I never really liked Skype but seeing a major corporation buy proprietary software and its servers, then shut it down, makes me glad that I'm still using IRC with some of my friends. Try buying that.
Anyway I'm getting old now because Microsoft doing something like this just reminds me of their EEE strategy.
Where I live they try really hard not to give you a diagnosis as an adult because it might require the health services to do something more about it, and would take more resources. Just getting medication was a hassle so I gave up on the system trying to help me.
Children get a diagnosis but government help will become much more limited when they turn adult.
Apparently in Canada and specifically in Quebec, nerodivergence goes away as soon as someone becomes an adult.
It varies a lot. In my mother's family it's all informal, but my father uses formal vous with his parents and grandchildren do the same.
I'm also working with the public and I'm used to vouvoyer pretty much everyone except people clearly younger than me. I sometimes pass for a bit of a pedantic asshole but that's just what I'm used to.
Just switch when the other person asks.
A bit ironic given the fact that they want to push everyone on the cloud and run Office apps in a browser. Or is this just corporate?
I've been doing tech support for a few corporations and they were literally removing the local applications like Word, Excel and Outlook to force users to use the web versions because it was costing them less money for licensing.
It's a noble goal and a good message but it's kind of ruined by the smaller patronizing text. It's weird to tell people that the tram always has priority, but the people's security is its priority. They should pick one.
Zathras tryed to warn, but no one listens to poor Zathras.
I briefly passed by Liège-Guillemins last year and walked a bit around to see it was still in construction.
I'm glad to see it's now working.
Also, this made me chuckle a bit.
It was the same on the municipal level for me. I can call 311 or write to them, but it was kind of nice to be able to tweet at my neighbourhood and have people interacting with them and me on local issues.
I'm ashamed of some of the regions of Québec that voted Conservative. Being from rural Montérégie but now living in Montréal is like two different worlds when it comes to politics. The riding where most of my family lives was won by the Bloc Québecois but followed by the Conservatives. The riding next to it was won by the Conservatives.
I hate to admit it, but if it were not for the Bloc Québecois, there would probably be even more people here voting for the Conservatives.
With any luck the Conservatives will split back into two parties. It's unlikely, but the splitting of the Conservatives would be a welcome surprise.
There's already someone in my city posting videos of "how well" the autopilot navigates the intersections of pedestrianized streets and I hate it. They are enthusiastically beta testing their lethal shit around pedestrians like it's nothing.