I miss Google Chat, which had a mail notification icon on the popup window on your desktop (although that’s on phones now).
I also miss MSN Messenger.
We’re still using “Skype for Business” at work which feels very MSN Messenger.
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One of the lies Google said was that RSS was no longer a relevant technology… and then there was an explosion of podcasts using RSS.
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omg. my projects use that. it’s quite… terrible once you got used to teams.
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i actually miss the times when i used a lot of RSS. Many of my friends still do. most of them use news blur.
I stopped when bloglines shut down 
never found another solution quite so much to my liking. currently i have some Firefox plugin that consumes rss but i don’t really check it
We’ve had Teams for a while at this point and Skype is disappearing some time next year, but the muscle memory is strong.
I still find Skype useful for seeing where my team are given we’ve got a restricted version of Teams that doesn’t actually let us have teams.
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That’s amazing considering how much I hate Teams, although at work we use it for file storage as well as communication, for which it is absolutely horrible.
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We’ve been using it as file storage for this current project and that is really nothing one would call a “solution” but a crutch …
I like the video conferencing though and the chat.
The Skype at the other project… nobody there is using video and with all the remote work I really need to see people. And the non-persistent chats that send transcripts to outlook… horrible. No persistent channels for multiple people? Skype is so last decade. No actually its 00s. Reminiscent of ICQ …
I mean Teams is unable to remember where windows go, insists on opening the window where I can see the colleague I am talking to on the same monitor I am sharing and has very very weird administrative rights when someone takes over a task from someone else, you can’t just hand over the meetings associated with the task to that person. Nope. If the original organizer isn’t there … no chance to make any changes. (Maybe that changed since May when it was an issue). I have a ton of complaints about teams but it’s the best tool I know for the job.
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Finished watching Gundam: Requiem for Vengeance on Netflix last night. We enjoyed it.
The whole white demon is going to kill us all vibe was excellent.
Others disagree for reasons that I get, but don’t care enough to allow them to get in the way of watching giant mecha action.
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This is one I am looking forward to watching!
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We watched The Apprentice last night. Excellent villain origin story.
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I was sad about google+ for a long time. Not because I ever used it, but because google’s search engine used to have a nice intuitive syntax for its search terms whereby +foo meant that “foo” must be present, and -foo meant that foo must not be present. This also worked for phrases, so +"foo bar" and -"foo bar" meant the same things for the whole quoted phrase. This was very useful.
Then they created google+ and decided they couldn’t not have + be a special way of searching that; so they kneecapped their nice search syntax. The +foo syntax became "foo" which, as indicated, used to mean something different – so the changes meant that (AFAIK) there was no longer a convenient way to include search term phrases which didn’t necessarily need to be present. I guess you could probably still plug in boolean operators get a similar result, but it was an annoying loss of convenient functionality (all in service of something they subsequently abandoned).
I stopped using google for searching a long time ago, though, so it’s all moot to me at this point.
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I didn’t know thet! I used the “-xx” recently because I thought it was still a fundamental rule for searching, and it didn’t work so I blamed the changes with AI, had no idea they’d scrapped it that long ago.
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Amazing. Defending just 146 runs in the final innings, NZ have won the third test match (by 25 runs), becoming the first team to ever hand India a 0-3 test series whitewash at home.
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Season 2 of The Diplomat. It’s so, so good.
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I’ve watched this in the background while I was reading (my partner watches). Everyone has very serious trousers.
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Yeah - I was quite surprised that it finished in 6 episodes tho!
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Same. 6 episodes is not a “season”!
Love Allison Janney tho so glad she’s staying for next season
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Just before our Netflix ran out again we managed to finally watch the One Piece live action show after a colleague recommended it. I have never before watched the One Piece anime.
It was really fun and we enjoyed it so much that instead of going back to DisneyPlus for now, I made an account for CrunchyRoll 
Sadly, the colleague who I was going to badger for recommendations is on a 3 week vacation.
We’ve already watched about 8 episodes of One Piece (the anime). I am not sure what the best way to go about this would be. There are definitely enough changes between this and the live action show that I am not sure we can skip the first 100 episodes (I believe the final scene of the live action show must be episode 96: I checked the trope wiki for timeline stuff and besides spoilers–duh, my bad–I found this episode.
Before deciding to watch One Piece on Netflix we watched a few episodes of the Decameron but it was so high on the Fremdschämskala that I couldn’t keep going. The Office (in German Stromberg) has nothing on this. So One Piece really saved me from having to watch that–Decameron is not bad in many ways, quite hilarious at times, ridiculous but also a cringe-fest.
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