Your lockdown purchases.

[Orange Cola]

When you mute someone, does it mute them for everyone on teams?

Yes it does.

excellent - I’d been doing it without realising then. Ta

I am assuming it's a standard feature but thinking about it you might have a different set up, for example being able to turn read receipts on and off is configurable by the users job grade in our work... I suggest you try it by muting someone who's talking inane shite at the start of a meeting before its really kicked off and others are having issues joining just to see if it's working for your implementation too.

Our implementation won't show you who's muted you, again, might be something 'configurable' by the IT crowd...

[Swervin_Mervin]

I bought a cover for the barbeque. That's how exciting it is!

I need to do this still yet. Today's purchase was 2 crates of beer and a crate of cider. And I have some Campari and Cold And Blac sat in my basket for masterofmalt

I bust our 30yo shredder 2 days ago so may yet be buying more garden tools. Modern shredders look a bit shit though so I'm trying to source a suitable replacement belt drive for this first

[jamcg]

Knock off Chinese Lego caterham- just in the country now so not got it yet
Revel Land Rover series 3 model kit
Pressure washer
Various basic garden tools, having gone from a house with a big concrete slab to a house with a garden I’m having to get everything- got given a hardly used electric lawnmower though so saved there
New pillows
Postcrete and fence paint- already had the timber
Tilley lamp service kit to rejuvenate a very knackered lamp

[nuttinnew]

C70 Dynaudio Speakers and amp to fit to S60

Forgot I was watching a Dynaudio sub (just the driver) from a Golf 7 and missed it

[Gwaredd]

I seem to be falling foul of the ads on Facebook. So far in my inebriated state, I've bought some of that magic phone screen repair liquid and last night bought a new mountain bike helmet. None have arrived yet, so I'm expecting them to be shit.

I'm also keeping my local independent brewery in business single handed.

[Zonda_]

Just ordered a Ryobi cordless strimmer.

[McSwede]

Yes it does.

excellent - I’d been doing it without realising then. Ta

I am assuming it's a standard feature but thinking about it you might have a different set up, for example being able to turn read receipts on and off is configurable by the users job grade in our work... I suggest you try it by muting someone who's talking inane shite at the start of a meeting before its really kicked off and others are having issues joining just to see if it's working for your implementation too.

Our implementation won't show you who's muted you, again, might be something 'configurable' by the IT crowd...

When we use it you can mute anyone for everyone which is nice. It also doesn't show who did it. There been an update to Teams as now you get up to 12 or 15 on a screen.

[Orange Cola]

excellent - I’d been doing it without realising then. Ta

I am assuming it's a standard feature but thinking about it you might have a different set up, for example being able to turn read receipts on and off is configurable by the users job grade in our work... I suggest you try it by muting someone who's talking inane shite at the start of a meeting before its really kicked off and others are having issues joining just to see if it's working for your implementation too.

Our implementation won't show you who's muted you, again, might be something 'configurable' by the IT crowd...

When we use it you can mute anyone for everyone which is nice. It also doesn't show who did it. There been an update to Teams as now you get up to 12 or 15 on a screen.

It just looks like a blatant zoom copy. I find teams is awful at uploading anything vaguely large on a slower connection too, it just gives up too easy like the time limit is set too early (it’s a large excel document that’s a standard company format)

[DaveE]

I've basically spent no money since lockdown, other than essentials like food.

Although I did just order a new whisky and a 12TB drive for the NAS.

That's it though...

[mr_jon]

An entire anti-rust arsenal for the Celica!

[Delphi]

A Karcher WD4 Vac for the astro-turf.

We're contemplating some when we finally do the patio. Had it long? Any good?

It was put down by the previous owners. It's great as you can just hose it down (we have a dog) and when it's rainy your garden doesn't resemble the Somme. It's great for Max to play on too.

[jamcg]

Land Rover done, paintwork won’t win any awards but kept me busy for a week or so

[Orange Cola]

Better paint job than what came out the factory

Looks really good!

[Shlergen]

Looks good, is that a pube on bonnet?

[Jobbo]

It just looks like a blatant zoom copy. I find teams is awful at uploading anything vaguely large on a slower connection too, it just gives up too easy like the time limit is set too early (it’s a large excel document that’s a standard company format)

I'm finding that Teams doesn't prioritise speech over video like Zoom does, so if one of the participants has a poor connection on Zoom you can still hear them when their image freezes, yet on Teams the audio goes too. Pretty poor from Microsoft.

[jamcg]

Looks good, is that a pube on bonnet?

Nope, it’s the cheap brush you get that starts shedding after a while

[Orange Cola]

It just looks like a blatant zoom copy. I find teams is awful at uploading anything vaguely large on a slower connection too, it just gives up too easy like the time limit is set too early (it’s a large excel document that’s a standard company format)

I'm finding that Teams doesn't prioritise speech over video like Zoom does, so if one of the participants has a poor connection on Zoom you can still hear them when their image freezes, yet on Teams the audio goes too. Pretty poor from Microsoft.

I’m struggling with that a lot, there’s two of us working from home and we are both using teams, plus the village bandwidth has been suffering considerably since lockdown. There are a number of people in both our work places who insist on using the video connection so we frequently run out of bandwidth and drop out of the meeting altogether. Zoom last night was absolutely fine, the video kept dropping but we never ended up out of the meeting altogether.

[dinny_g]

We use Skype and it's been pretty faultless so far. Very clear audio, no issues with Video for those who want to use it.

A touch screen laptop helps for muting and unmuting etc.

[Jobbo]

Dinny, it doesn't sound like anyone on your calls is having connection issues. My dad is 75, has the wifi router at the opposite end of his house to his laptop and has the cheapest internet connection possible in a rural area. If he were round the corner, I'd be able to do something to help him but he's a couple of hours away. He'd be better off using his phone's data connection on a call, to be honest, but trying to get him to force that when he's connected to wifi isn't really possible either.

[dinny_g]

Yeah that must be difficult. Sounds like he could use some sort of booster when you can get over to see him.

My folks internet connection is pretty poor too (similar to your dad's situation) and they occasionally freeze on Zoom calls (Skype for work / Zoom for family calls)