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LadyCritique
AskWoody PlusMy Monday rant:
I’m disgusted with all the “subscriptions” that companies want to charge for like CoPilot. In this one article if I paid the $20 for Perplexity and $20 for CoPilot, I’m already up to $40 per month. And then you add Spotify, Paramount, Audible, and the other apps we want (not need) and it’s up to a couple hundred dollars per month.
It reminds me of when we went to a Mexican restaurant and we had to pay extra for the salsa. The corporations just keep adding on and adding on charges. I just cancelled Dish because we couldn’t afford it anymore.
MS office wants to take away Publisher and WordPad. Why? I love those two apps. When I signed up for Microsoft 365, they were included. They can push the delete button or add button anytime they want without consideration to the consumers.
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LadyCritique
AskWoody PlusMarch 13, 2024 at 10:50 am in reply to: The elephant in the room that no one’s talking about-shortcuts don’t work #2648537PaulK,
Thanks for this suggestion, if I don’t find the invisible window that “b” was referring to, I will try this workaround.
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LadyCritique
AskWoody PlusMarch 13, 2024 at 10:48 am in reply to: The elephant in the room that no one’s talking about-shortcuts don’t work #2648534b,
You may be onto something here. I just checked and once again my shortcuts were froze. I did “ALT-Tab” and checked all my windows….clicked on the desktop window and then clicked on copilot and the shortcuts started working again. I’m just wondering if it has something to do with the Copilot app. I am going to disable it and see if my shortcuts will stay active. I appreciate your help and feedback. I believe this will resolve it and will keep investigating the “windows”. Thanks again.
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LadyCritique
AskWoody PlusMarch 12, 2024 at 8:12 pm in reply to: The elephant in the room that no one’s talking about-shortcuts don’t work #2648353b, I do not have Cisco or Slack installed, but I do have Zoom and Asana installed. I do not use the team features on either one of them, though.
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