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Modern Windows in a nutshell
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We're going to restart your computer during active hours. Your work will be interrupted. Fuck you.
Interrupted, and not saved
Isn't everything being saved automatically anyway, when you work in the cloud (i.e. SharePoint)?
Your Comment (version 1).xlsx has been auto-recovered. Do you want it?
No, thanks! ;-)
Actually I work a lot with Office Documents on SharePoint in my job and for each of them "automatic saving" is on, so you never have to worry about anything. Just close the application when you're done and your work is always up-to-date.
MS disabled the auto-save function for anything on a local disk, which is necessary for me because I use *gasp* version control software.
If you turn off a few of Microsoft's more insane tracking in the privacy settings, it disables the autosave "feature". The autosave fucked up version tracking badly enough that it was nice to have a global kill button.
I have found that turning off most new "features" that Microsoft makes recently is usually for the best.
Makes sense. You wouldn’t want to hammer that file onto disk every second.
Yes I do. I made a change. Save it. My disk can take it.
in good software autosave happens with a slight delay of 10 seconds or so. It's really not uncommon.
Auto-saving works great except when I'm using an existing document as a template to make a new one only to remember 45 minutes in that I forgot to disable auto-save or make a copy to start with and the original document is gone.
Oh yes, I had this too. Templates filled with random content from various team members. Now we switched to dotx templates to avoid this kind of situation.
Yes, until its somehow automatically deleted during a syncing error and than you're fucked.
It's being saved, but not for you.
Love the snark in this thread
When ppl really Get It, you love to see it
Libreoffice does this without forcing you to allow them to store all of your files. Because it's a feature that doesn't rely on any kind of cloud bs, MS just added that requirement because they are assholes that have no respect for their users.
I have to use Power BI for my job and it does automatically saves until it's been open too long and then it stops automatically saving and also won't let you manually save. Then you have to do a Save As for some reason, close every open PBI file, and reopen them, which takes approximately 3-5 business days.
Yeah, came home to my pc having restarted itself for updates the other day, despite having 2 VMs running at the time that were not properly shut down. Then Windows tried to push their cloud backup on me... twice, and it reset my mouse speed to the default for some reason
This is major boundary respect by Microsoft's standards
Cloud backup just means they will use all and any data on your pc and network to train their shitty ai to do more shitty things and continue stealing our data. Yay future.
Lets say they don't use private data for training
(Continue reading when you're done laughing):
Eventually, victims eventually run out of "free" storage.
The humble corporation will do a bunch of psychologically unethical tricks to basically hypnotize users into forking over those three digits at the back of the family credit card.
Now the victim's data is effectively held ransom. Keep paying or lose it.
But they won't stop paying. They paid for a year's plan at a discount and the peaceful megacorp conveniently hit autorenew for them at checkout.
12 months roll around and oopsie, they already have the money. They could go through the refund process, but they've got shit on their plate, might as well keep it for another year.
I could keep rambling, but on Lemmy, I'm probably preaching to the choir about the first verse of genesis.
keep nothing in it but zip bombs
Yeah, there was at least a skip for now option.... What more could I ask for?
The 'keep changing hours' section in this article works for me whenever I have to use that partition.
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/windows-updates-restart-disable
You pretty much create the script and have the task scheduler run it hourly. (You should be able to make it silent, though I've never bothered for the hourly, half-second cmd blip)
I want a script that forces the update servers at Redmond to reboot every hour on the hour
You can make it silent. Create a .vbs file, open it in a text editor, and input the following...
Have your scheduled task run the .vbs, rather than your initial script.
inb4 some commenter says this doesn't happen.
It doesn't happen to me, but I took a proactive approach to prevent it from happening. I don't remember what that action was, since I did it years and years ago... but I know it's possible. You just have to literally more than nothing to prevent these things.
Or you could switch to linux... but that takes an even more proactive approach.
Done
Ah, so not even speaking from experience, then.
... why are internet people like this?
I used windows constantly for 20+ years. Since windows 7 I noticed this auto-restarting bullshit. I switched to linux in 2021. What kind of gotcha do you think you have.. ?
I never said it didn't happen, I said you had to take steps to make it not happen.
Why are you like this? With the incessant need to be right and everyone else wrong?
ok. "no experience" in what exactly?
not everyone -- just people who are confidently incorrect.
Hmm I think now they meant the original "switch to linux" bit sarcastically and are stuck in a mindset thinking that it's way more complicated than windows and thus anyone claiming to have already switched must be lying...?
Though thinking about it more, it kinda feels like a bad faith response, posting about a vague windows solution that they want people to know exists but doesn't want to share, while treating Linux as big and scary and requiring more effort than fighting against what your OS really wants you to do.
Ah, so you see a mirror and you don't like it.
No answer. Hmm, curious. Almost like you told me I had no experience with windows and you had no fucking clue what you were talking about. Weird.
You're just making yourself look even worse with every reply.
My approach was spending even more money for the pro version so I could access the OS settings paywalled by group policy and set it to never automatically download updates.
It would tell me about updates, but wouldn't do shit until I clicked a button on the update page to actually install them (though without the option to pick and choose which ones).
It still nagged me about stupid shit I didn't want, like edge, bing, one drive, and their office subscription.
So when I built a newer computer, I gave them $0 and installed Fedora and laugh at my former reluctance because it's actually been easier and I haven't even had moments where I wished I had just stuck with windows.
Not saying that it's been perfect without any issues, I just recall that there were also issues on windows to deal with, a lot more dated responses showing up in searches that tell you do go to some setting window that no longer exists because the question was answered 6 months ago. Oh and I haven't had to fight my fucking OS deciding to change my settings back to the shitty defaults they set (plus Linux just has better defaults, so doesn't even need as much settings tweaking).
And as an added bonus, switching made me finally pull the plug on xbox game pass, which was a nice idea but I still mostly just spent my time playing games on steam and forgetting to check game pass when buying games on sale, so it was kinda a waste of money. But each time I considered getting rid of it before, I'd instead convince myself it was good to have and end up playing some games on there for a few days before forgetting about it again.