Technology

Seeing all the horror stories in here makes me glad that I recoiled in horror the first time MS offered the idea of me putting my files on their computers instead of mine.

It's infuriating. They silently move all your files to their cloud and you don't notice. Then one day they tell you that you have filled your cloud quota and they want more money. Switching to local only is, by design, a huge pain that tends to go wrong.

Shit like is literally why i have a saved winscript json that gets run on all work machines after "updates"

So I had the weird issue that none of my shortcuts were showing the proper icon, instead showing the blank piece of paper placeholder(even in the taskbar). Was digging through some other settings for something and found a bunch of one drive settings left on. Turned them all off and suddenly my icons are back to normal. Not sure if it was trying to access the files in the cloud instead of locally and wasn't loading them properly or what. Either way, One Drive absolutely fucks a lot of random things up

I often wonder what Microsoft thinks their users do. I'm offline on my computer all the time, whether it's a plane flight or at a place without good WiFi, there's no replacing offline capabilities. Even when I am online, I don't live in silicon valley where there's fiber optic everywhere, and most Comcast users still live with a data cap, I don't want to offload everything onto my internet connection. OneDrive is supposed to be a tool to make switching computers and traveling easier, but the result of how they manage it is the opposite.

Fortunately I have backups on proton drive and Dropbox

Windows is just malware designed to steal files and data from the people "stuck" using it.