Yeah, it has gotten better since a year or so ago, but it still falls quite a bit short of Slack. Slack can do snippets or not, it’s up to you.

And yeah, it’s nice that it’s getting better, especially since I’m forced to use it for work (and interviews, where bad code handling sucks).

Make it $0.01. No need to waste too much money.

Agreed.

I hate Twitter’s format though, so Mastodon isn’t interesting at all to me. I really like the Reddit setup where discussion is around a presented topic (whether a link or a text post), instead of the Twitter/Mastodon format where you follow general topics and people. I don’t care about individuals, I care about ideas, and Reddit/Lemmy seem to distill ideas around topics I care about better than Twitter/Mastodon. However, both Lemmy and Reddit tend to encourage echo chambers, which I strongly dislike, hence why I’m working on something else.

BlueSky seems like Twitter 2.0, so I’m just as uninterested as I ever was in Twitter and Mastodon.

Yup. Here’s what I did:

0. recommend others not vote for him in 2016
1. didn’t vote for him in 2016
2. avoided TruthSocial and other nonsense during his first term
3. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2020
4. didn’t vote for him in 2020
5. continued to avoid TruthSocial
6. encouraged friends and family to not vote for him in 2024
7. didn’t vote for him in 2024

See a pattern?

the wisest move is to hoard cash

I disagree, market timing fails more than it succeeds. The better bet IMO is to diversify your investments. When one bubble pops, you’ll have assets in other sectors/regions/etc that aren’t in a bubble and get the investment dollars from people fleeing the bubble.

Warren Buffett hoarding cash doesn’t mean you should hoard cash. He’s hoarding cash because he’s a sophisticated investor with a long track record of being able to find good deals, and he sometimes buys entire companies outright, and having a large cash balance makes that a lot easier. He also frequently funnels that money into stock buybacks instead of leaving it in cash. He doesn’t know if the market will crash next year on in a decade, because as you said, the market can remain irrational.

Do what Warren Buffett says, not what he does: buy and hold a broad market index fund (he recommends the S&P 500).

That’s what I’m doing. I’m rebalancing my investments more regularly because I do expect this temporary run-up to drop, but I’m unwilling to try to time the market. I have a target US/international ratio, and I’m making sure that’s correct (my US portion has grown faster than international). I have also decided to pull the trigger on a small-cap value tilt after watching some good videos by Ben Felix, so I’ve been completing that transition as well. I intend to keep this portfolio for >10 years (probably through retirement, but we’ll see what happens when there’s new research).

Yup. I’m also not super happy with Lemmy, but I’m too stubborn to go back. Meanwhile, I’m building my own rendition of Reddit, which will probably have the same problems, but at least I’m making an effort.

If something genuinely good shows up, I’ll go there. But BlueSky ain’t it, so here I stay.

My kids love them for some reason, I think they’re an eyesore. To each their own, but even if I liked how they look, there’s no way I’m paying that much for one.

I just started Lair of the Clockwork God and I think it’s definitely worth a look. You play as two characters, one who is “point and click” (can’t jump, only move and interact) and the other is a platformer (can jump, can’t interact). It’s pretty interesting, and the puzzles have been fairly easy but still cllever.

Sounds like you want streaming software like OBS, not Teams…

I send code snippets, quote sections of linked documents, and provide in-line links pretty often, kind of like here on Lemmy. Slack isn’t as nice as Markdown, but it’s good enough, whereas Teams is a complete pain in in the butt and it completely butchers code blocks. That said, I’m a team lead, so I fairly frequently post about recent releases, security issues, or give cliff notes of recent meetings, so formatting for me matters quite a bit.

And for calls, we have multiple logical groups of people, such as:

• development teams
• team leads (for all teams)
• groups by location
• groups by role (developers, QA, etc)
• release groups - may be part of a team, multiple teams, or parts of multiple teams
• automated alerts when prod has an issue

And we have ad-hoc group chats where just a handful of people need to be involved, but they don’t fit cleanly into one of the established groups above (e.g. project manager wants to know a rough estimate for an upcoming project).

Teams works fine, but I find it annoying to use.

We use both: Teams for corporate crap and team meetings, Slack for actual work.

Honestly, I like that it doesn’t have it. We use Teams for meetings where one person is presenting, and if someone else wants to share, then we’re going to switch presenters. Making sure everyone sees the same thing is important.

We use Slack for 1:1 or other impromptu small group discussions, and it supports multiple people sharing their screens.

So for us:

• Teams - larger group meetings with generally one presenter; collaboration happens via audio, not screen sharing
• Slack - smaller group meetings where there’s a lot more active collaboration with screen sharing and whatnot

I only use Teams for scheduled meetings and Slack for everything else.

Videos can work, but I think you need to enable some feature that prevents tearing. It works fine for people who frequently present with it, but I honestly just avoid videos in my presentations because I don’t want to mess with it.

Exactly. Every time I mention some feature I like from Slack to a coworker of mine who loves Teams, they point out how to accomplish the same task, but it’s less intuitive, feature poor, and comes with a handful of caveats. But it can do them, and I guess if you’re used to it, it can be pretty productive.

Yeah, I have a similar experience, but it certainly lacks in features compared to other messengers. For example:

• chat - formatting is terrible, Slack is way better here
• groups - haven’t bothered figuring them out, in Slack making a channel or group message is super natural
• resources - Teams eats RAM like crazy, Slack seems to be a bit more respectful
• recent chats/messages - I can never find what I’m looking for, with Slack it’s simple

I like the integration w/ Outlook because we’re basically forced to use it at work, but Slack is way better for almost everything that doesn’t interact directly w/ Outlook. So if it’s not a scheduled meeting, I and my team much prefer Slack.

Eh, I thought that was already common knowledge. We use it at work because the Outlook integration works correctly 99% of the time and call quality is largely okay. I hate it as a text messenger or impromptu call tool, but we have Slack for that anyway.

Yup, it does exactly what I want it to do: link scheduled meetings to my Outlook calendar (corp requirement) and let me join from a notification box. We have Slack for everything else.

It’s not great, but it’s certainly okay. Call quality is fine, the chat is crappy but gets the job done (supports links, files, and plain text, which is enough), and audio/camera settings are surprisingly decent. It works well for our use-case, which is scheduled meetings. Impromptu (i.e. useful) meetings happen over Slack.

What other video call apps let you do that? Teams lets you mute others for everyone, and I do that semi-regularly for the exact reason you cited.

Teams is better for scheduled meetings, but Slack is better for literally everything else.

I’m a male, but I am married to someone who has periods. And yeah, they’re not textbook, but they’re generally within a couple days. We can both tell when it’s about to happen because my SO’s hormones start going crazy (alternate between angry over small things and affectionate), and like clockwork, the menstrual cycle happens about 2 days later.

But yeah, it’s generally about every 4 weeks, give or take a few days. It used to be all over the place, but now that she’s been better about exercise and diet, it’s a lot more consistent.