Posts by CivicMinded

To digital natives, Microsoft's IT stack makes Google's look like a model of sanity

Why keep a rejected meeting in your calendar?

As an expert, I get many invites I just reject outright. But I still want to be available to answer any questions (through a chat, or call-in as needed) that arise in said meeting. So for me, this is a frequent need. Your milage will vary, of course. But to be able to choose "Reject, but keep" would be nice.

And the part about forwarding invites as e-mails (but updates are not effectuated), that's a major issue.

Of course, my major gripe is that when a calendar invite has been sent out, any and every change — even just adding a single item to the agenda — generates a new invite that people must accept or reject. (I prefer to reserve people early and add itemised agendas later.)

The revolution will not be televised because my television has been radicalised

Several comments seem to miss the point.

Of course it would be *late* if the author had "only just noticed that TV isn't a substitute for education?". And of course everyone could just "1. Find the "Off" button". But first of all, a lot of us want to watch TV, buy TVs based on price & performance, and make minimal adjustments when we install it — then none for the next few years.

Therefor, it is a problem that these boxes get "smart", and (presumably) attempts to be fair and promote everyone/ everything equally. And to the crux of the matter: No simple way to turn that off.

After all, when most people program their remotes, they make a choice about priorities. We change the apps on the smart-ish TV to our taste. So it was rather new (at least to me) if TVs now activly promote something that the user makes an effort to avoid. And that will expose this out-there channel to a number of people who does not actively reflect on news sources. And, _please!_ not all TV news is equally bad! Most is stupid, some even too stupid to be manipulating, but some of it is evil.

(Myself, I bought the "only slightly smart" TV from a company that so far has avoided privacy scandals. So maybe I live in an old-fashioned bubble.)

Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions

Re: Why zoom? — Agreed, with caveat

Zoom is is head and shoulders above the other services we have used, unless a) Teams will do, and b) as long as you manage your security.

Small groups, competent users, regulars = Teams if you have it.

Large groups, lacking 21st century skills, new folks all the time = Zoom is easy, good quality, you can turn mics on/off, lock the meeting, use Waitingroom &c.

Only one of the security issues had any impact on us: FB-data on iPhone.

Then again, professional organisation, we knew what we did, we never imagined they actually had end-to-end encryption. (Neither did Cisco + Acano, which we had before.)

As always: Don't choose a tool because of reputation, but based on needs, support you get/ have to give ... the boring stuff.