docs are straight up trash!

you’re better off searching around for forum posts or whatever, than using the official docs…

i mean…that certainly is an explanation, but it’s a shit strategy:

there are a lot of objectively false names for emojis, you can’t expect people to get used to that…

“eyeroll” for example is called “bored”…which makes absolutely no sense. (at least in german, maybe it’s less bad in english)

I don’t see that ever leading to vendor lock-in, just perpetual frustration…

the emojis would be fine, if they used standard naming schemes like everyone else does…but for some ungodly reason they don’t adhere to standard nomenclature, so good fuckin luck finding the one you’re looking for!

also: WHY is the shortcut for emojis a fucking parenthesis??? why isn’t it a colon like in damn near every other app???

this is the worst thing about teams:

it forces you to re-learn chat app standards that have been in place for well over a decade, and it does so for abso-fucking-lutely no good reason!