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Microsoft won’t let you close OneDrive on Windows until you explain yourself (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is Microsoft’s latest annoying addition to Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

so, a pdf 'printer' basically. anything you print gets dumped to pdf files... which can be previewed, searched, annotated, organized into directories (piles) etc. as well as sent to and shared with others, or even printed on a dead tree.

most of my 'printing' is already done this way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually, yes. And make it compress and process the PDF real slow-like with a bunch of horrible noises that are frightening to pets.

My intent though is to avoid the inclusion of dead trees in this process, but still create an analog for all the horrible inconveniences of printing on dead trees that my older tech support clients argue are features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

it really should just be a print process that inevitably fails with an incomprehensible error code or a demand for money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

"PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

A boring dystopia

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

make it compress and process the PDF real slow-like with a bunch of horrible noises that are frightening to pets.

DOT MATRIX PRINTER NOISES INTENSIFY

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Instructions unclear; reader broke when I tore off the perforated edges; paper accordion fold appears impossible

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Dot Matrix Printer: IT IS ALL PART OF MY CHARM

Now I'm wondering if I could combine the dot matrix printer sound with the sound a 9600 baud Hayes modem makes when someone in the house picks up a phone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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