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Non-obvious remote work techniques
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Re: Non-obvious remote work techniques
#12Me: Hi!
You: Hi.
Absolutely not. Just say what you want.
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#13#3 - Holy hell I hate it when someone sends me a message with just "Hi". Just tell me what you want!
What I do is just not respond until they say what they want from me. And I also do this when someone just pastes an error message without a question.
Same here. I have a “No Hello/Hi/Hey” policy. I just ignore it
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#14#3 - Holy hell I hate it when someone sends me a message with just "Hi". Just tell me what you want!
It's easier to reply "sorry, busy right now" in response to "hi". Once they say what they want I feel more obliged to make time for them.
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#15Does anyone have any suggestions on a platform to facilitate Tip #4: Idling in a Videoconference Room? Zoom is the obvious choice, but wonder if anyone has built something better for this use case?
If you want to host your own, Jitsi Meet Server.
It doesn't take much CPU or RAM. Bandwidth is king. Uses browser or ios/android apps for clients.
I am light on with webtech and linux but I followed their "few commands and a shell script" install notes to get something working with LetsEncrypt https.
If you host the video centre, and everything is https out from there, it should be somewhat secure.
For business security you may want to go over it more carefully than my home bodgy job though.
Re: Non-obvious remote work techniques
#16#3 - Holy hell I hate it when someone sends me a message with just "Hi". Just tell me what you want!
So you want them to use the chat program like e-mail?
Re: Non-obvious remote work techniques
#17#3 - Holy hell I hate it when someone sends me a message with just "Hi". Just tell me what you want!
Plenty more of that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24239880
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#19Me: Hi! You: Hi. Absolutely not. Just say what you want.
The article lists that as an example of what _not_ to do
Re: Non-obvious remote work techniques
#20Does anyone have any suggestions on a platform to facilitate Tip #4: Idling in a Videoconference Room? Zoom is the obvious choice, but wonder if anyone has built something better for this use case?
I can tell you it won't work with Zoom. For some reason it takes over all of your sound, so if I play quiet music I can't hear it.
This would also be incredibly wasteful of bandwidth and CPU. Bandwidth is not unlimited, and if everyone in the Zoomy world kept a silent conference on in the background all day, the internet pipes [Zoom's especially] would be quite a bit more full, and my CPU would continue to churn unnecessarily.
Then there's the etiquette. What if people just start water-cooler-chatting? Maybe at a low volume it's OK, but I could see people leaving just because of too much laughter [yes laughter is annoying and yes I am a horrible person].