Microsoft quietly changed how folder backup works in the OneDrive app on Windows 11. Now, the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
  • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Lately, Windows 11 has been a one sussy baka. Windows, I don’t know, man, it’s almost like we have an impostor among us.

  • RBWells@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I got a new laptop at work and everything, every file I worked in, was creating a second copy of itself on OneDrive. It was so annoying and took awhile but I found instructions on deleting the duplicates.

    It took all the files off my local machine and left the ones on OneDrive.

    Aaaargh!

    • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, it did this to me a few months back. Got the files back local eventually but it was a big pain in my arse. If I had time to learn another os I’d already be gone. Seems like Microsoft is determined to asset-strip whatever good reputation their product had left.

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 days ago

        If you start with something like PopOS, Linux Mint, or Universal Blue the learning curve shouldn’t be too high.

    • zingo@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Sorry to break the spell but Windows 12 will be worse. Might even be subscription based.

            • wanderingmagus@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 days ago

              It’s an always-on AI that sits directly on your device inside a built-in Neural Processing Unit, or NPU, which takes screenshots every 5 seconds and scans the screenshots for information - including passwords, banking information, and other forms of PII. It then stores all of that information completely unencrypted, in a format that has been proven almost immediately after the beta preview to be able to be exfiltrated within seconds, easily, by a very simple piece of malware. The company claims that all the information is only stored locally, and after the backlash, that the AI would be opt-in only, but we’ve seen what Microsoft does with their “promises” before.

  • azenyr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    And yet people will just shrug it off and keep using windows. And Microsoft loves that.

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Oddly enough, OneDrive is the least of my problems with windows. It’s pretty handy at work since I have to juggle tasks between multiple PCs. My only hang up with Linux is games, which is odd since time wise I don’t spend most of my time there.

  • polle@feddit.orgEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Win10 ending, copilot and this shit. Finally pushed me over. Going to order a new ssd and install mint on my main rig.

      • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I installed Fedora as a dual boot 2 months ago, and I haven’t once booted up Windows in that time. Everything just worked. Now that I feel a bit more confident I’m going to wipe the entire drive and try Fedora Atomic.

      • nul9o9@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 days ago

        I kept my Windows drive in my pc when I switched to linux, I wanted to be able to mount it to grab stuff I missed or boot into it incase I needed it.

        I haven’t even mounted it for close to a year.

        • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          4 days ago

          When I rebuilt mine a few months back, I got two drives so I could put windows on one of them, and mounted my old drives for the same reason… I’ve barely touched the old data and the second SSD has not even been formatted yet, and when I do it’ll probably be to give my current system more space

  • Jimmybander@champserver.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I have to use Outlook for work. It is so annoying to have to avoid the one drive attachment option everytime I attach a file to an email. Nobody wants to be forced to deal with that crap.

    • cybermass@lemmy.caEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I legit don’t understand why this exists. Why would anyone want a bunch of shit in their OneDrive to have a permanent link?

      Microsoft just loves money at the expense of quality products.

  • CrowAirbrush@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I just turned it off as it kept bitching about the storage being full.

    I don’t need you bish, fuck off.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    For starters, bulk copying a person’s documents without their approval sounds like mass copyright violation.