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    Carnival Boy

    @Carnival Boy

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    • RE: Work from Home - Computer setups

      It's kind of funny, when we all worked in offices there are loads of health and safety requirements to do with decent chairs, space, monitors at the right level. We did regular checks to make sure everyone was compliant. All good stuff - anything to prevent the pain and misery of things like back pain.

      Now we all work from home and some people are literally lying on their beds with a tiny laptop on their laps.

      I wonder if firms might get sued. I haven't heard of anything happening. Obviously when Covid is over, many people will continue to WFH, but firms aren't going to get away with this. I wonder how it will be dealt with.

      My niece is a trainee architect for a prestigious Swedish firm in London. The top bosses have all moved home and are now working in their enormous houses in beautiful Swedish countryside and living the dream whilst the lower ranked workers are working in their tiny, shared, rented flats in London. My niece spends nearly 24 hours a day in a tiny room that is her bedroom cum office. There is only room for a bed, she sleeps on it at night and works on it in the day. This is the reality of WFH for a lot of young people in major cities. I'm sure it's the same in New York, Paris or Hong Kong. Maybe in the long run people will move out of the cities, but I'm not convinced.

      My company are pretty good - basically telling people they will buy them whatever they need for home.

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    • RE: Work from Home - Computer setups

      2 monitors, keyboard and mouse at work, and 2 monitors, keyboard and mouse at home. Then just use my laptop wherever I am.

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    • RE: Working with SharePoint Online in Windows

      Thanks, I will give it a go and see if it fixes the issue.

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    • RE: Working with SharePoint Online in Windows

      Thanks. Sounds like the issue may be reading then, with local caching, rather than writing. Is it possible to turn local caching off?

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    • Working with SharePoint Online in Windows

      Can anyone explain to me the mechanics of what happens when I open a file stored in SharePoint Online using Windows Explorer?

      So, for example, I open a folder in Windows Explorer by browsing the path https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite/etc and from there I open an Excel spreadsheet.

      I believe it first downloads the file to a cache on my local machine, but I'm not sure where or how. When I make changes to the spreadsheet, it saves those to my local machine and a background process uploads the changed file back to SharePoint. Is that how it works?

      I really don't know.

      But I occasionally get issues where the file I open is a previous version and not the latest version, so I am assuming there is syncing going on and I'm suffering from sync timing errors. I suspect this issue only happens when I open the file from Windows Explorer, as I don't appear to have any issues when opening from within Teams using the "Open in App" Teams action, but I could be wrong.

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    • RE: Seekout: AI powered job search

      Is positive discrimination also illegal in the US then? What about the Rooney rule? I'm not sure what the rules are in Europe, but there are examples of legal positive discrimination, such as female only candidates in elections, and I believe in Denmark you have to employ a certain percentage of female executives.

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    • RE: Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020

      I don't like wall-mounting TVs at all. Don't you find them too high? Aren't you having to crane your neck upwards? When I'm lying on the sofa I like the telly to be at eye level, so just stand it on a TV cabinet.

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    • RE: Amazon Prime Day - Oct 2020

      Bought the wife and kids new Fire tablets to replace the tablets they got for Christmas 3 years ago which are now dog slow. Didn't really want to but they were half price. They use them for several hours a week so they're not bad value.

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    • RE: Defining the Hobby Business vs a True Business

      My uncle ran a successful hardware distribution business employing dozens of people for over 30 years. His motivation was to generate work, security, and happiness, for owner and employees. He could have been more profitable, but chose not to.

      I'll have to tell him he spent his life devoted to a hobby 🙂

      But then he was a socialist. Maybe we just think about business differently in Europe? Scott likes to label things, but I'm not sure it makes any difference.

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    • RE: 75 User Exchange On Prem vs. Office 365 Cost Comparison

      Plus, I'm not sure if Teams works with metadata. Which is the kind of thing that frustrates me a bit with Teams - its a front-end for SharePoint, but a hobbled front-end. Meaning you keep having to select "Open in SharePoint" to do anything complicated.

      But generally I find the advantages of "going all in" with Microsoft outweigh the disadvantages.

      I've also found Teams getting used more and more by companies compared with Zoom. At the start of the pandemic it was all Zoom.

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