• Crozekiel@lemmy.zip
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          13 days ago

          These aren’t “tech related” problems, they are “windows is shit and abusive to the user” problems.

        • bishbosh@lemm.eeEnglish
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          14 days ago

          Really it’s restraint to only offer it as a solution to tech problems, because install more linux is my solution to all problems.

          • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            13 days ago

            Wife left you? Should have installed Linux on her devices. Then again I know a guy who did that and still has SSH access.

      • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world
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        14 days ago

        It was for a client at work, so I couldn’t. I don’t know how to install Linux, either. I’m going to try once I get a charger for my old laptop. It isn’t a big priority though. I’ve been playing around with my Steamdeck in desktop mode to try to learn some Linux stuff and it’s been going okay.

        • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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          14 days ago

          I use ubuntu btw for many years now and it’s not as scary as it might sound. Quite user friendly at this point and you can just download the .iso and install it.

  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    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.

    …

    Ctrl+S

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Some of us have to use Windows at work. It’s awful.

        I know a few people were given Macs on request, I wonder if I could get a Linux machine… Everything we do is web based or on a remote desktop.

  • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    “Let’s finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don’t need!)”

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    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.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Usually when I see the same meme reposted over and over, I start to downvote. But not this one. This one always gets an upvote from me.

  • Zink@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    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.

  • Nightwatch Admin@feddit.nl
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    15 days ago

    Onedrive is the love baby of Webdav and ftps , born with dysentery because of life in a piss poor country. The humane thing to do… well, you know.

  • inriconus@programming.dev
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    14 days ago

    As annoying as it is being set this way by default, it’s easily avoided by right clicking on the user folder to move ( documents|desktop|video|etc) folders in File Explorer -> Properties -> Location tab.

    Then either: Type in: C:\users[your current user]\Documents (or which ever user folder being changed)

    Or

    Click Move and browse to and select the local folder you want to use.

    Click apply, it will ask you if you want to move contents from the original location as well.

    Click yes, and now your user folders will be and will stay local. I haven’t had any issues since and have had that set for years on my windows PCs.

  • Notyou@sopuli.xyz
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    15 days ago

    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.

    • FiveMacs@lemmy.ca
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      15 days ago

      I just disable it on system boot. Company hates that I’m not using OneDrive…

      I’ll throw crap in SharePoint, but I also won’t use that dogshit ‘service’ either.

      I don’t want people touching my reports. It’s my shit. View only.

    • CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de
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      15 days ago

      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).

    • garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      I absolutely hate OneDrive and similarly to you would go out of my way to save on my device for work. We had to upgrade to win11 recently and now all my documents, pictures, etc automatically redirect to OneDrive… :| this is an “improvement” according to them.

      Also the amount of copilot that’s being pushed on us. I know AI can do lots of things but holy God let me read my own fucking emails.