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[–] xspurnx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

As soon as I saw that mustache I wanted to get out my knife as well.

[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Hey, moustaches make you a better programmer

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I remember having a 90$ Android phone that was also loaded with bloatware.

I'd like to find a phone that isn't, mine is certainly full of crap I don't want.

[–] fishy@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Almost all the new hires at work save shit to one drive and teams and it's incredibly annoying to locate anything. Just save it to the dang shared drive.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I had to force people in our lab to use the shared drive, they were all so resistant to it for some reason. Lo and behold they love it now because its easy to share stuff and you can use any computer to get it.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

The cloud is just someone elses computer, you could pay 19.99 a year for 100 gbs of storage on some shady corporations server somewhere for them to inevitably jack up the price. Or you could not be an idiot and buy a 128 gb flash drive for 14.99 one time and have that storage forever.

[–] Jyek@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Flashdrives are not forever storage. Flashdrives corrupt literally all the time. And old flashdrives that sit around also corrupt while not in use. If you care about your data, store that data in multiple places. Follow the data hygiene rules. 3 2 1: 3 copies of the data, on 2 different storage mediums, with 1 copy off-site.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Got it so buy a second drive, and pay $15/mo to the cloud storage company.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

You think you can do better for 15 dollars go ahead.

[–] fiddlesticks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

TBF that's forever until your house burns down with it inside

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 hours ago

or the drive wasn't plugged in for a long time, causing the flash storage to degrade

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

OOAPB says go away and o&o shutup10 says shut up. Coupled with winutil power shell script you can take control of the your macroshaft product.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 https://www.oo-software.com/en/ooappbuster https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

"Just run these scripts with admin access to protect yourself from data mining and bloatware."

#JustWindowsThings

[–] Redkey@programming.dev 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I recently wasted multiple evenings going through this with my partner's photos on both OneDrive and Google. It was a nightmare, trying to disentangle their systems from the cloud, and delete stuff from the cloud (they were hitting the free quotas, which was causing problems) without also deleting that content locally.

I ended up doing a full backup from the cloud to an external drive and unplugging it just to be sure, then carefully using the awful web interfaces to delete a bunch of photos and videos from the cloud after deactivating all the auto-backup "options", which is apparently the only way to do it without also wiping your local media. There doesn't seem to be any way to do it while using the "service" normally on the device; any attempt to delete from the cloud will also delete your local copy.

People have called me paranoid for seeking out and removing/deactivating these "services" with extreme prejudice on my own devices, but this experience was even worse than I'd imagined.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 14 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, such a service, deleting your files!

I ran into a fun one where both google and Xiaomi backed up my photos, that was a nightmare to save and clean out. They would write back deleted files (hey look we restored your list files!) and the other service would back them up again lol.

It's almost as it's not meant to be useful but a trap to fall into eh.

[–] atlien51@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

OneDrive: fuck no you’re not doing that shit

[–] NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Something, something, Linux, something, something, autism.

[–] Custodian6718@programming.dev 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

now to be fair, you can organize your onedrive too

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 5 points 7 hours ago

I don't want to.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 5 points 9 hours ago

My end user had three documents.

  1. In oneDrive, localised to Spanish
  2. In oneDrive, still in English
  3. The actual document folder

Guess where they put all the files that I wanted to be put in /documents?

[–] czech@lemm.ee 137 points 19 hours ago (10 children)

I love my jobs implementation of onedrive. It copies files from my hardrive, erases the local copy, and then loses the remote version.

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 97 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] scheep@lemmy.world 18 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Why MIcrosoft can't develop a good desktop app when they have a huge amount of money and loads of staff. Not to mention owning the operating system a majority of people use, meaning the app, syncing, backing up, etc. can be super optimised for it without any fuss for using workarounds. NO MS, PUTTING ALL MY FILES INTO A "OneDrive" FOLDER IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. WHY IS THERE TWO OF THEM??? "OneDrive" and "OneDrive - [org name]"???? WHAT??? AND YOUR TASKBAR ICON THING FOR ONEDRIVE IS ANNOYING. WHY CAN'T I QUIT ONEDRIVE WITHOUT OPENING THE MENU?????????

Thankfully I switched to more competent cloud providers. pCloud is pretty good, they just sync your files. No stupid "moving all your folders into a pcloud folder and making two of them one of which is empty for some reason". Super duper simple. And pcloud definitely has many times less budget and staff than MS. Jottacloud is also great, pretty similar to pcloud in that it only syncs files. WHY ARE THESE MUCH SMALLER COMPANIES DOING A WAY BETTER JOB THAN MS???????

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The reason MS puts all the main folders in onedrive is because users are tech illiterate. Most dont understand they need to place files into a special directory to be swished away to the cloud service. I know, because I've done the same thing when i setup my parents pc with linux... no matter how many times i explain "just place the files in this folder to automatically synced" all their files just up in the standard home directories never to be synced. I ended up just symbolic linking the home directory to one in the cloud directory. >_>

Now how MS managed to even fucked that up.... well thats a whole other story.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

that makes sense...but why is there two of them? That's really weird. And I don't think they want you to quit OneDrive...

Also, since they own the operating system (Windows), they could easily just sync the folders directly. (Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music, and Videos) That's where most people put their files in, so why not just sync that? Why move everything into a special OneDrive directory with all the issues that comes with that?

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