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[–] [email protected] 155 points 3 months ago (1 children)

the documents folder on the computer that Microsoft has in your house

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it's AI. Or some other bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they'll be ready to do it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Not sure if it's still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Blizzard used to do that as well with world of Warcraft updates IIRC ( during vanilla )

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They did, and we're really up front about it being an opt-in thing, if I remember correctly. Might have started that easy with Microsoft, too. But they can't resist enshitifying.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

And you'll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don't pay, your computer is bricked.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do I look like I know what a OneDrive is?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

All hail the Blessed Virgin!

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

the most enraging thing i’ve ever experienced on windows was when they started automatically “off-loading” files on my drive because i was running out of space. what the fuck, fuck you, i needed that, die in a fire and never touch my drive again. if i need more space i will fucking make more space

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah, but those aren't really your files. You clicked "Agree" on the 10,000 page EULA so now Microsoft owns you body and soul and all of your offspring out to the 17th generation. They're just moving around their contracted work product and if you don't like it you can go pound sand, assuming you pay Microsoft $30/mo for the "Pound Sand^TM^" account license.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Your house, ahahah, nice one! By the way, rent is going up. How much was 'your' raise this year?"

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Less than the rate of inflation 😮‍💨 guess I make less this year than last year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

UMMM ACKTUALLY I've got several charts that say you're richer. You must be lying or lazy. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

FaMiLy InCoMe Go Up MeAnS YoU aRe Ok!

...ok, but I'm a "family" of one and your stupid fucking metric is counting multiple incomes as one...

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

My stupid ass phone keeps demanding me to be connected to the internet in order to view photos that I TOOK ON MY PHONE.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

maybe change your gallery app to something else?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There aren't enough "got dangs" in this meme

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The moment a lawyer saves their medical records in a way that unintentionally and without their consent uploads them to OneDrive, they have a pretty solid case to charge Microsoft for a HIPAA violation.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

HIPAA doesn't even require encryption. It's considered "addressable". They just require access be "closed". You can be HIPAA compliant with just Windows login, event viewer, and notepad.

(Also HIPAA applies to healthcare providers. Adobe doesn't need to follow HIPAA data protection, though they probably do because it's so lax, just because you uploaded a PDF of a medical bill to their cloud.)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

https://www.hipaajournal.com/onedrive-hipaa-compliant/#

Totally feasible to use onedrive.

However I've got no sympathy for even a small business to use IT without someone configuring their system in a way that controls this. A lawyer of all people know that knowledge is worth something.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's so funny watching people have this problem for a literal decade, and they're still complaining instead of using FOSS.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (9 children)

if you think FOSS makes anything better for the average user, especially UX, I have a bridge to sell you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Whenever I get to use windows and I face their byzantine directory structure, I wonder how people put up with that shit.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The average windows user is tech illiterate. They don’t know what a directory is. I work with a person who opens .docx files by opening Word and using its internal search function. She does not comprehend how or where files are stored.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (20 children)

This. Straight up this. Just fucking use Linux, it's ready for casual everyday use.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

My fetish is sending a document as a copy and then seeing someone edit it in realtime while I’m in it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I want to save to the share drive that looks like a regular folder path.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Always hated how MS forces you to use their shit ... I mean I get it, most wouldn't chose to use them as they are indeed shit

I have OneDrive limited to a single swap meat folder aptly called "dumpster" and it still fucks it up weekly

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But, cyborg Bill Gates needs your data to survive. You do want him to survive, don’t you?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

Oh man, the memories… it wasn’t so long after “Best of Both Worlds” aired for the first time, that the Bill Gates of Borg meme was going viral on BBSs and Usenet. Oh how we laughed… and cried, for it was funny but true.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

My cousin sister lost all her files to a malicious script on her pendrive, and I am fixing it right now (at the time of writing this). The unreliable pile of crap called OneDrive didn't even back up properly, and well, Windows has gone so bad, it's terrible,laggy and slow on a Ryzen 5800U with 8GB of RAM. I wish she was open to learning Linux desktop environments.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

you can use O&O shut up 10 ++ to disable onedrive completely, also, there's proton drive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

For the uninitiated (like me before searching for this):

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What form of esoteric incantation is this?! Witchcraft!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

ah time for horror stories with sparky:

I know of people who work in IT and use onedrive as a shitty version of github for sharing and version controlling code.... If I was them, I'd alteast use syncthing

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In 2003 I could have made a living selling subscriptions to 5-GB cloud storage that was tightly integrated into Windows.

I understand why Windows is trying to capture you into it's cloud ecosystem. Just saying that between M$, Apple, and Google you can do some robust backups, basically for free. And if you're worried about privacy, just encrypt.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Encrypt your files before upload them to OneDrive this way you use Microsoft servers and your files cannot be accessed by them to train AI and sell your personal data

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