Exactly.

What I know is that there isn’t a microscopic teapot between earth and the sun.

It’s a native feature in W11 now.

Don’t look up.

Don’t recall diagnosing him anywhere, but you go ahead and read what you want to read so that you can create a straw man.

I said that it’s a possibility and therefore should be approached with the care that entails.

But your solution, reading your other response is to talk to the person. Which, if you had read the original post, you would have realised they have already tried to. And their response to that detailed.

So what do you propose? Because if the person who is annoyed by the co-worker shouldn’t take time separate from their team to be able to complete aspects of their work, then the alternative is to…? The idea that a TL/manager whatever cannot trust their team to be able to leave them to work without them is obscene in itself. I guess the entire place falls apart when they have to go into meetings or trips etc.

I’m sure you’ll decide to read whatever you want from the above as well, and you do that. I’ll leave you to it.

There’s a sentence in this that every single reply to this has either ignored or missed, and that’s the part where you think he’s autistic.

From the small snapshot of his life and personality that you’ve offered it does seem that he shows some pretty clear signs. It may be that he doesn’t even realise. I know that I’ve very recently come to realise that I’m obviously autistic and I’m very much an adult. How everyone around me throughout my entire life missed it/didn’t realise is absolutely boggling.

Whether he’s diagnosed or not shouldn’t change that it should be handled with the appropriate sensitivities and equality policies as if he was autistic. But that’s entirely up to your work place and it’s culture.

You all need to remember that while you ‘only’ have to be around then during the times you’re around him, he has always got to deal with being autistic, whether he knows he is or not. And from the sounds of things he may not be very good at masking, which is both good and bad for him. As a person who seems to be neurotypical, you live in a world that is designed for neurotypical people. He isn’t and doesn’t. Imagine being forced to live in a world where you need wheelchair ramps, but there are none provided - anywhere. He needs mental ramps.

You are more than entitled and allowed to not want to deal with him or be around him, please don’t take this as saying that expect you to do that. But there needs to be sensitivity and an understanding of his struggles. If he is autistic, he cannot help the way he approaches situations or how he feels when you rebuff him. To him being told he’s annoying is clearly something he’s taking very, very personally. Take it from someone who is also autistic, it’s horrible. I feel like my entire existence is being rejected, and it sticks and I ruminate on it for hours sometimes days.

So speak to HR first, see what their equality policy is, and what options that they have. Hopefully the company culture and policy recognises that a diagnosis isn’t always possible or needed. And take it from there. Ultimately I think that some of the responses about finding time where you can separate yourself from him is the most likely solution.

Isn’t that like a network protocol or something?

What a child.

It’s so bizarre when people try and double down and put words in other’s mouths rather than just fuck off.

Froggy prophet.

…that is what I said? Weird that you would effectively just repeat me.

Ryan McBeth has done a fairly succinct video on it.

It’s very high level and skips a lot of nuance, but you get the idea.

https://youtu.be/Azs7As3MYFU?si=UrUGjWbh1tpyNM5J

One does not excuse the other.

I wish I had the time to subscribe to it. It was a tough choice to unsub from it when I went through my last purge, because it’s normally really, really interesting topics and high quality information.

But since it was more American focused I had to let it go.

What is so different about my Pexel7a that’s any different to my 5?

Nothing that I even notice. Except for missing convenience such as the rear finger sensor.

And that’s the same for most models.

In fact in a desperate bid to make phones exciting again, manufacturers are trying to bring back the folding concept. And that’s just going to be a total fad since it doesn’t actually bring anything functional to the market.

Except that doesn’t happen, no matter how much you want it to.

I don’t see the strawman? And it’s more than just the ‘oh it’s only once every 3 years’. It’s the environment. Why are we making phones to be replaced needlessly every 2 or 3 years and all the waste that comes with it when you should just be able to replace the one common failure point?

You’ve got to be on a very old phone before you stop getting updates pushed through though? I know Apple are actually pretty good at legacy updates, but Android has got to be 5 or 6 years? Although the challenge is probably more to the variety of Anroid options out there in both the OS configurations and the hardware, where iOS is just iOS and the hardware is known.

I feel that when you get to that age then your battery is pretty much cooked anyway unless it’s had very light use or the owner has been absolutely meticulous in it’s care.

I think the biggest reaction will be that it will likely also impact the US and other markets. Just like with the previous EU regulation that mandated that everyone standardises on the same cables (USBC) it benifited the rest of the world as it was just cheaper to design and manufature one phone rather than multiple for the different markets. Probably the same here to.

I am curious to see how they will design around this requirement though. Curretly we’ve been ‘spoiled’ with some very sleek and clean designs, but if designers have to find a way for them to be easily openable either tooless or with non-propreietry tools and all the rest of it then it may change this.

Although, to be fair, I have noticed that phones have recently started getting bigger, heavier and clunkier. For example the difference between my recently retired Pixel 5 and new Pixel 7a is night and day. I actually regret upgrading - if it wasn’t for my son being ‘due’ for a new phone and being a little skint at the moment (easy ‘free’ birthday present), I wouldn’t have switched.

I’ve had (have) iPhones supplied by work and I just can’t get away with them. To the point it just sits there on my desk and never get touched unless I need to 2FA or something through it.

And even that takes me an unreasonable amount of time to figure out every time. A lot of that is down to lack of experience, but I’m sure most is down to it just being unintuitive vs an android. And I’m a Pixel user, and before that a HTC user so always been a very pure Android experience.