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Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by samiv »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #22

OneDrive is an absolute cancer. I teach Computer Science and my students are constantly accidentally checking their repos out onto onedrive which, of course, makes the performance absolutely atrocious to the point of unusability, and it often affects the weakest students who are most likely to get knocked out of CS by unrelated issues like this. The UI in Windows is intentionally designed to confuse the issue so peop…

It's really sad if you think about that delivering the best desktop UX is all about just not actively sabotaging it on purpose.

Win the game by doing nothing while the competition drives themselves into the ground via enshittification.

After 40 years of computing this is the best we can do? No wonder we can't have nice things.

Maybe the Windows users should be called "victims" at this point.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by tehwebguy »

dkdcio wrote: post #21

maybe I’m just getting old, but I’m really tired of these [super popular product tons of people use but EVERYONE hates it] posts and comments. just quickly checking the Apple App Store, the Onedrive app has 4.7 stars does everyone hate it?

Better question: who the hell is giving these apps (or really any apps) five stars?

I don’t rate the apps I use unless other than to give it 1 star for doing something I hate. My banking app’s transaction search doesn’t work at all, so it gets 1 star. But 1.9M ratings resulted in a 5 star average — who are the freaks giving their banking app 5 stars and why?

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by specproc »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #2

Whelp browsing this on my phone was one way to remind me to put my VPN back on holy crap. In the middle of the article is an embedded TikTok video about the subject of the article while three different ads were overlapping my screen. Unbelievable.

Boingboing used to be brilliant, I got into Doctorow through it. Absolute trash now, so sad.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by tetromino_ »

reddalo wrote: post #19
greatgib wrote: post #7

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Yeah, I agree. Google Photos is super confusing. Why would anybody ever want their pictures to disappear from their phone if they delete them on the web? It doesn't make any sense.

> It doesn't make any sense.

It makes perfect sense to me. I rely on that feature. My monitor is big and it's much easier to use the big screen to sort vacation photos and delete the 90% which are garbage and not worth preserving. When I delete the garbage ones, of course I want to delete them everywhere. (And if I accidentally deleted the wrong photo, I can undelete within 30 days.)

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by xnorswap »

close04 wrote: post #6
JohnFen wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OneDrive doesn't always work fine, though. I avoid it like the plague because a OneDrive screwup caused me loss of valuable data. Was it user error? Maybe, maybe not, but that's irrelevant. If it's so easy to make an unrecoverable and catastrophic mistake, it's a tool that's too dangerous to use on the daily.

> If it's so easy to make an unrecoverable and catastrophic mistake, it's a tool that's too dangerous to use on the daily. Shift+Del and rm -rf don't have any guardrails around them. In tech you are surrounded by footguns and bear traps. MS made it that much worse by wrapping these in dark patterns that may change without notice but the logic that "dangerous things should be prohibited" is a perfectly good way to end…

Shift and -f are the guardrails.

Use `rm -r` and just press Delete if you want to have protection.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by lostmsu »

piker wrote: post #10

Happened to me 2 nights ago with a document my wife was editing on my laptop. I booted up Windows, which forced me to start some process while I was half paying attention. Windows booted normally but my Desktop was missing that critical file. It was in my history? Check Recent documents? Check Visible in the file explorer? Check Desktop? No dice Try to open from the file dialog... error. The message? Can't get it fro…

This story is very unclear on what exactly happened and what caused files to be "deleted". I bet on user error.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by p0w3n3d »

recursivedoubts wrote: post #22

OneDrive is an absolute cancer. I teach Computer Science and my students are constantly accidentally checking their repos out onto onedrive which, of course, makes the performance absolutely atrocious to the point of unusability, and it often affects the weakest students who are most likely to get knocked out of CS by unrelated issues like this. The UI in Windows is intentionally designed to confuse the issue so peop…

enshittification of the NET and now OS continues. The problem is that students nowadays have very little opportunity to learn this. My daughter does not understand what a pendrive is and when the data is on her phone and when on the SD card (meanwhile sd card slots are being sunsetted in all the brands).

This is cartel to remove the data ownership possibility from people. Recently Polish youtuber got his video blocked because he showed how to play locally stored mp3 files (accused of breaking yt policy on allegedly showing people how to download illegal files)

If we allow companies to put an equals mark between not storing your own data in cloud and piracy, this will finish the cartel's objective very fast.

Re: Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files

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Post by aaomidi »

juancn wrote: post #33

Windows is not for doing serious stuff anymore, the only remaining use case for me is a gaming PC (if you turn off all the nags, it's pretty decent). I work on a Mac, I run servers on Linux, I game on Windows.

GPU drivers are legit easier on Linux than they are on windows at this point.
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