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[–] superkret 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Ulrich_the_Old@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 days 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

But we need to harvest your data for…reasons

Otherwise our profits might suffer! Wouldn’t that be terrible?

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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 2 days ago (7 children)

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 2 points 2 days ago

NetBSD also runs on lowspec hardware

[–] Saleh 61 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 51 points 4 days ago (10 children)

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 27 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 days ago (35 children)

Linux doesn’t make you jump through this hoop πŸ§πŸ«‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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.

[–] 7toed@midwest.social 5 points 2 days ago

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

[–] jadedwench@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Remember SharePoint is just Visual SourceSafe for documents, with a bad editor .

Anyone who's worked with VSS will have the PTSD to know what's going to happen. We don't know when you're going into lose eveything, but we know it'll happen. MS rolling their own bad CVS is like MS rolling their own email infrastructure.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mean Outlook, originally known as Hotmail?

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Exchange, formerly known as "what if we made an email server, but it's database is Microsoft Access?"

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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?"

[–] limelight79@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] cybersandwich@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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