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.
I extremely don’t want to save on my computer, though.
The problem with OneDrive isn’t that it’s a cloud service. I willingly use cloud services and other forms of remote storage all the time.
The problem with OneDrive is it doesn’t work and MS’s response to that is to try to embed it into the OS, rather than fix it. I have paid good money to do what OneDrive is trying to do, just properly.
One Drive works fine 98% of the time. But the 2% of the time it doesn’t can make a huge mess. I’ve lost an entire days worth of work on an Excel workbook due to auto save issues and it’s happened more than once. The last time it happened was the last straw. That’s when I switched back to an SMB share.
Yeah, that’s the problem with “works well 98% of the time”. It’s fine for a random bug in a videogame where maybe you clip into the floor a bit. When it comes to important files, “losing your work 2% of the time” is what you call not being functional.
Google Drive is a better solution, you save it to your hard drive, and it’s also in the cloud automatically.
It is, which is insane, considering the lenghts to which MS goes to integrate OD right at the OS level.
Either way, as with all office software it’s not generally up to you which one to use and I end up using both. It’s just that OD has a much higher chance to randomly decide the project I’ve been working on for days has never existed.
OneDrive to rule them all, OneDrive to subscribe them
OneDrive to pester them all and in the darkness sync them
In the land of Microsoft, where the data lies.
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.
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
Why do you continue to use software that abuses you? Try LibreOffice or even Google.
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.
I mean technically any machine is a potential Linux machine…
Fuck M$ 365, good old Office 2019.
Also fuck Teams, but that is a whole different story.
You have a house?
Step 1: Hide in a rich person’s mansion.
Step 2: Wait 21 years.
Step 3: Claim Adverse Posession. 😎
Getting OneDrive uninstalled fully is a nightmare. I got rid of it but it was still trying to sync. Like wtfff
Just install Linux at this point.
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.
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.
This seems to be the answer to all tech problems on Lemmy
Really it’s restraint to only offer it as a solution to tech problems, because install more linux is my solution to all problems.
Wife left you? Should have installed Linux on her devices. Then again I know a guy who did that and still has SSH access.
These aren’t “tech related” problems, they are “windows is shit and abusive to the user” problems.
“And for the love of god stop letting programs put their crap here”
This happened on my work computer and fucked up a lot of software.
“Let’s finish setting up windows (by asking you to subscribe to something you don’t need!)”
OneDrive usurping my folders and data, siphoning it to their servers without my permission (just like a virus) is exactly why I switched to Linux. It’s such a breath of fresh air not feeling like every update is trying to monetize and enshittify my computer more
My wife made a giant folder called garbage she shoves stuff that she copied out of Windows to put in OneDrive so it can’t fit her files when it decides to randomly start uploading again.
Honestly OneDrive replacing the local folders is what made me fully switch to Linux
It seriously pissed me off so much. Like how could I possibly trust the OS after that? Literally just like a virus! Windows has pissed me off for a solid decade but that was waaay too far over the line for me to shrug it off yet again
auto-enabling that is, perhaps, the single most annoying thing they’ve done to windows. like you don’t even get a fucking choice when they do it, they just take your data… which adds ‘most frightening thing done’ as well.
and onedrive is also configured to cloud-first. you don’t even have your files on your hardware unless you go back and access them again (so they’re re-downloaded) or reconfigure onedrive to put them all back.
You can just uninstall it, you do realise that right? Making Onedrive fuck off and stay fucked off is pretty easy to do.
Snaps…
No one forces you to use Snaps or a distro that enforces Snaps.
I suppose Ubuntu could count as an exception…
Luckily there are plenty of choices, Fedora is my personal fav
Download ISO from M$, wipe and install, uninstall One Drive, done. Betting you got fucked using the Dell or HP or whatever factory install.
Only enshittification I see is a single sentence on my lock screen. Don’t care, used a Windows crack, paid nothing.
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Remember ladies and gents. It’s not cloud storage it’s someone else’s computer.
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.
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.
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).
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.
Do I look like I know what a jay peg is?
Also yes this is crazy. I would recommend installing Linux to fix this issue.
LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX LINUX
You’ve got the right idea :)
Penguin, penguin …
I love my computer so much more since I switched to Linux
