I am not touching the printer - we have already have issues with our plotter 
Im not tempting fate at this point. I will see what I can do
He is just networked to my printer tho.
didn’t see it, so will test tomorrow. Dankie
Ugh my pc stopped working yesterday. Or specifically the SSD. Started with errors that certain sectors couldn’t be read to me trying to install Windows but it can’t access the partition and I can’t delete the partition.
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Oh the stuff of nightmares! I need to double check my backup solutions again.
That’s the big disadvantage of SSD’s. Sure, you get face-melty fast access times, but spinny drives at least failed gradually for the most part! You had time to replace the drive, back up any data you might still have access to, and then toss the thing!
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Warranty?
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Luckily still under warranty. Contacted Wootware and will see how the whole process works.
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Mushkin?
Yep. Cheap but probably not the best?
I have to take it out and they will send a courier to come pick it up.
I’ve always been sceptical of those things, but the reviews are all good…
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The weird thing is that it’s still reporting as 100% healthy but I can’t seem to do anything to the disk. Tried all kinds of advice that I found on the internet but it doesn’t work.
I really hope they send me a new one and don’t fix this one because I’ve had problems with this one for quite a while.
Also I don’t think I’ll be going with an MSI motherboard again.
Overall this PC build that I’ve got now is probably the worst I’ve ever had. Have had issues since I got it in 2019.
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ORLY? They are generally considered to be the better board option. I got one too
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I swear, things are going so bad currently.
The M.2 SSD is underneath the GPU so when I pressed the GPU release thingy it snapped and broke. Got the GPU out and took out the SSD but now when I put the GPU back in I have no idea how I’m going to get it out again. Will have to cross that bridge when I get to it.
Just so gatvol of everything going wrong.
And managed to cut my hand in the process.
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Does anyone perhaps know if I can see or download the transcript of a Teams meeting from a recorded session?
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It’s done in the Microsoft Stream Portal. Click the … option next to your meeting recording in Teams and choose Open in MS Stream.
Once you’re there, choose to Edit the meeting and then something like Download Captions if I remember.
I do think it depends on whether your Teams administrator has enabled transcription/captions in your Teams settings though.
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Thanks, I will check this out.
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I honestly don’t know how stuff ends up in this MS Stream space, what is there I don’t remember uploading and why doesn’t it just like to the rest of the 365 ecosystem and be able to select from recordings from meetings.
Weird.
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Busy uploading, see that happens.
Agree, it’s really a little bit of a mix-and-match situation. I think MS were caught a little flat-footed by the demand for online meetings solutions last year, and initially lost a lot of ground to others like Zoom.
Then they landed up scrambling to cobble together stuff using the barebones of MS Teams and adding features and tools as they went.
I remember for our first few online lessons there were a lot of basic tools missing. We couldn’t even produce a simple list or register of which of our students had actually attended the session for example.
I think initially Teams wasn’t even available to anyone outside of the Office 365 environment, and then only with a corporate or educational account. Standard Home users couldn’t log in to the system at all.
That said, you would have thought that by now they would have consolidated all the bits and pieces into something a little more organised and structured.
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Yeah, it’s all a bit confusing, not just this system but sometimes I don’t completely understand the entire ecosystem and some of their decisions or use cases.
Thanks for the assitance.
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Teams is a dumpster fire as far as UX goes. Technical integration is a shit show for their cloud based products. Whatever happened to making a product do one thing, and one thing well. As a mindfuck example, someone I know joined a new company, and had to collaborate on some documents. But she could never actually edit their documents locally. Turns out, the company wasn’t actually sharing their correctly. So it amounted more to here’s what I did, but the doc is locked, neh neh neh neeeeeh neh. Don’t even get me started on office 365 vs the local licensed standalone office that was installed on mac, that was missing features, that others had. Sure it’s probably lack of education of how to use your tools to blame. But how can you make software, that allows you to hang yourself? Hoe werk daai? As much as google has become the evil big brother, at least their products work so damn well together, a dumbass can use it.
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We’ve been using MS Teams long before the lockdown hit, so I know the history there.
Initially, it was a very barebones solution, but most other online also didn’t have good offerings. The one thing that MS Teams did well was offer recording, which then get published to all attendees. They used the MS Stream platform, since that’s the inhouse video streaming platform. We used MS Stream at a corporate level to share workshops and larger events with the whole company, and it worked reasonably well.
The issue was getting traction. We just couldn’t get people to bother using Teams - they’d rather spend an hour in the car to get to us and back, than try to figure out how Teams works. Once forced into the setup by the lockdown, traction is there, and the improvements are working.
I prefer Google Meet to MS Teams, but our company uses O365 as standard. That said, I don’t think there is a single good online meeting platform. They are all just functional.
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