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[-] Saleh@feddit.org 60 points 8 months ago

I also love how the safe prompts in office 365 are putting "this computer" in quotation marks.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 9 points 8 months ago

If Microsoft could make you lease your computer and turn it into a terminal, they absolutely would.

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[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 53 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 29 points 8 months ago

Wow, that's really garbage. Why is MS trying so hard to push Linux?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

Ah, the battered domestic partner business model.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

OneDrive needs a PSA that it's a share drive, not extra storage.

[-] thanks_shakey_snake@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago

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.

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 48 points 8 months ago

This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 47 points 8 months ago

Linux doesn’t make you jump through this hoop 🐧🫡🇺🇸

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 8 months ago

You can make cloud backups whenever you choose on Linux whenever you want, even to OneDrive.

So far I've never had Bazzite nor Mint nor any of my software there force me to put things anywhere.

Just know the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe's software don't really work on Linux systems.

[-] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] andrewta@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Sorry I should have been more clear. I have mint linux installed. The speakers and the headset works. When I get a chance I need to work on gw2. It's the last step. Sorry for the confusion.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 8 months ago

It runs without a problem via steam for me on Linux mint. I don't know how to do whatever setup steam does manually, but you can just launch it through steam and sign in with your anet account. (There's a config option to open the login window instead of using your steam account for login)

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[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

My employer doesn't care what you think.

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 27 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] iamericandre@lemmy.world 18 points 8 months ago

Missing a few “got dangs” in there

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 14 points 8 months ago

Debian, LMDE, Suse, Fedora, whatever. Just pick one and go for it.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

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.

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[-] dennis@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago

NetBSD also runs on lowspec hardware

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

I tell you h'what that bing ain't right..

[-] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago

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...

[-] Agosagror@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

"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

[-] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

F12 to save

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Keep everything local is a great strategy until your house burns down or your hard drive or SSD decides to end it's own life.

I'm not saying that you should use one drive. I'm saying that you should have backups. If all you can get is cloud storage, then one drive might fit the bill. Maybe it won't. I don't know you or what you want from a backup.

I back up my files to a NAS on my lan, but I also use one drive and Google drive when I need to.

All I'm trying to say is: one drive isn't necessarily the worst option. Raw dogging a single local storage drive as your only copy of the data you're trying to hold onto, is much worse than one drive.

Other than that, I'll just reiterate: back up your shit. And I want to add, check your bitlocker to see if it's on. If it is, back up your recovery key to somewhere safe. Bitlocker, in and of itself isn't a bad thing. I would argue that it's best practice to have some kind of FDE, and bitlocker can achieve that. Just back up the recovery key, for the love of God.

Pro tip. "Print" the recovery to a PDF, then email that file to yourself. Quick and easy. The option to save your recovery key to a file, will not allow that file to be saved to the drive that it unlocks, but if you print it, you can save it as PDF without the same limitations. Just don't leave it on the encrypted drive. Literally put it anywhere else. A USB drive, a NAS, an email, cloud storage, whatever you like. I'm not your boss.

Save yourself a metric fuckton of work, and/or lost data; back up your shit.

EDIT, some words (auto carrot), also, WTF? I'm being down voted for saying you should have backups? I expect better from lemmings.

Related, I'm a sysadmin, and I work in IT, and I approve this message. Back up your shit.

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

In my possession are two, what I'll call "master" drives. Two 16TB hard drives, exact clones of each other. They hold the bulk media, old photos, an entire library of books, backups with full emulator and rom sets, games, movies, series, Wikipedia backups, encyclopedias, cookbooks, plant guides, carpentry, mechanics, howtos, compressed into the tiniest dots my processor can manage.

Aside from being a backup for my personal files and configurations, It's essentially an arc of knowledge for societal collapse, granted laser-focused around what I find important, but still, important to someone.

My cousin, who I consider my brother, has a copy of this drive in a small, foam-padded pelican case in his closet. He keeps it for me just in case of a house fire, displacement, or any dangerous situation that renders any of the data at my actual home inaccessible.

While the drives aren't a perfect clone of my network's configurations as-is, that backup runs locally, the drives are 80% of the content I serve and would get me 80% of the way back to complete if anything ever happened. They would individually be invaluable if anything ever happened here or I had a Donnie Darko situation, especially if it's some authoritarian hellscape and the content isn't even available anymore.

Btw if you aren't ramping up your data collection due to the Trump goings on, you better be. Download EVERYTHING.

NOW.

RIGHT NOW.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah well, good luck getting autosave to work now. If you don’t comply, you lose your privileges.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Is this on Windows 11? On 10 I can still direct it to an offline area of my drive.

To be fair people massively misunderstand OneDrive. It's not an extra storage space, it's a file sharing space. Which is incredibly useful in a work environment.

[-] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

If you don’t save your office docs to onedrive, you can’t turn on auto save.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Huh, I just haven't used word in forever. I booted it up just to see, and yeah that's ridiculous.

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