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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 olyjohn »

icameron wrote: post #42

OP doesn’t say why they are against free cloud backup, and it doesn’t matter, but (like everything else in Windows) there’s a registry setting you could change to disable the notification. I think it is ` HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Notifications\ Settings\Microsoft.SkyDrive.Desktop\Enabled = 0 (DWORD) ` https://www.urtech.ca/2018/03/solved-gpos-to-disable-notific...

Oh so Linux is hard because you have to sometimes use the command line. Then people suggest registry hacks to make Windows work properly. Then Microsoft will just flip your registry setting back anyways. Stockholm syndrome is crazy.

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

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Post by crote »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #129
nomilk wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This work is 10x more effort than it sounds too due to how severely mistakes are penalised (i.e. unrecoverable files), necessitating extreme caution. When uploading 10k photos from macOS to Google Cloud using the Google Cloud macOS app, it said syncing had completed about 2 hours earlier than my back-of-the-envelope calculations predicted. "Great", I thought, but was still a bit suspicious, so just in case, before de…

I wish more software companies had a core value of “every user created bit is sacred.” Storage is cheap enough that this attitude is possible. But I guess keeping all of your designers aware of it across thousands of teams is too hard.

> every user created bit is sacred

They only care about the bits they can sell to advertisers. Actual user data is only a burden to them, and occasional data loss is not a big deal.

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

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Post by lukevp »

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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You can have a negative opinion of DHH, but why not provide some context as to why your dislike of him would cause you to think this Linux distro is a bad option? I don’t know anything about the distro.

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

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Post by skeeter2020 »

vee-kay wrote: post #35
grishka wrote: post #15

And Windows itself still costs money somehow, despite clearly acting as a free product.

Windows 10 was indeed offered free worldwide to users already using older licenced versions of Windows. Microsoft even touted Windows 10 as last version of Windows. But it was typical bait-and-switch gambit by Micro$oft, and support for Windows 10 is ending in Oct 2025 (rejecting the pleas from thousands of companies worldwide to extend its Win10 support for longer while), because M$ thinks everyone will migrate to W…

W10 is actually still the majority of windows versions. You can get 1 year extended support by switching to an online admin login & syncing to ONeDrive or buying it (with $ or MS points - whatever that is) and businesses can by 3 x1 year of escalating priced support. Support for win10 ends on Tuesday (oct 14)!

I know all this because my desktop that can easily run triple-A video games isn't good enough (secure boot) to be upgraded, so I'm supposed to buy a MS surface and use it as a boat anchor I guess...

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

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Post by olyjohn »

subscribed wrote: post #47
kwanbix wrote: post #7

Win 10 IoT guys. Or Win 11 IoT. Not more problems.

Yeah, I'm bracing myself for this. I'll get myself £4 licence for this and hope for the best.

It's not a legit licensed copy for you. Sorry. You might as well just pirate it.

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

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Post by olyjohn »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #11

In Ubuntu I turn off motd ads, in Windows I turn off this stuff, it doesn't come back, I only remember it exists when I see the outrage journalism headlines. I don't see why more people don't just take the steps to remove annoyances.

Oh please. The Ubuntu thing isnt even anywhere close. Also you know that there is more than one Linux distro, so nice try justifying it.

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

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Post by skeeter2020 »

DaveZale wrote: post #34
kotaKat wrote: post #8

Can we crowdfund someone going to the Microsoft campuses, heckling every employee nonstop on the grounds, and when security comes up, just tell them "maybe later"?

see what Neil Young has been saying about getting big corporations out of our lives. They skillfully buy out potential competitors and kill them to keep their monopolies.

What he has to say would have been a lot more believable before he sold half his back catalog to a hedge fund. Queue the McDonalds commericial that includes "keep me searching for an arch of gold"...

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

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Post by tavavex »

Why did we universally decide that this stuff is okay to do for businesses? Is it just because it's legal? Imagine if agreeing to things anywhere else in the real world worked the same way it does with Microsoft.

Hi there, would you like me to come in and talk about my religion and what types of nonbelievers deserve to be tortured for eternity? No? Okay, sounds good. I'll just plaster these signs and posters all over your property, so if you change your mind, you'll immediately know where to go. You'll only see them once a day, every time you exit your house! Also, for your own convenience, we'll be watching your front door, and every time you reenter your house we'll be nullifying your past response, so you'll just have to tell no to our faces again.

Hey, I really wanna do this thing with you, do you consent to it? You don't? You say you don't want to see me ever again? Okay, okay, chill out. But in case if you change your mind, I'll be asking you again every day of your life. It's for your own sake. Also, one day, I might see the smile on your face and just "assume" you'd definitely agree. But don't worry, that's just a minor, accidental, technical mishap! I'm committed to helping you and enriching your life. I care about you, don't you see.

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

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Post by brooke2k »

yehat wrote: post #110
Esophagus4 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having run Linux every day, I can say we’re in trouble if that is the reliable option :) (Agree that Liquid Glass is miserable, though.)

Seriously, such remarks add nothing except exposing intended bias. In other words that's called a trolling.

Holding the opinion that Linux is currently the most reliable OS option is "trolling"?

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

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Post by jim_lawless »

I asked ChatGPT to write a Windows GUI C program that looks for a running instance of the onedrive EXE at regular intervals and terminates it while keeping a running log of the attempts in a scrolling window. It took a few iterations to get what I wanted and it was simple to compile with GCC.

You can use a Powershell to see if onedrive.exe is running and kill it with the -force option to do something similar ( ps * onedrive * | kill -force ) with no spaces between the asterisks and the word onedrive, but that turned out to be a little heavier to have running continuously than I wanted.

If you use a process like this, you absolutely need to run it at intervals because the onedrive exe seems to execute at regular intervals.

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