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

Post by justinclift » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 12:51 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #234

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…

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…

Post by queenkjuul » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:19 PM UTC

zaptheimpaler wrote: post #317

McGlockenshire wrote: post #277

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> made a political comment someone didn't like It should be noted that this specific framing ("it's just a disagreement," "someone didn't like it," "it's nothing big") is used by the people that, instead, like the "comment." It's an extremely common pattern. So is one of the words he uses later, "histrionics." The comment in question is an ethnonationalist blog post. Not a comment somewhere, but an actual goddamn ess…

I'm one of the immigrant groups people don't seem to like very much these days, but even I recognize some degree of ethnonationalism or desire to restrict immigration is NOT bigotry. I can empathize how jarring it must be to begin to feel like a minority in your own country - even if they aren't minorities nationally, they may be in local urban pockets. Unfettered immigration IS causing problems in many places, is of…

Post by whyoh » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 2:31 PM UTC

EmptyCoffeeCup wrote: post #427

whyoh wrote: post #424

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>disables their OS unless they turn on iCloud on their Mac -- then you can claim equivalence What do you mean? Windows doesn't do that. Contrary to what the blog post claims, you can easily uninstall OneDrive (unlike iCloud). And using Windows without an online account is possible, although the process is cumbersome enough to deter the average user.

Wasn't there a post the other day saying they'd moved it from "Ballache" to "All but impossible" to use a local account in 25H2?

Post by beaugunderson » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 3:33 PM UTC

Post by efreak » Mon, Oct 13, 2025, 4:22 PM UTC

GeekyBear wrote: post #389

ajkjk wrote: post #218

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the fact that you have to have an apple account to do all kinds of basic developer tasks (installing Xcode / Xcode command line tools, which are needed for lots of stuff last time I checked (a few years ago?)) is evidence that they suck also. But not nearly as bad as Microsoft who are actively scum from the moment you first turn the computer on.

"I need a free developer account to download Xcode" is certainly more user friendly than "I have to pay a subscription fee or pay up front to use Visual Studio".