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My family member is using a Logitech webcam for audio (and video obviously). Used the setup fine for years. One day she stopped being heard during zoom meetings. She is not muted. The microphone is set to default/system device - Logitech XXX webcam. When you join the test zoom meetings the microphone test works perfectly. She speaks and it plays it back for her. When she is in a real meeting and the audio settings when she talks the bar moves. However nomatter WHAT, when she is in a meeting no audio comes through. I verified everything with my own eyes and did a zoom meeting with her and yeah, can't hear her. She is 100% not on mute. We are both at wit's end. I checked the Windows privacy settings and not only is everything allowed it shows recent requests from the zoom app. Please someone suggest something that's actually going to fix this!

For designers at work, some are complaining about 16GB models we purchased in 2024. We started ordering the 24GB models in 2025 but I’m worried people will start to complain about those too. Too many apps and files open, unwilling or
unable to close due to workflow and productivity. Even though it’s basically a 25% uplift I feel like 48GB is the right standard since we want to get 4 years minimum and ideally 5 or 6 from a machine. I feel like the M5 Pro processors will still be good 5 years from now. Agree?

I’m thinking about this because of that story in the news with the old guy slapping the young man. When I was about 10 or 11 I was at a baseball game with my crazy ass uncle. When the anthem started I thought i’d be funny and not stand. My uncle yanked hard on my earlobe for me to get up. He was not a veteran or anything and if he had just said get up it would have been no problem. This was not the first time he’d been a hostile jerk to me. This effectively ended our relationship. I was respectful during family gatherings but largely avoided him. When i was in my 20’s he asked my mother what I had against him and why I avoided him and never called. I hope it was worth it for him.

Edit: I am almost 50 now and speak to him maybe once a year

Hello,

I don’t know if this is expected or not. Long story short my son lost his left airpod (4 with ANC). Still worked with 1 of course. Like a complete and utter dumbass i bought the wrong replacement one, the 4 without ANC. Tried getting it to work and tried resetting and got the error message Mismatched Airpods, the airpods in the charging case do not belong to you and do not work together. Both left and right said “not yours”. so anyway i took the replacement out, and now the single one won’t connect to any device. Tried removing, tried resetting by tapping the case. The led just flashes white forever. Nothing ever gets displayed on the phone. Does not appear on the list of bluetooth devices.

So yeah. I’m in tech. Not an apple expert though. Did my son a favor replacing his lost one now it doesn’t work at all. I ordered the correct replacement which should arrive in a few days. Should i expect it to work again when both are connected?

TIA.

My son is a freshman in high school. He has always been a very strong academic student and was in an accelerated public school program for elementary and middle school. When he was younger, elementary school age, he suffered with some frustration management and impulse control, would have mild outbursts in school, and struggled with things like staying in his seat when he didn't want to and calling out. In second grade I believe he had to sit with an AP during lunch because he wouldn't/couldn't stay in his seat and wanted to get up and walk around to other kids and play etc. But by the next year he had it under control.

Academically the one knock on him is that he seemed to either struggle or "not care" about always reading instructions carefully, double checking his work. He was the kid in class who always finished first but would sometimes lose points/grade because he didn't do every part of the assignment or not look over.

In middle school as a lot of the information shifted to online/google classroom he continued to perform well but sometimes struggled to stay on top of his assignments without us helping him/following up with him. He would look at google classroom and say everything was done, despite assignments being posted or shown as due in different locations (Stream, assignments, your work) we explained and worked with him many times about how to do a proper review of each section, but he somehow "didn't see it", "went to quick", didn't scroll down. In addition, there was a pattern of issues with any verbal information (such as test dates) or sometimes paper handouts not being processed. Missing permission slips, forms, project and test dates, a lot of having to check with friends who all seemed to have the information. Excuses like must have been out of the class, or the teacher never told us (verified to be untrue).

We tried to work with him on many organization systems like spreadsheets, paper, notebooks, paper planner, online planners/calendars, he effectively refused to do any of them for more than a day or two, saying there was "no time" given in his classes and that they are working till the bell and then off to next class. I tried to work with every one of his teachers to have them give important information electronically and to give the kids 5 minutes at the end of class to write things down, etc. According to my son they never implemented this.

Now he is finishing up freshman year in a specialized math and science high school, and he has fantastic grades. But we have still had to be up is behind a lot about him not missing information and assignments. The kids are not allowed to use electronic devices and he's effectively refused to use any type of note taking system. He semi routinely does not know when his exams will be and has to ask his classmates, sometimes the night before he will find out. A few times it was a surprise to him, after telling us he had no tests that week. It's not just school he seems to struggle with paying attention to details, which he attributes to just forgetting or not caring enough. These are some of the things he does:

almost ever shut off a light when he leaves the room. He will be down in the basement gaming and leave everything on. No amount of asking, pleading, threatening, correcting, has made any difference in years.

Takes stuff out of the refrigerator and leaves it out to spoil. And/or will immediately lose or throw out the lid to something, like have no clue of where it went.

Takes ice out of our small standalone ice maker freezer, not close the door properly, causing me to have to defrost the unit and start over. He has done this about 4 times this year. Like once he has what he wants, the steps necessary to complete are irrelevant to him or IDK, he just apologizes and says forgot. I want to give him more responsibility not less, but he doesn't seem to be able to make sure the door is closed.

Has been asked to take or put items in our standalone freezer and leave the door not closed properly, causing us to throw food out.

He took an online orientation for his summer job program, but didn't pay attention to the attendance form. So he was forced to repeat it and could have possibly been cut from the program. First her argued that there was no such attendance form, but like 6 of his friends were on the same zoom and all signed up. Claims it was the instructors fault.

After he finished the makeup orientation there was a form to fill out which included his application ID. He asked me for help finding it. I told him to search his gmail for the program name and he'd find the email on his phone with the info (I did this in 5 seconds). He can't find it. So I sit with him on his computer and he finds and pulls up the correct email. It has a fair amount of information in it and some links but if you scroll down a bit the application ID is there. He asks me for help again. I tell him, son the information you're looking for is literally in this email. He starts looking from the top then opening up some of the links and finally says "I don't see it." I tell him - I am looking at it with my eyeballs right now. So he stares at the screen for another 10 seconds going through each of the lines and says "oh" and he says I see it. I ask him why he wasn't able to just look at the email and find it and he says "I didn't look down far enough"

The google classroom continues to be a constant issue. We've gone over how to do a proper review with him 100 times but he continues to somehow "miss" stuff. Today we had a fight about it. He has a Spanish test that we knew was this week. His mother and I are both logged into his google classroom on our phones and we look at the notifications (he doesn't). Today they are off from school and I asked him when he was studying for it. He says the test is next week. I look on my phone and scroll down in the stream and clear as day it says the test is tomorrow. He is flabbergasted and asks me how I know this because he checked and didn't see it. Finally after we argue he says oh, I didn't scroll down enough, I see it. He tells me that he has a high grade in spanish (true) and that I am a psycho, and that he simply doesn't care as much as I do to be crazy about every date.

Am I a psycho, sure maybe. But I am really starting to get concerned that something is going on, why it's so difficult for him to process this info repeatedly. His mom is happy to just make excuses for him and say he's just stubborn, or not focused on things he doesn't care about but. In 3 years he's going to be away at college, he can't be missing his assignments.

Hello,

I’m behind the 8-ball on this. I just noticed basically all my former employees OneDrive accounts have been archived. Previously we just kept the max retention setting. I understand new policies were rolled out over a year ago. I have never signed up for M365 Archive. We needed access to one former employees OneDrive, assigned a license to it and it came back.

The part i’m not exactly understanding is, if Microsoft is doing all of this for free for me right now, why am I going to sign up for M365 archive and pay 5c/GB? Are my archives going to get nuked if I don’t pay? I understand that M365 archive has a way to “restore” onedrives without using a license, and you have to pay for that transaction also. It is such a rare occurrence though and we can assign a license temporarily and then grab what files we need. So yeah I don’t see why anyone. would pay.

Thanks.