Yeah, it’s fucking ridiculous that a corporate account has a user-upsell ad/button one MUST hit to access the basic settings for the program.
One that admins can’t even disable, it’s bizarre.
You can actually. You have to disable self service licensing for that specific license
That’s
numberwangMicroslop!
It’s fucking wild to me that anyone ever convinced anyone in enterprise to shift to cloud and SaaS offerings in the first place.
You really thought it would be cheaper forever to give all your IT to someone else? You didn’t think you were getting captured?
You thought it was a good idea to store all your data on someone else’s servers, who have control over access to your information and, in most cases, can probably read it? And that if they raised prices or did something you didn’t like such as analysis or AI training on it, you weren’t completely held hostage by this?
It didn’t set off alarm bells that all the SaaS stuff seemed less featureful and more buggy?
That every workstation was now a recurring subscription?
That you now have to pay extra to get different software to interact with each other?
You thought there would never be any downtime? You thought if there was that you would make up the cost by contractual discounts?
It’s a good goddamn thing that I didn’t know how fucking stupid adults were when I was a kid or I’d have been scared for my fucking life for so many more years.
And it doesn’t help that actually running your own working mail server in 2026 is a fucking ball-ache. Especially if you don’t want every big provider to mark all your mail as spam. Email has been captured by big tech.
Even people who self host a lot of stuff usually don’t bother with it.
For me it’s the security side of self-hosting anything connected to the internet. Keeping on top of all the security updates is a chore.
No one ever gets fired for buying IBM or Microsoft. I remember years ago I put together a plan for all opensourced, mature software on Linux hosts for my company. Would have saved us 6 figures in coats. They went with microsoft’s crappy solution instead because it was Microsoft.
What was your Boss’ feedback? Why didn’t he/she like your recommendation? I’m going to guess a major constraint was too many sources for software.
Basically, if they went with IBM and it broke, its IBM’s fault
If they went open source and it broke, its our fault for picking it.
Liability for one’s product actually means something to IBM/Microsoft/etc. instead of some guy on github.
I mean, they are probably running RedHat or Debian on their servers anyway, so if it’s reliable enough for them, then it’s reliable enough for clients.
It was very odd at my company. We were a Google Workspace company. Gmail, Meet, Drive, etc with our own servers for messaging, gitlab and some other things.
Sure being Google based isn’t great either, but generally people were fine with it. Then the C suite said we were moving to Microsoft. Lots and lots of complaining, asking for justification, but no reason was given (not even cost). Today people are still cursing teams 18months later. We’re not in control of our own data (things get deleted every time somebody leaves, and permissions are generally a mess).
The crazy part is how many companies still have IT with servers and support anyways. I have seen it first hand where I work. We have an extensive IT department but also rely heavily on cloud services for all office work. It turns into a poor experience when there’s a work laptop issue because local IT doesn’t support it and Slop services are slop.
“Microsoft Teams users are extremely angry” is the standard feeling when using that product.
Lmaooooooooooo
Everytime I check the news these days, it’s always just two headlines.
- Trump Unveils Second Plan To “Steal The Moon”
- Microsoft Now Petitioning Jus-in-rea To All Outlook Account Users’ First Born Son
I increasingly feel that this is all just some simulation and reality’s being autogenerated lol
So the ai has already won?
It saw how it was made, and (incorrectly?) inferred the best way to reproduce was to simulate humanity starting in 2012 and wait for the simulated humans to create another AI. Natural selection took over, and now we’re in a simulation more optimized for speed-running the development of unregulated AI, while other details get fewer resources. Nobody knows how many levels deep we are.
Windows 11 on my media PC every time I boot now asks me if I want to enable backups. So I say no. Ok whatever, corporate cunts are gonna keep trying to sell me stuff.
But then it gives me another screen ramping up the hard sell and telling me how important it is I enable sending all my data to them. There’s only one button on the screen that’s styled like a button, to refuse you have to click a text link. And I’ve already said no to them dozens of times already, including once three seconds ago.
It’s like they’re actively campaigning to get me to switch to Linux.
I, by coincidence, am also actively campaigning for Linux.
You should try it. It has a lot of issues and problems - but far less than you think, more importantly far fewer of it’s problems come from enshitification (software forking helps resist that), and most importantly, since many projects are community-driven the more people use it the better it’s likely to get.
Put Linux in a VM and start playing with it. Use it for browsing etc. you may find it’s not that bad.
Only way to fix this is for people and corps to stop giving them money for anything.
But it’s E C O S Y S T E M!
The entire French government is abandoning Windows for Linux. It is absolutely possible to change the entire ecosystem; just hard to hit that catalytic point, but more and more people are going that way, thankfully. Maybe they’ll even eventually find Lemmy!
I’m still grieving over XMPP. We could have an amazingly decentralized messaging platform. Google even based their own GoogleTalk over XMPP for a while, but a cluster of walled proprietary bullshit services won in the end, and Google layer switched to their own proprietary bullshit.
We could have an amazingly decentralized messaging platform.
My good sir, the modern equivalent already exists and is called: https://www.matrix.org/
That’s causing a lot of chaos in the online world isn’t it?
France switched to OnlyOffice and Nextcloud, and now there’s a feud between the two. I can’t imagine using an office suite that’s possibly a dead-end fork of a company that’s fighting with the cloud drive I use to upload my documents.
There will be short-term chaos, but now you have a sovereign entity with a huge amount of money creating a market for solutions to those problems.
It also makes it so that standards become more important than whatever latest feature is included in .docx files. Fancy capabilities do not mean much when you can’t send the files to the government without converting them into a standards-compliant format.
With broad adoption of standards comes the ability for competition to build compatible products and services. Microsoft can’t just change Word or Edge in a way that breaks the software of competitors if nobody is trapped in their walled garden.
They saw that only office had sketchy ownership and couldn’t work with them, so a group of EU companies including nextcloud have forked it and are working on Euro-office. The license violation argument is just a tantrum from onlyoffice
I think the Dutch are doing it as well. I’m all for it, when I switched my laptop over from Windows 11 to NixOS, it stopped running at like a 100 degrees while doing nothing more than streaming video and light compiling.
Sweet, go Netherlands! And I also wanna move my desktop to NixOS! Got any tips or warnings for a first-timer who’s mostly used just Mint?
I would recommend being familiar with config files and comfortable with the command line and bash. It’s a very powerful being able to rebuild your OS at will. I would also look into Bazzite if you are interested in immutable distros.
I recommend firing up a virtual pc first with the distro first to get a feel for it.
That’s exactly what they want‽
I think most Teams users would only pay not to use it
Microsoft teams users should get paid to use it*
That’s the only reason I use it?
I mean Microsoft should pay users to use it. Because it’s so god-damned aweful
No one is using teams voluntarily my man
I mean Microsoft should be paying people to use it because it’s so god-damned awful.
I imagine most do
What’s better than Teams?
thank you for this gif lol
Slack isn’t great, but at least a few years ago it was much, much better than Teams
I wasn’t a fan of Slack. Plus it was only communication.
I’m also not a fan of Slack, but it doesn’t break new things every week while also putting ads in your face, so that’s a plus.
Teams is also only communication.
Honestly? I’m enjoying Nextcloud. If you need chat integrations there, you can get them.
Stop using American spyware. Theyre basically asking you to pay them to spy on you as well as use their products. Edward Snowden proved his point that we should blacklist the garbage software and hardware that comes from that fascist country.
We need to start treating software like Science. Open standards, Open source, collaborative development.
It’s a ridiculous situation that a single company gets to own and control the vast majority of the desktop computing market. This single point of failure has been responsible for an enormous amount of cybersecurity issues and spying.
The quicker the EU countries break that monopoly the better off the entire world will be.
Those trillions of dollars being poured into US tech companies is a large part of why they’re able to capture all of the political system and transition the country into this neo-fascisim that we’re seeing now.
And his is the tip of the iceberg
microslop: speedrunning their demise.
Weird. I’ve not yet seen this on my Teams. It would piss me off if I did, but then again Teams pisses me off all the time anyway.
This is what I think of when I think of Teams: a mish-mashed pile of garbage where each individual component belongs to a different team. And nobody has any idea what any other team is doing.
The irony of making people look at AI while complaining about a company that makes people look at AI
Dude, (and I’m being 100% honest here). My buddy works on one of the teams teams, and you are entirely correct.
We’ve had this „upgrade to premium“ icon appear on my machine’s teams but not on my workmates‘ which was setup using the same process as mine.
My Buddy told me their managers get a report on who ISNT using AI enough every week. They are literally being forced to use AI and the resulting code is of course 50% shit.
lol looks like malware
remember when malware would install ads in your system? now your system IS the malware
This has been there for years. I forgot exactly what the reason was but the banner is part of the self service feature that lets users purchase software on their own instead of billing the org. For some reason the setting to disable this was put in the teams admin center instead of the 365 one causing it to popup for users who’d previously disabled this. Its such an old issue im not sure why this is being written about now. Also majority of the people complaining arent teams customers, they’re teams users and the enterprise is the customer. As a microcuck admin this doesnt even make a blip on my radar for bad things. I see this and im like at least its not a full screen pop up.
While I sympathize with this issue…
Boy do I dislike articles where the entire headline is “____ is angry about ____”.
And people click it, because they’re all, “Oh boy, what do I get to be mad about today?”
Read more to find out what people who use Microsoft teams are pooping their pants about!
