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Thankfully this “update” shouldn’t affect me too much. We already have well established guidelines and schedules for remote work.

That being said, I feel like complaining about Teams. Who else is frustrated by its unusually short idle timer? Setting my status to “Away” after only five minutes just makes me look bad. There are definitely managers who somehow think that an 8 hour workday actually means 8 hours of continuous activity. Why can’t this be changed or configured to some other span of time? I wouldn’t complain about 15 minutes.

I got around this by downloading a program called caffeine. There are some other workarounds like preparing to start a fake call, or by entering a PowerPoint presentation and then alt-tabbing away from it.

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> I feel like complaining about Teams

Brother, there is not enough alcohol in the world.for this conversation.

I saw a post remarking that Microsoft had instituted a return-to-office policy

The jab being something to the effect of "imagine being the group that built a tool to help people work remotely and then it sucks so hard everyone has to come back into the office anyway"

A friend who works internally then remarked to me that apparently the person leading Microsoft's AI efforts cried and whined hard enough that his org was allowed to "use Slack instead"

Really the people I feel for are the MSN Messenger engineers. They built something beautiful nearly 30 years ago and watched Microsoft ruin it, kill it with another product they had already ruined (Skype) and then bury the whole lot by building that Electron monstrosity over their unmarked graves

> Thankfully this “update” shouldn’t affect me too much. We already have well established guidelines and schedules for remote work

Not yet. Whenever you feel “this doesn’t affect me” about anything, just pause and think “if my situation was different, would I feel differently about it?”. If the answer is yes, you should react the same way as if you’re affected by it.

Don’t get me wrong, I think this is a bad thing. Microsoft has really ticked me off lately, and I lament the fact that there’s really nothing I can do to change this. Microsoft doesn’t really listen to feedback, and when they do, they tend to just delay the rollout until after the controversy has died down (Recall).

I built a usb mouse jiggler. The off the shelves ones are probably detectable via their PID/VID.

There are some that are wall-powered and have an actual physical spinning disk that moves your mouse around.

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