I really wish that Sony didn't go on a colossal moral hazard bender throughout the 2000s that caused their entire consumer electornics division barring PlayStation and Ericsson phones to go tits-up during the 2008 financial crisis. I was digging through old crates from a decade plus ago in a utility closet for a spare extension lead when I came across laptop chargers for now-defunct Sony Vaio laptops, a miniDV Sony camcorder, stuff along those lines. Fuck Panasonic, JVC, and Sharp: they were always the cheapo plasticky brands that we used because we had no better options. You shell out the premium for Sony back then, you were gonna get quality... at least once upon a time that was the case.
The really sad thing there is that they spun VAIO off into its own company, and they are still around and still making beautiful hardware, but none of it is available outside of Japan.
Whoever at Microsoft or Google thought that reaction emojis to emails is a good idea i want them publicly lynched.
Not only everyone at enterprise is using those gay ass HTML signature but now they passively aggressively react to me, which if you use a NORMAL email host, they just keep spamming you with emails like
It fucking clogs the discussion, makes everything unreadable and you have no clue where to reply to.
...and they were fucking expensive and usually only available from shady businesses like Jamster in subscription form, at least here in Germany.
MTV commercial breaks were full of their offers.
...and they were fucking expensive and usually only available from shady businesses like Jamster in subscription form, at least here in Germany.
MTV commercial breaks were full of their offers.
Video editing on phones is GOD-awful using the stupid ass touch-only controls and clunky and slippery interfaces, but short little clips sadly don't make too much sense to keep tossing between phone and comp just to overlay a few sentences.
I hate how there is the expectation anyone with a smartphone must either scan QR codes or download an app to do basic tasks when scanning the QR code or using the app takes more time than it would to do it manually.
I hate reactions in outlook. It’s fine when it’s a chat program like Teams. But when I’m deal with emails that pertains to my work, kind of unprofessional to reply back with a thumbs up.
I have some more complex opinions on this. Like yeah, on the one hand, I wholeheartedly agree on principle that an email application should not have chat-style reactions. Conversely? Outlook is complete and total rubbish through and through. Even before the "new" Outlook launched like last year or the year before where it's literally just Outlook Web but in a desktop app, the "old" Outlook was still a sluggish pain in the goddamn ass that could hardly do anything without devouring half your RAM while it struggles to synchronise your inboxes with Microsoft Exchange. I very specifically eschewed the Outlook desktop application for the entire time that I've used Outlook in favour of the web version because fuck it: 99% of my shit is basically living out of Microsoft Edge and pivoting between OneDrive, Teams, and Excel. Might as well add Outlook to that mix.
The "reactions" at my old job were novel, but the younger employees (myself included) basically used the "thumbs-up" as a quick and dirty way of saying "Yeah, I saw this, I acknowledge it, and it will be actioned ASAP." My old job had several of my teammates and I regularly going to the warehouse where cargo was stored specifically to take photos of the cargo as it arrives from the airport or the seaport before rapidly replying via Outlook Mobile to both the customer and the overseas export teams. Outlook Mobile these days is very much in line with Outlook Web, so reactions were commonplace.
Most of the time, it wasn't as simple as breaking the seal on the container or lifting up the door of the box truck bringing the cargo over, and taking pictures of the requisite pallets. Most of our shipments were consolidated, and we never liked hawking over the warehouse guys when they were already busting their asses rapidly getting everything out into the customs bonded area of the warehouse for further inspection via forklift and pallet jack. So it would take 20-30 minutes for an entire truck or an entire consolidation to be unloaded, but that was fine since we had dozens of shipments to take photos of regardless.
Let's say that while I'm downstairs waiting for all my shipments to get out of the box truck or the container, I get like 4 different emails from several other people I was working with earlier in the day. I'm already focused on one task, so I basically just "thumb-up" the emails via Outlook reactions to signal to my team leads (who were basically in my age bracket and already used Outlook Web over desktop Outlook the way management does) "hey so-and-so, thanks for forwarding this to me, I'll get to it." I take my photos of each shipment I'm working on, reply to the customer, overseas export, whoever else that I have the photos, and then rush back to my desk to properly action those items in a "professional" manner.
If I had to refocus the critique, I'd argue that Outlook really needs an "internal notes" section for every email thread instead of a "reaction." There are email clients that do this, but unfortunately, that's squarely in the realm of third party software that's in corporate IT's hands to authorise. Like... we ain't even allowed to use Mozilla Thunderbird over Outlook with our Microsoft Exchange accounts, so we damn sure ain't allowed to use a third-party email client that auto-groups emails into threads and gives us internal comments. It's either official web portal or official desktop application. Internal notes for every email thread would basically be substantial insofar as documenting stuff as it pops up. Like oh no, there's a puncture in the plastic surrounding Pallet #A6817 and Pallet #B7928 has a really nasty hole in the side. Note that, upload the pictures via internal comment, have that shit visible to leadership and then go to the ops manager's desk with my team lead to discuss the next course of action.
Know what's funny? Back in the day when that shit JUST came out, but wasn't impossible to unApple-y access I did that shit for business cards, but now? If I don't have a google-fucking-assistant shit in the phone, normal camera apps don't decode anymore.
The best story is that at one event, when you could get freebies by doing a survey via QR and I simply couldn't, I landed a hottie staff # so she could decode the damn link using her pleb-mobile and text it to mine. That was annual level of win over tech.
The sadder part? Then they magically start making more than their shitty ex-job unless they're utmost chuds.....
Income streams are fucking infinite in this crazy age of working to ship your toilet paper to your bosses.
The really sad thing there is that they spun VAIO off into its own company, and they are still around and still making beautiful hardware, but none of it is available outside of Japan.
VAIO is overrated Computer-Japan troon'cordstone. Their are many other companies that made simmilar hardware, and even in their prime, all of their interesting stuff stayed in Japan. I think that the reason that VAIO is remembered over other companies, such as Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Samsung, for being so wacky and experimental n' shiet is because unlike them, VAIO (for the most part) died.
I use a Garmin Instinct Solar, LCD screen, waterproof, solar charging. Turn off the bluetooth/phone features and it lasts a few months, 2 weeks with them on. It's awesome.
VAIO is overrated Computer-Japan troon'cordstone. Their are many other companies that made simmilar hardware, and even in their prime, all of their interesting stuff stayed in Japan. I think that the reason that VAIO is remembered over other companies, such as Fujitsu, Panasonic, and Samsung, for being so wacky and experimental n' shiet is because unlike them, VAIO (for the most part) died.
But hey, you can get B2B emails with embedded pictures, papyrus font and purple background. Sometimes I am amazed on the incredimail tier 90s grandma emails you can get in a business setting.
O M G now there's a name I haven't heard in probably 25 years. You'd more often than not find BONZI Buddy running on the same machine, too, and don't forget the half dozen IE toolbars. It was always frustrating when someone would send you an email with a crap-ton of incredimail customizations and it'd never display properly in Outlook Express or AOL.
It's actually pretty amazing how much bloatware and straight up malware was floating around the 'net back in the late 90s-early 00's.
