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No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by thewebguyd »

bigyabai wrote: post #93
delusional wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> feels like a toy for kids. I wish unserious complaining like this wasn't mixed with actual technical criticism of software.

It is very serious. I love the way Catalina and Mojave looks; dark mode or light mode, it just screams "professional" at the top of it's lungs. Big Sur is, somehow, the exact opposite. Corners are rounded off as if they could hurt someone, and margins are padded more than a cell in solitary confinement. Space is wasted everywhere. It's Fischer-Price design philosophy and I'm hardly the only one to point it out. In a…

Agree on all points. Tahoe ruined macOS for me. Not only does it waste screen real estate, but it’s not performant at all and my M4 pro is no slouch.

Just feels like I’m using an iPad now.

Here’s a fun exercise. Look at how huge the window borders are to achieve that insane corner radius. The cursor changes to the resize arrow at the corner before it even touches the window, the bottom arrow is a good 4-5px away from the window lol.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by crote »

nolist_policy wrote: post #97
Podrod wrote: post #36

I used to use Windows Backup with One Drive years ago but it just really pissed me off, especially with how My Documents is handled. There was that time I discovered several GB of screenshots had been automatically saved to My Pictures from some setting they snuck into the printscreen screen grab tool and then that of course those were automatically uploaded to the cloud. After disabling the option it would sometimes…

It's interesting how ChromeOS respects your choices more than Windows here. There is a setting to disable Google Drive and it just works. It won't auto-enable, no popups or nags or anything. Even Google Docs/Workspace falls back to a trimmed down offline version.

On the other hand, Android keeps nagging me about enabling backups in Google Photos. I'm always one accidental click of the huge "Okay!" button in an unexpected popup away from having my data being uploaded to Google.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by olyjohn »

chasing0entropy wrote: post #90

It baffles me how many people on HN cannot operate with a simple deny-all firewall. The windows version and updates I install are the only updates installed. The files I back up are the only files that back up. Nothing can connect to the internet. Not Windows Update, Not google chrome update, Not onedrive, Nor any virus or malware program. Reliance on the internet is the problem. No windows version including windows…

Maybe just don't use Windows and dont write code for it... and especially don't give them $200 for the Pro version, because that is nothing but a signal that you're willing to keep letting him fuck you while you write them a check.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by lukevp »

badsectoracula wrote: post #111
bee_rider wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect the problem they were indicating with “AutoHotKey scripts, lots of them” is that they just have a lot of scripts they’d need to convert. I get it—even switching to a new WM or distro can be a real pain.

Well, they did mention "AHK or equivalent" so it sounds like converting them isn't out of the question.

Things that used to be prohibitive are made much easier with AI these days. Especially tasks like this that do something fairly small and isolated and are easy to test.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by cute_boi »

aboringusername wrote: post #99

I've often wondered if there is a way you can be malicious with this, a way of 'beating' them at their own game. 1: Make random files full of absolute garbage data 2: Upload 5GB of garbage data, delete (free limit capacity) 3: Repeat 1 and 2, forever, 24/7. At 10mbps it would take 68.3 minutes, at 50mbps it would take 13.7 minutes to upload 5gb. At 10mbps you could upload 5gb 7665 times, at 50mbps 38,325 times a year…

i guess they will ban those type of account and the user may not even be able to log in...

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by dimator »

drbw wrote: post #86
pkulak wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would vote for Bluefin: https://projectbluefin.io/ It's very similar to Bazzite, which you listed, but not gamer focused. You get an easy install, auto updates (without reboots), and a bulletproof, immutable OS that is nearly impossible to break. If you want bling and tiling, Omarchy is the new hotness: https://omarchy.org/

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Out of the loop, why not?

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by 9x39 »

At this point, the OS is mostly on autopilot for home users, and I'm not sure that's a bad thing - Google defaults to saving everything in a cloud, and the experience of Google Drive is pretty similar.

The corporate user and the power user are expected to use group policy to control their OneDrive, and they do. You can also sort-of force turn it and other components off with their App Locker system.

The home user probably should just allow it? If you want to plant a flag in the ground and say, no, the computer is mine and it shall obey, I can't argue on that ground except to say indifference among consumers outnumbers you. We accept less than total control in phones, cars, refrigerators...

I do a fair bit of pro bono help with small businesses and older people and the expectation that your computer should just save your stuff is pretty strong. Perhaps it was trained it by non-free software, but I think MS product managers are correct in betting people want Windows to be batteries included when it comes to saving peoples stuff.

Again, the power user has control, you just have to exercise it.

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by Alupis »

tsycho wrote: post #120
badsectoracula wrote: post #12

May i suggest some solutions? :-P -> https://endof10.org/ (it has a map with people who can help install Linux) -> https://www.opensuse.org/ (what i'm using on my PCs, works fine for the most part[0]) -> https://www.linuxmint.com/ (people seem to like this) -> https://bazzite.gg/ (seems to be popular with gamers) -> https://www.debian.org/ (almost everything is based on this :-P) [0] for the most part because nothing…

The only reason I use Windows is for playing some old games (primarily Age of Empires II: DE) that only work well on Windows. In the AoE2 case, I also need CaptureAge that only works on Windows. The point is that even though I have 95% de-Microsoftized my life for the past 2 decades, I still need to run Windows for a few specific flows, and I run into the same issues as the article author here.

AoE2 runs great on Linux[1]

[1] https://www.protondb.com/app/813780

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by smileson2 »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #48

Hope the PM in charge with the scammy copy designed to trick people into turning this on is happy with the boost in free users falling for it. My dad turned it on not knowing what it meant and it completely messed up his workflows and now I have to figure out how to safely disable it and move his files back. I will remember Microsoft causing this problem for him every time I think of or get asked if someone should us…

Face the facts your dad isn't as important as KPIs tied to one drive and 365 subscription numbers, don't blame the PM for making Microsoft money lol

It's not even something you have to "fix" just pay and enjoy

Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive

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Post by instagib »

brushfoot wrote: post #55
badsectoracula wrote: post #12

May i suggest some solutions? :-P -> https://endof10.org/ (it has a map with people who can help install Linux) -> https://www.opensuse.org/ (what i'm using on my PCs, works fine for the most part[0]) -> https://www.linuxmint.com/ (people seem to like this) -> https://bazzite.gg/ (seems to be popular with gamers) -> https://www.debian.org/ (almost everything is based on this :-P) [0] for the most part because nothing…

My main reasons for using Windows right now are: - Davinci Resolve - Adobe suite - AutoHotkey scripts, lots of them - Microsoft Office, mainly PowerPoint, Excel and Word for creating and interacting with other companies' docs. Libre/OpenOffice mangled them/were missing features I depend on - Issues with my laptop's Nvidia card (screen tearing etc.) last time I tried to switch, and rabbit holes that I don't have time…

1. office.com

2. Google drive/docs/*

3. Hacky office on Linux work around - several found on github

Davinci Resolve seems to run faster on Linux.

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