How, exactly, should you have seen this coming? Elaborate on your thoughts.
I want to save to onedrive, the one drive on my computer.
YOU HAVE A VIRUS!!
Download NORTON NOW!!!
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OneDrive usurping my folders and data, siphoning it to their servers without my permission (just like a virus) is exactly why I switched to Linux. It’s such a breath of fresh air not feeling like every update is trying to monetize and enshittify my computer more
Honestly OneDrive replacing the local folders is what made me fully switch to Linux
auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they've done to windows. like you don't even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data.... which adds 'most frightening thing done' as well.
and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don't even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they're re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.
It seriously pissed me off so much. Like how could I possibly trust the OS after that? Literally just like a virus! Windows has pissed me off for a solid decade but that was waaay too far over the line for me to shrug it off yet again
Do I look like I know what a jay peg is?
Also yes this is crazy. I would recommend installing Linux to fix this issue.
LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX
You've got the right idea :)
I love my computer so much more since I switched to Linux
Switch to Linux, this shit doesn't happen unless you set it up.
Some people have jobs.
Yeah, people who know how to use Linux
All of my personal machines are Linux. I'm forced to use Windows for work, like nearly all knowledge workers. You'll find out about it when you grow up.
You know whats cool? Office programs like excel and word have an 'autosave toggle', and you know what it does? "Please log into one drive to enable autosave".
Thats right, you cant have a local autosave, you MUST be saving to one drive.
Cool, thanks, no.
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I do feel a bit like a Hank Hill when I rant about this or any other newer, unwelcome features. No, Outlook, I don't want you to finish my sentences, you are wrong 100% of the time and I'd rather do it myself gosh dang it.
Quick vent. My job introduced OneDrive and cloud shit through Microsoft. Yeah. I still have to tell my computer to save on itself. I'm not using OneDrive.
I hear my coworkers bitch about it all the time. It's not syncing. I can't save or change this or that. I can't find it when I'm trying to open it. Why is this green or yellow? What's up with this check? They always ask me for help because I'm the younger one that knows more about computers. I respond that I don't do cloud shit. I want to know where my info is, but they keep on wanting me to figure it out for them.
I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.
I guess cloud computing is my old man yelling at clouds line.
Not necessarily. Cloud storage is great for off-site backups and collaborative working on projects, but Onedrive, 365 and the rest of the Microsoft stuff is the problem. It's clunky, overloaded and generally a pain in the ass to manage. It is successful mostly because everyone already works with Microsoft stuff, especially their office suite, and Microsoft makes it really annoying (and in some places difficult) to go around it.
At my last job I had to implement and manage a lot of 365 and Sharepoint and I find my private Nextcloud more comfortable (and there are hosters who offer Nextcloud as a partially managed service so that in a company environment you'd mostly just need to administer users and small, easy stuff). If for usability alone I'd put Google's cloud services and collaborative office environment before Microsoft's (they're still both shitty megacorps and I recommend staying away from both, though).
"And for the love of god stop letting programs put their crap here"
Getting OneDrive uninstalled fully is a nightmare. I got rid of it but it was still trying to sync. Like wtfff
OneDrive to rule them all, OneDrive to subscribe them
OneDrive to pester them all and in the darkness sync them
In the land of Microsoft, where the data lies.
"Let's finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don't need!)"
I extremely don't want to save on my computer, though.
The problem with OneDrive isn't that it's a cloud service. I willingly use cloud services and other forms of remote storage all the time.
The problem with OneDrive is it doesn't work and MS's response to that is to try to embed it into the OS, rather than fix it. I have paid good money to do what OneDrive is trying to do, just properly.
OneDrive and all of M365 is much nicer on Linux. It’s all just webpages that I use when I need them (pretty regularly) but that don’t interfere with anything else going on with my system.
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