Do they train their models on what’s uploaded to onedrive?
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
#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux Mint is terrible. Horribly outdated software, how are they still on X11? Both their DEs are forks which introduces problems... Like, in regular Gnome/KDE land, you have Wayland which is a huge improvement over X11, HDR works, fractional scaling works... None of that works on Mint.
Not sure why you are downvoted, what you said is true. Mint has some WIP to support Wayland in Cinnamon, but it's way behind other DEs and I wouldn't recommend using it.
Voted down because the "Linux Mint is terrible" statement clearly isn't true.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#363Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been a Mac & Linux user since about 2007 or so, and I had no idea what Windows had become. Then a couple weeks ago I caved and built my son a Windows gaming PC. Egads, Windows is annoying! Even more so than I remember! I'm amazed that people actually put up with it for their daily driver. Right on schedule, my son came to me yesterday evening and asked what he should do about the backup warning. It didn't give a…
The only, as per personal exp, way to properly setup a Win11 machine these days is strictly via LTSC release and WinUtil from Chris Titus + local account - clean and no "feature" updates for almost 10 yrs. Add to that Chocolatey for package management that takes away the "every piece of software adds it's own autoupdater crap"-pain and the OS is suddenly very capable for almost all computing needs.
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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#364I recently was forced to get Windows 11 because my new build's motherboard only supported UEFI and there was some incompatibility with my 10 year old Windows 10 boot disk. Windows 11 is an abomination; I paid $200 for a Pro license and I still get ads. My kids will be learning computing on Linux.
It's pretty horrible. When I use Windows, my foremost reaction is "how can they expect me to put up with this?" before walking away in disgust. I get offended, and I'm a sysadmin professionally. Then I remember, in a moment of Eldritch revelation, my mom daily-drives this OS. My siblings and cousins probably use it at work. Billions of people around the world chafe through these lockscreen ads, "live tile" updates, O…
"Are geriatrics really expected to put up with all this theatrical nonsense"
reminds of circa 2000 watching all the new Internet users struggling with the multiple/cascade pop-ups on websites. That's what's so odious about the situation now: The OS bears the same relationship to the user as those spammy websites.
speaking of "geriatrics" I wonder if the youth are actually responsible for a lot of this, unintentionally. this constant line between corporations and my device reminds me mainly of the smartphone experience. And, I'm told, modern videogames. Older folks like me tend to thnk of their desktop OS as inviolate--too many decades when a program phoning home on its own without my permission meant virus or other grave problem. Maybe people who grow up with smartphones don't have this boundary. Msft would know this.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just wish MacOS would allow me to have the Minimize, Maximize/Restore,Close buttons on top-right corner (default in Windows), rather than top-left (which is counter-intuitive for right-handed users, using the mouse). Even Linux allows such basic customization. If Apple allowed this type of user-friendly customisation on MacOS, I suspect a lot of Windows users will migrate to Mac.
I have extreme doubts that there is any meaningful number of windows users holding out on trying macos based on such a thing. The users are much more simple than this. Most have never even tried Mac. If they want to, they will just buy one the next time they need a computer and accept the new experience as being the new norm.
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Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#366I can sympathize a little with Microsoft here. MS got totally angry and fed up with what was happening. I'm not sure how many people really understand how bad ransomware was getting. Microsoft just finally said enough is enough and started implementing counter-measures. Being more forceful about getting people to backup their files is one of them. Yes, it's annoying, and many might say what's the big deal? People's h…
You're anthropomorphizing the lawnmower. Microsoft didn't do this to help or hurt users or ransomware. There's no deeper meaning behind the action past improving business metrics in order to meet goals and please management and shareholders. They're not thinking about good or evil when implementing this, even if the PR firms they hire might make it look that way.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been a Mac & Linux user since about 2007 or so, and I had no idea what Windows had become. Then a couple weeks ago I caved and built my son a Windows gaming PC. Egads, Windows is annoying! Even more so than I remember! I'm amazed that people actually put up with it for their daily driver. Right on schedule, my son came to me yesterday evening and asked what he should do about the backup warning. It didn't give a…
The only, as per personal exp, way to properly setup a Win11 machine these days is strictly via LTSC release and WinUtil from Chris Titus + local account - clean and no "feature" updates for almost 10 yrs. Add to that Chocolatey for package management that takes away the "every piece of software adds it's own autoupdater crap"-pain and the OS is suddenly very capable for almost all computing needs.
It's worth mentioning that 10 also has LTSC variants, the IoT LTSC version in particular will be supported with security updates until 2032 if I recall.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not sure why you are downvoted, what you said is true. Mint has some WIP to support Wayland in Cinnamon, but it's way behind other DEs and I wouldn't recommend using it.
Voted down because the "Linux Mint is terrible" statement clearly isn't true.
Wong wording may be, but the point of the post is correct. Mint just lags behind with Wayland support and in being up to date for handling recent hardware especially.
The former is Mint's specific problem, while the latter is a general problem of all long period release distros that don't take care of updating Linux kernel, Mesa and etc. to actual recent releases.
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#369I 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 * o…
This will wreck havoc on your battery life, consider instead replacing onedrive.exe with a dummy executable and then using NTFS ACLs to deny "TrustedInstaller" permission to modify it
Re: No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive
#370Does big tech understand consent? [ ] Yes [ ] Maybe later
Does big tech _undermine_ consent?
[ ] Yes
[ ] Maybe later