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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (9 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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Because they know most people won't move to Linux. Most people will stick with whatever absolute garbage they know and will just be annoyed when things continue to degrade, but they won't leave.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

OneDrive needs a PSA that it's a share drive, not extra storage.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

No no you misunderstand-- It's primary storage. Your 1TB hard drive is merely a local cache for the $70 OneDrive plan that you for some reason haven't subscribed to yet, but don't worry, you'll get lots of reminders to.

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[–] Lucidlethargy 51 points 1 month ago

This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Welp, they're never going to stop, and they're always going to get more intrusive. Linux is better than it has ever been! Give it a whirl. I suggest Pop!_OS for people who don't want to mess with their system, and Arch for people who love messing with their system.

Edit: Fedora is a nice middle-ground.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

I have a cheap laptop that I got solely for school to run their anti cheat Spyware for online tests. I hadn't turned it on since I updated it and it forced me to make a hotmail/outlook account or I couldn't use the laptop to take my test. Assholes almost made me late for it. Fuck microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

If i can get guild wars 2 to run on Linux I won't need windows anymore

Edit : sorry for the confusion. I have linux running. The next step is to work on gw2. It's the only thing remaining.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

May I ask for further clarification on when you tried when running the game?

I haven't tried Guild Wars 2 on Linux however it seems like it works according to ProtonDB.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry I should have been more clear. I have mint linux installed. The speakers and the headset works. When I get a chance I need to work on gw2. It's the last step. Sorry for the confusion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I think all you have to do is add it to Steam as a non-Steam game and then run it with Proton.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Or add it to Lutris, then it's also click-and-play without needing an account with another proprietary service that needs to run in the background.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

You can also use one of the many Launchers if you don't want to add it to Steam as a non-steam game. Alternatively, you can also launch it directly with proton/wine yourself, though this is the most annoying option.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It runs without a problem via steam for me on Linux mint. I don't know how to do whatever setup steam does manually, but you can just launch it through steam and sign in with your anet account. (There's a config option to open the login window instead of using your steam account for login)

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[–] Lucidlethargy 4 points 1 month ago

My employer doesn't care what you think.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month 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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Missing a few β€œgot dangs” in there

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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?"

[–] BigDanishGuy 4 points 1 month 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.

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

Alternatively you could go with the email exchange system

Presentation-FINALv3js-legalapproved-v2-11-18-24-redacted.ppt

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month 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.

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

You mean Outlook, originally known as Hotmail?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I tell you h'what that bing ain't right..

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month 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...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

F12 to save

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yeah well, good luck getting autosave to work now. If you don’t comply, you lose your privileges.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

But we need to harvest your data for…reasons

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

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