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"The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from"
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Wow - I was gonna give the same type of answer but you and XKCD beat me to it.
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set of all sets dilemma
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Being an old guy, I reminisce about the days when the choice was between the Intel 8051 or the Motorola 6805  Then the MSP430 and the PIC, then ARM came. Now the choices are just too much. Soon time to retire.
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You can't keep up!! I did embedded for my whole career and when I had input on the processor selection, I always opted for the older chips that would meet the requirements. This always gave me lots of options in regards to sample code and third party libraries (infrequently needed). I'd would read about the newer chips but rarely used them until they were a year or two old.
In regards to ARM, I only did 1 ARM project (mostly did TI DSPs) and I ended up using an ARM7TDMI. There were many more powerful options available but why use a more expensive processor when a cheaper well known processor would handle the job. Turned out I was easily able to run the processor at half speed and still get the job done.
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I often find I have trouble sourcing older chips.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Yep, that can be a problem too. Wasn't really a problem when I went with ARM7TDMI, there were a ton of manufactures at the time. All the TI DSPs we used were obviously single sourced and the age of the product line could cause a problem. We had a contact at one of the distributors that seemed to have good info on how popular the TI DSPs were. We'd always try to get a processor that was going to have a long life (just an educated guess).
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elephanting rolling turds down the street.... so laptop had to update to the latest Windows 10 update. Update changed the default browser. Oh, but it gets better. Going to the default apps, it says Opera is the default browser. Click on a link in email, and I get edge - ewwwww.
I don't know what POS from MS decided this, but I might trip your child or children on the playground.
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So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it? As you know, I have recently entered therapy on browser tabs. So, oh wait, google reveals the truth. It turns out that Outlook now has its own default applications. Cute. Links default to edge. Tacky. One more excuse for me to change my email client. This is how I feel about crap like this:
Microsoft Users engaging with stupid MS managers | Movieclips - YouTube[^]
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: might trip your child or children on the playground
Ah, I see ... more sentimentaltrashspeak?
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well of course. Since I have a boatload of children and grandchildren it was just tongue in cheek. You don't visit the sins of the father or mother on their children. HOWEVER - I just updated the root post.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I had MS Teams app close itself during an important meeting to update itself. I mean, WTF?!?
Once I could reconnect to the meeting, almost 5 minutes later, I had to apologise. Luckily, they were still there waiting.
Funnily, once I did restart the app, it proudly announced that it updated itself. pffft!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Graeme_Grant wrote: during an important meeting to update itself.
Last week minutes before a Zoom meeting, I fired up the laptop to be greeted by the 'Applying Updates...Please Wait' which took a few minutes. Finally, I get Outlook open to get the meeting link and when it opens Zoom, I am told that a new version was required to join the meeting.  Yep, I was late! (but thankfully not last) 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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Couple of years ago we had a Windows 10 computer decide to update itself despite having been told to only do it on a schedule. It was the early days of W10 - I'm sure you remember the tales of people's laptops rebooting in the middle of presentations.
This machine wan't even connected to the internet at the time, and hadn't been for several days, so it had downloaded an update but had saved it up, somehow. Anyway, it just went ahead and started the update process, except it stalled during the restart and we had to power cycle it and manually fix it. Took half an hour to get the update installed. Which doesn't sound too bad, until you realise that it was running the sound cues for a theatre performance and while it was sulking we were dead in the water. We had to abandon the performance and refund the audience.
The Mac running Qlab arrived before the next show in the schedule. Shame, as the actual application it was running at the time (SCS) was quite a nice bit of software.
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charlieg wrote: So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it?
IIRC, they've added separate settings to Outlook and Teams to override the default browser and use Edge instead.
In Teams, it's under Settings ⇒ Files and links ⇒ Always open links in:, which they default to "Microsoft Edge" instead of "Default browser". I currently can't find the equivalent setting in the "new" Outlook desktop app, but I've definitely seen it in the "old" app.
I expect we're supposed to be grateful that they give us the option to respect our selected defaults, even if they don't default to using our defaults. We'll probably find a future update removes the option and forces us to always use Edge, because not enough people with telemetry enabled have managed to change the option. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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For me, when Edge opened, it opened with a pop-up that let you change it back immediately. But yeah, that is BS.
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I’ll pile onto this complaint with this:
I use Foxit as my PDF reader. Every other day I get an alert that Foxit is not the default reader.
When I go to the defaults config dialog, it shows Foxit is the default.
What the elephant?
You’ll probably always get Edge when opening a link from within a Microsoft app. Seems they’ve hard-coded it.
Frustrating and just a little sad that their apps aren’t good enough on their merits, they have to strong-arm and trick you into using them.
Corporations Rule! (unfortunately) 
Time is the differentiation of eternity devised by man to measure the passage of human events.
- Manly P. Hall
Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Hi,
Looking at a Teams collective call going on about a project I am not in (yet) the three people in it in the same office, two sit next to each other the third opposite. Why a Teams call? why share screens when you can look at your neighbors, possibly the only thing I can think, is it is being recorded but why a Teams meeting at your desk,
we have break out rooms for that...
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Because they can?
Some people will use technology regardless of there being a simpler solution.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I used to sit at the desk next to my team leader. If he wanted something from me he would always send an email.
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Probably not the reason in this particular instance, but Teams now will create a summary of what was said during a Teams call. Not 100% accurate, but still helpful to get all the note down from what was said....
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and then Teams will delete it....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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That seems to depend very much on the license you have. Looks like you need something like 'Teams Premium'... but I'm lost in the license jungle
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On some level it is easier to collaborate sitting at your own desk. It allows everyone to see the primary screen but the ones not sharing can reference other things, sql tables, vs solutions, google, chatgpt. You can't really do that sharing one desk and pc.
That said, it does seem silly to not just lean back and ask your neighbor a question.
So I guess there are times when either one is more productive than the other.
P.S. Most of us are lazy and don't want to get up. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Agreed.
My teammate and I sit 1.3m apart and prefer to collaborate via screen share (no headsets, though. too much echo)
40+ year old eyeballs also are at play… and our furniture setup really does not work for two people unless you standup. (back to your lazy point)
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