Working from home and zoom meetings

[油井緋色]

It really does help with managing calls.

You can also share screens with the group, prevention, reports and help others find things if it’s internal navigation to access files etc.


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I think there's a generation gap thing here cause I work with many devs just via typing, voice only calls, and screen sharing.

The only guys who insist on cam meetings are the non devs. Must be something to do with those who live on the internet vs those who only use it for work lol

I think some of gen z might be cam happy tho when they start working due to TikTok and whatever.

 

[Trials]

 

[Relax]

Ok, Lets' see if we can find somebody that's lying

it will just be a guess, but a calculated one

Great show. One of the few my whole family enjoys.

 

[jc100]

Anda Seat has a promotion. No idea what it is but I was emailed a code ROYALAD

If anyone is still looking for a chair. No...I'm not paid for this.

 

[nobbie48]

There’s the reason it wasn’t a good experience ... didn’t drink it fast enough!

Next Polish wedding I go to I’m bringing tape.

I was at a Ukrainian wedding and they had one of those "Toast the couple" line ups. You pay a few bucks to toast the individuals in the wedding party face to face. There were around 500 guests and far fewer shot glasses so the last person in the reception line, a young usher, doubled as glass washer.

At the end of the line people would set their empty shot glasses down, he swished them in a tub of dishware then a rinse tub and put them on a tray to be refilled at the head of the line.

The trouble was, no one told the guy that the people in the reception line do not sip the whiskey. They just touch the glass to their lips. This guy was taking sips as he washed, rinsed and set the empty glasses on a tray. As his brain grew foggy he continued to sip with it becoming rinse, wash and sip again. He eventually started toasting with dishwater and sipping it. I don't know if anyone got clean glasses.

Advice: If invited to a Ukrainian wedding take lots of $5's

 

[GreyGhost]

I was at a Ukrainian wedding and they had one of those "Toast the couple" line ups. You pay a few bucks to toast the individuals in the wedding party face to face. There were around 500 guests and far fewer shot glasses so the last person in the reception line, a young usher, doubled as glass washer.

At the end of the line people would set their empty shot glasses down, he swished them in a tub of dishware then a rinse tub and put them on a tray to be refilled at the head of the line.

The trouble was, no one told the guy that the people in the reception line do not sip the whiskey. They just touch the glass to their lips. This guy was taking sips as he washed, rinsed and set the empty glasses on a tray. As his brain grew foggy he continued to sip with it becoming rinse, wash and sip again. He eventually started toasting with dishwater and sipping it. I don't know if anyone got clean glasses.

Advice: If invited to a Ukrainian wedding take lots of $5's

Whisky? I would have expected a ukranian spin on tuica/slivovitsa/etc. Definitely not to be dumped/washed as somebodies grandpa made it in a bathtub for the wedding.

 

[nobbie48]

Long distance phone question:

I have a relative in New Zealand and we occasionally phone each other. I don't know if it's him, a Kiwi thing or long distance factor but there is a time gap in the conversation. It's like a TV news shot where they go remote to a man on the street event and the guy with the mike in his face just stares into the camera for an awkward second or two.

I don't know if my half brother is catching his breath but this pause appears so I start to talk just as he does. Then it's that "sorry, you go ahead, no you" etc

 

[GreyGhost]

Long distance phone question:

I have a relative in New Zealand and we occasionally phone each other. I don't know if it's him, a Kiwi thing or long distance factor but there is a time gap in the conversation. It's like a TV news shot where they go remote to a man on the street event and the guy with the mike in his face just stares into the camera for an awkward second or two.

I don't know if my half brother is catching his breath but this pause appears so I start to talk just as he does. Then it's that "sorry, you go ahead, no you" etc

That used to happen with very long distance communication. I thought they had solved it though. Not sure how, probably faster and/or less relays required. I haven't talked to someone on the other side of the world in a long time (probably 5 to 10 years). When I did, we used whatsapp and didn't have that issue (at least it was not very noticeable).

 

[mimico_polak]

Whisky? I would have expected a ukranian spin on tuica/slivovitsa/etc. Definitely not to be dumped/washed as somebodies grandpa made it in a bathtub for the wedding.

Same in Poland. The younger generation is moving away from vodka and it’s more accepted to drink whiskey. Each time I fly half the weight in our luggage is crown royal because our cousins absolutely love it. And it’s stupidly expensive there.

But wedding toasts....still vodka. Ukrainians are just weird like that...lol. Don’t kill me fellow Slavs.

 

[mimico_polak]

Long distance phone question:

I have a relative in New Zealand and we occasionally phone each other. I don't know if it's him, a Kiwi thing or long distance factor but there is a time gap in the conversation. It's like a TV news shot where they go remote to a man on the street event and the guy with the mike in his face just stares into the camera for an awkward second or two.

I don't know if my half brother is catching his breath but this pause appears so I start to talk just as he does. Then it's that "sorry, you go ahead, no you" etc

What do you use? I literally just had an hour convo with my cousin in Australia through FB messenger and we had zero lag issues. Same goes for FaceTime audio calls with Polish cousins recently.

 

[油井緋色]

Long distance phone question:

I have a relative in New Zealand and we occasionally phone each other. I don't know if it's him, a Kiwi thing or long distance factor but there is a time gap in the conversation. It's like a TV news shot where they go remote to a man on the street event and the guy with the mike in his face just stares into the camera for an awkward second or two.

I don't know if my half brother is catching his breath but this pause appears so I start to talk just as he does. Then it's that "sorry, you go ahead, no you" etc

Have you tried VOIP instead?

I regularly game with someone in Hong Kong. We sometimes have lag issues (200~ ms ping) but the delay in voice isn't that bad.

We mostly use Discord, a gaming focused VOIP software that I've merged into work as well.

 

[Trials]

One of my friends uses VOIP, I hate talking on the phone to him with it, everything I say echoes back to me on about a half second delay.
So I say as little as possible and he's thinking like wtf am I keeping my response so short for ? it's because your phone solution totally sucks on this end!

 

[GreyGhost]

One of my friends uses VOIP, I hate talking on the phone to him with it, everything I say echoes back to me on about a half second delay.
So I say as little as possible and he's thinking like wtf am I keeping my response so short for ? it's because your phone solution totally sucks on this end!

There is good and bad Voip. One of my competitors signed up with a terrible voip service where people could barely understand what was being said. No idea why they kept it for years. I had some clients tell me that they didnt even let them bid on projects as they hated not being able to easily talk with them. Other voip is indistinguishable from landline (which, let's be honest is also being digitized and transmitted not far from your house). For work, I pay for premium voip at a tenth of a cent a minute as the cost is much less important that the quality.

 

[油井緋色]

One of my friends uses VOIP, I hate talking on the phone to him with it, everything I say echoes back to me on about a half second delay.
So I say as little as possible and he's thinking like wtf am I keeping my response so short for ? it's because your phone solution totally sucks on this end!

VOIP software has been great for years, before they became mainstream. But I've legit worked at companies and asked myself "why does this product exist when these things are better?" The target users are always:

1. Older generation
2. Businesses

1 doesn't know any better, 2 doesn't give a **** (until nothing works lol.)

 

[jc100]

I've had Ooma for years. Don't make a ton of calls and the thing costs me nearly nothing. I have a few thousand minutes of international calls apparently.

 

[Lightcycle]

Not sure what LD rates you are paying, but Skype to Phone costs $0.037 CAD a minute.

 

[Mad Mike]

VOIP software has been great for years, before they became mainstream. But I've legit worked at companies and asked myself "why does this product exist when these things are better?" The target users are always:

1. Older generation
2. Businesses

1 doesn't know any better, 2 doesn't give a **** (until nothing works lol.)

Properly deployed voip should be as good or better than a regular telephone connection. I’ve used it for for 10+ years on my business and home lines.

I have voip on my cell and home phones. All the cell phones in my kids business use voip. You can’t tell the diff between voip, land and cell connections.

 

[油井緋色]

I was just on a Teams meeting, leading a coding session, with a director and two juniors.

My desktop accidently showed up. Laughs ensued. All 3 already know I'm very open with loving drawn women. And asked me how to get the wallpaper lol

Guess there's some hope after all! (Also, this is why you should give your employees GOOD equipment because whatever is their own is fair game!)

 

[Mad Mike]

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I was just on a Teams meeting, leading a coding session, with a director and two juniors.

My desktop accidently showed up. Laughs ensued. All 3 already know I'm very open with loving drawn women. And asked me how to get the wallpaper lol

Guess there's some hope after all! (Also, this is why you should give your employees GOOD equipment because whatever is their own is fair game!)

At my place that background would get you an immediate chit chat with HR. If you survived that meeting, it could never happen again.

 

[油井緋色]

At my place that background would get you an immediate chit chat with HR. If you survived that meeting, it could never happen again.

Would your company actually provide your employees with decent equipment? Or are they forced to use their own?

And yeah, I expect that to happen at places that provide their own equipment out of mutual respect. But if one is told to use their own equipment...well, if I have a 3TB folder on my desktop named Porn (I don't), get over it or find a new guy lol