the documents folder on the computer that Microsoft has in your house
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How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it's AI. Or some other bullshit.
lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they'll be ready to do it
Not sure if it's still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.
Blizzard used to do that as well with world of Warcraft updates IIRC ( during vanilla )
They did, and we're really up front about it being an opt-in thing, if I remember correctly. Might have started that easy with Microsoft, too. But they can't resist enshitifying.
It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.
And you'll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don't pay, your computer is bricked.
Do I look like I know what a OneDrive is?
All hail the Blessed Virgin!
the most enraging thing i’ve ever experienced on windows was when they started automatically “off-loading” files on my drive because i was running out of space. what the fuck, fuck you, i needed that, die in a fire and never touch my drive again. if i need more space i will fucking make more space
Ah, but those aren't really your files. You clicked "Agree" on the 10,000 page EULA so now Microsoft owns you body and soul and all of your offspring out to the 17th generation. They're just moving around their contracted work product and if you don't like it you can go pound sand, assuming you pay Microsoft $30/mo for the "Pound Sand^TM^" account license.
"Your house, ahahah, nice one! By the way, rent is going up. How much was 'your' raise this year?"
Less than the rate of inflation 😮💨 guess I make less this year than last year.
UMMM ACKTUALLY I've got several charts that say you're richer. You must be lying or lazy. /s
My stupid ass phone keeps demanding me to be connected to the internet in order to view photos that I TOOK ON MY PHONE.
There aren't enough "got dangs" in this meme
Do I look like I know what a got dang is I just want a hotdog of a gribble. You tell me what about accessories and accessory because Alamo propane is like a got dang ladybird I tell you what
The moment a lawyer saves their medical records in a way that unintentionally and without their consent uploads them to OneDrive, they have a pretty solid case to charge Microsoft for a HIPAA violation.
HIPAA doesn't even require encryption. It's considered "addressable". They just require access be "closed". You can be HIPAA compliant with just Windows login, event viewer, and notepad.
(Also HIPAA applies to healthcare providers. Adobe doesn't need to follow HIPAA data protection, though they probably do because it's so lax, just because you uploaded a PDF of a medical bill to their cloud.)
It's so funny watching people have this problem for a literal decade, and they're still complaining instead of using FOSS.
if you think FOSS makes anything better for the average user, especially UX, I have a bridge to sell you.
Whenever I get to use windows and I face their byzantine directory structure, I wonder how people put up with that shit.
The average windows user is tech illiterate. They don’t know what a directory is. I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function. She does not comprehend how or where files are stored.
This. Straight up this. Just fucking use Linux, it's ready for casual everyday use.
My fetish is sending a document as a copy and then seeing someone edit it in realtime while I’m in it.
I want to save to the share drive that looks like a regular folder path.
Always hated how MS forces you to use their shit ... I mean I get it, most wouldn't chose to use them as they are indeed shit
I have OneDrive limited to a single swap meat folder aptly called "dumpster" and it still fucks it up weekly
But, cyborg Bill Gates needs your data to survive. You do want him to survive, don’t you?
Oh man, the memories… it wasn’t so long after “Best of Both Worlds” aired for the first time, that the Bill Gates of Borg meme was going viral on BBSs and Usenet. Oh how we laughed… and cried, for it was funny but true.
This is why i went to Linux. This stuff needs to stop.
you can use O&O shut up 10 ++ to disable onedrive completely, also, there's proton drive.
My cousin sister lost all her files to a malicious script on her pendrive, and I am fixing it right now (at the time of writing this). The unreliable pile of crap called OneDrive didn't even back up properly, and well, Windows has gone so bad, it's terrible,laggy and slow on a Ryzen 5800U with 8GB of RAM. I wish she was open to learning Linux desktop environments.
ah time for horror stories with sparky:
I know of people who work in IT and use onedrive as a shitty version of github for sharing and version controlling code.... If I was them, I'd alteast use syncthing
I've commented on this meme before. All I'm going to say this time is that OneDrive has redeeming qualities. The way that Microsoft pushes it, like many things Microsoft has pushed lately, is pretty shitty.
Quickly: good examples of shitty Microsoft pushes for what they want you to use: persistent pop-ups about upgrading to Windows 10/11 from earlier versions, making the default browser setting in Outlook/office/teams/whatever, to be separate from the system default, and that default is always edge, OneDrive.... I don't need to say more about the push to OneDrive, considering it's the point of the post.
Regarding OneDrive specifically, you can change the default save locations for MS apps to be not OneDrive. However, OneDrive does offer benefits that are great for the less technically savvy, specifically syncing user data (mainly desktop/documents/pictures).... If you don't need a crazy amount of storage for your images/documents, etc, then having the OneDrive backup/sync enabled is a good backup solution. The only thing you need to keep on top of is that OneDrive is actually still connected to the service (logged in) and working as intended. OneDrive seems to have this tendency to logout or expire your connection, so checking on it monthly just to ensure its still backing up is the best practice.
The benefit to this backup is that it's built into Windows, and almost entirely transparent to the user. "Saving to OneDrive" is just putting the information into a dedicated OneDrive sync folder (usually under "C:\users(username)\OneDrive - (account name)" ) which saves locally, then syncs to OneDrive in the background using something similar to the "BITS" service (background intelligent transfer service, also part of Windows).
Since this is normally very transparent to the user, it's good for less tech savvy people, in case they suffer a failure like a hard drive loss, system crash/failure/corruption, lost/stolen/destroyed hardware, etc. All their files are synced/saved to OneDrive and they lose nothing, all they need is a Microsoft account (Hotmail/outlook.com/live.com), and to take the 30s or so to set it up. Then use the computer pretty much normally and their data is safe from loss.
There's an absolute shit ton of alternatives, not just from cloud storage providers. I personally use both OneDrive (personal, on a Hotmail account - free tier, which IIRC is 100G), Google drive, and my Synology. OneDrive on my PC backs up documents/pictures mainly, which I use as a sync to my laptop, and I use "Synology drive" to back up my entire C:\users\username folder to my local NAS. Google drive is exclusively used on-cloud, mainly for shared documents that I collaborate with others on; mainly financial records (no credit/debit/bank info, just costs, etc), and other tracking type documents and stuff I need to share with others.
I won't get into other alternatives just due to the sheer number of them. Needless to say, I'm very contentious of my data and losing it. I am aware that my free/public account data might be anonymised and used to train some AI somewhere, so I tend to be careful about putting any password/account data/confidential data on a service that may have access to something I don't want it to. I use a password manager, so I don't generally keep login info anywhere except there.
Anyways, enough about me, I want to hear what people use for their backups!
The main thing people are upset about isn't that OneDrive exists or that Microsoft is pushing it. It's that updates have made it so that OneDrive folder backup is automatically enabled without user permission. Backing up files to OneDrive without being asked to. That is a privacy nightmare.
I personally host my own copy of Nextcloud and use that for anything I need to sync or back up. I have a regular back up job that snapshots the Ceph cluster it uses for storage and copies it to my own NAS box here in the house, which is automatically replicated via a Nebula network (like TailScale or Zerotier but fully self-managed) to an identical NAS at my parents' house across town.