Copilot has determined that it's better to save your files in OneDrive.
Oops, one of your jpegs violates Disney's copyright.
Authorities have been notified and your Microsoft account was deactivated.
All your files are gone, your email account is gone, your Windows PC will shut down now.
I swear, at my next job I'll ask for a Mac. We were forced to switch to windows 11 by our outsourced IT MSP, at my current job and it wasn't pretty.
If I can help it my future windows experience will be spinning up a VM on my proxmox host, and killing it off after use. No personal files will be going on there.
If you don't control your data you don't control your data... The cloud is just someone else's computer.... Back up your shit and keep some of those backups offsite but keep everything under your own control...
"If you don't control your data, you don't control your data...", statement of the century. But yes we all should be taken care of our own data, and building up systems to help those who can't
Debian, LMDE, Suse, Fedora, whatever. Just pick one and go for it.
Steam Cloud: You dumb bitch.
I've got it disabled and in offline mode and it still yells at me that it can't sync saves with the cloud.
Yeah, I fucking know, that was the idea.
Are you worried about a copy of your saved games in the cloud? I've had mine on for years and it makes moving to a new computer super easy.
Aside from not liking being dependent on a internet connection in the first place and tinfoil hat stuff, it was doing something weird with a partition on my old computer so I just disabled the whole thing and didn't look back.
Hates cloud, runs steam...
It's not actually necessary, they're just really bitchy about taking no for an answer.
It's more than Steam is an internet based distribution system. You can't use steam WITHOUT an internet connection.
If you call the Internet the Cloud I will find you.
Bruh, I hate "The Cloud" meme that businesses love today, I selfhost everything I can, but Steam really is a 'Cloud" business. Lots of other people's computers used to store and distribute video games via a custom application.
spoiler
The Internet is The Cloud
You won't see me coming, Nik282000, if that is your real name!
NetBSD also runs on lowspec hardware
But we need to harvest your data for…reasons
Otherwise our profits might suffer! Wouldn’t that be terrible?
I also love how the safe prompts in office 365 are putting "this computer" in quotation marks.
I remember when it was C:/ then it became "this computer" and stuff, to make you forget you have hardware at all or so I feel.
If Microsoft could make you lease your computer and turn it into a terminal, they absolutely would.
This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.
There's advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.
Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems I've fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.
My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.
Wow, that's really garbage. Why is MS trying so hard to push Linux?
Because they know most people won't move to Linux. Most people will stick with whatever absolute garbage they know and will just be annoyed when things continue to degrade, but they won't leave.
Ah, the battered domestic partner business model.
OneDrive needs a PSA that it's a share drive, not extra storage.
No no you misunderstand-- It's primary storage. Your 1TB hard drive is merely a local cache for the $70 OneDrive plan that you for some reason haven't subscribed to yet, but don't worry, you'll get lots of reminders to.
Linux doesn’t make you jump through this hoop 🐧🫡🇺🇸
You know, I use Linux at work but use windows at home. I've been thinking of switching for a while. I think the thing that is going to push me over the edge is the difficulty that I have saving a file to my own god damned computer.
I love automatic backups to the cloud WHEN I CHOOSE TO USE THEM! I'm tired of Microsoft essentially holding my data for ransom, though.
I have a cheap laptop that I got solely for school to run their anti cheat Spyware for online tests. I hadn't turned it on since I updated it and it forced me to make a hotmail/outlook account or I couldn't use the laptop to take my test. Assholes almost made me late for it. Fuck microsoft.
If i can get guild wars 2 to run on Linux I won't need windows anymore
Edit : sorry for the confusion. I have linux running. The next step is to work on gw2. It's the only thing remaining.
May I ask for further clarification on when you tried when running the game?
I haven't tried Guild Wars 2 on Linux however it seems like it works according to ProtonDB.
The biggest irony in all of this is that the integration is so much better on Mac than windows. I think it's because it's less aggressive/less ingrained but the one drive,m365, whatever integration on my work Mac is night and day better than the windows machine I had.
I couldn't stand it. And don't get me started on team's weird SharePoint backend or whatever the fuck they have going on.
FUCK dont get me started on SHAREPOINT I just want to reference a single cell from another LIST why would I want ALL THE ROWS
Part of it is Apple putting the smack down on cloud storage and forcing them to all go to the same place, which is ~/CloudStorage/<>, and follow some semblance of a standard. They don't get to do whatever the hell they want on OSX. People can hate Apple all day, I get it, but some things I appreciate, even if it is super irritating at first.
I have PTSD flashbacks of SharePoint and the ten step process we had to use to interact with it. Then in literally every meeting, "why didn't you read the SharePoint file on that?"
Ha. For a long time, Sharepoint would always ask me to log in, even though I had successfully logged into my laptop and was on the VPN and all of that. I finally called the help desk, and they couldn't figure it out, so they contacted their Sharepoint support, and they couldn't figure it out either.
Eventually, I needed a new laptop...and that fixed the problem.
I am presently working on a presentation for a group of people with average age 57. I need them to start storing files online. My options are windows shared folders, which requires a domain joined PC, of which I have a single loaner for about 80 people, and a VPN connection ... or SharePoint, fml, fuck my life ever so badly.
Alternatively you could go with the email exchange system
Presentation-FINALv3js-legalapproved-v2-11-18-24-redacted.ppt
foobar_v2_with_johns_edits_final_v3_final_final_5.docx this is gonna suck soooo bad
That sounds like a future tech community tell all story in the making.
More like the amazing tale of how the IT guy survived actively drinking himself to death until his mid 40s. It's been told over and over and over again.
Missing a few “got dangs” in there
I tell you h'what that bing ain't right..
Yeah well, good luck getting autosave to work now. If you don’t comply, you lose your privileges.
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