F’ing suck, used to be available to the masses. I hope it will again, but even a raspberry pi is a luxury good these days.
I have failing hard drives in my NAS but they are nearly 4x the price from when I bought them, so I’m struggling to save for replacements. I’m so pissed off that even used enterprise stuff that used to be cheap, is now also luxury goods priced. I will be paying 259.99 for a drive I used to pay 69.99 for.
Or in the rare cases where I do want to save to onedrive. Cool lets dump every document right into the root onedrive folder with zero organization or file tree structure.
I work with a ~50yo engineer who organises files by type. Doesn’t put files related to the project in the same directory. He puts word docs in one folder, excel in another, pdf in another etc.
I’m convinced this has been the plan for some time. My kids don’t see the point of computers when they have their phones and school iPads. They dont understand the concept of data ownership and everything is temporary to them, whatever is fed by the algorithm.
They are better off that most, my hard core nerdiness has rubbed off so they at least know how to use a computer, have built one each themselves. I just hope it continues to be possible going forward, but I’ll be willing to bet, on the other side of the age verification crap, is even more restrictions. They plan a death by a thousand cuts, until it’s no longer feasible, then. No longer legal to run your own compute.
I used to have a little program that would save a file to a user’s desktop. it was made to help with manually compiling files to send out in a package, and every user has a desktop, right? so just save the file there, instead of taking up space on our cloud storage or something (these are often big files, but they only exist for a short period of time)
then OneDrive came along and all of a sudden the tool stopped working, because the desktop folder no longer existed. that was a weird one for me
When I changed over to Bazzite a few months ago, after using nothing but Windows for 30 years, I was so goddamn happy the first time I opened the file manager (to export an MP3 in Audacity).
It was just… Right there. Simple. No bullshit.
One of many sighs of relief from my Linux experience.
I agree that the functionality is sometimes nice, but I would never keep data in just the cloud, at least anything sensitive or valuable. Beyond not trusting someone else with the integrity of my data, I also do not want to be subject to control of it or access to it. Lastly, my data is mine, and in most cloud providers, my data will also be used for AI training.
So, I enjoy using the cloud for some things, I still keep my primary data under my control, in my own known and backed up locations.
As for the forcefulness, there are a lot of us who care deeply about ownership and privacy, and there are a lot of those that dismiss our concerns as invalid or unimportant. Not that you are by any means, just that is what I see frequently.
In between all the well deserved hate they had I had 3 specific incidents that made me go “pero anda a la reputisima madre que te reconchamil pario Microchot!”.
The one of One drive was fucking disgusting. I was preparing an SQL script for a stored procedure. Been saving it in a desktop folder in my VDI. Comes the end of the day I do one last save before log off. Fucker throws a sync error. I pay no heed to it and log off. Now if you’re betting the script was not there anymore next day you’d be right on the money, a whole day of working evaporated cause one drive couldn’t pick the file *from my local folder * and then it decided to delete it leaving a translucid version with a error in the status column. You can guess what the cursing in spanish meant…
This is not accurate, files will sometines be set to “online only” automatically. I had 1 Tb of one drive storage for many years, when I decided to stop using it I had to download houndreds of gigabites of my own files (which took weeks as microslop throttles onedrive downloads)
So many files may be on your system, but if you use it for long enough you’ll find many of your files are online only
They are online only, only if you tell them to be, or they are from another machine/previous install. If you create a new file it isn’t set to online only.
That mode allows you to use them on demand without using up local hd space if you choose to.
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This is exactly why I left (Arch BTW)
In 2026 this is a book for trust fund babies
This actually exists and it’s an ad made by Microsoft and tells a story for kids about a family and their Windows Home Server at home…
https://ia601600.us.archive.org/13/items/mommybook/mommybook.pdf
That server be crashing or laggin before it reaches 20 hours 💔
F’ing suck, used to be available to the masses. I hope it will again, but even a raspberry pi is a luxury good these days.
I have failing hard drives in my NAS but they are nearly 4x the price from when I bought them, so I’m struggling to save for replacements. I’m so pissed off that even used enterprise stuff that used to be cheap, is now also luxury goods priced. I will be paying 259.99 for a drive I used to pay 69.99 for.
If it’s in your own house why would you be using windows
HuRrRrRr
To get some light in the place, make it feel more open, y’know, get a nice view of the garden. See how the weather is.
Or in the rare cases where I do want to save to onedrive. Cool lets dump every document right into the root onedrive folder with zero organization or file tree structure.
I work w college kids… they have no idea how file structures work
I work with a ~50yo engineer who organises files by type. Doesn’t put files related to the project in the same directory. He puts word docs in one folder, excel in another, pdf in another etc.
I hate teams for this. I have to click three times before getting to the file browser saving screen.
This meme is coming full circle with the push by all MLM douchelord slopjocks to make sure no one has an actual computer in their house anymore.
I’m convinced this has been the plan for some time. My kids don’t see the point of computers when they have their phones and school iPads. They dont understand the concept of data ownership and everything is temporary to them, whatever is fed by the algorithm.
They are better off that most, my hard core nerdiness has rubbed off so they at least know how to use a computer, have built one each themselves. I just hope it continues to be possible going forward, but I’ll be willing to bet, on the other side of the age verification crap, is even more restrictions. They plan a death by a thousand cuts, until it’s no longer feasible, then. No longer legal to run your own compute.
Don’t mind me, just dropping in for my daily affirmations that I made the right choice in dumping Microslop two years ago.
My work forces us to save everything to the drive, so anything in our home drives or desktops is automatically backed up.
But not my downloads folder. It is the only spot on my work laptop safe from backup. They’ll never get me.
I used to have a little program that would save a file to a user’s desktop. it was made to help with manually compiling files to send out in a package, and every user has a desktop, right? so just save the file there, instead of taking up space on our cloud storage or something (these are often big files, but they only exist for a short period of time) then OneDrive came along and all of a sudden the tool stopped working, because the desktop folder no longer existed. that was a weird one for me
I fucking hate onedrive so goddamn much.
Why it’s the FUCKING DOCUMENTS FOLDER like five folders deep now?
Fuck you, Microsoft.
When I changed over to Bazzite a few months ago, after using nothing but Windows for 30 years, I was so goddamn happy the first time I opened the file manager (to export an MP3 in Audacity).
It was just… Right there. Simple. No bullshit.
One of many sighs of relief from my Linux experience.
Microsoft wants to start charging you to access your own files…
Don’t they already?
“I don’t want to save my files to someone else’s computer, I want to save my files to my own computer.” should’ve never been a thing, but here we are.
Well honestly cloud storage is pretty useful for some stuff.
It’s the forcefulness that has made most of this kinda shit annoying as hell.
I agree that the functionality is sometimes nice, but I would never keep data in just the cloud, at least anything sensitive or valuable. Beyond not trusting someone else with the integrity of my data, I also do not want to be subject to control of it or access to it. Lastly, my data is mine, and in most cloud providers, my data will also be used for AI training.
So, I enjoy using the cloud for some things, I still keep my primary data under my control, in my own known and backed up locations.
As for the forcefulness, there are a lot of us who care deeply about ownership and privacy, and there are a lot of those that dismiss our concerns as invalid or unimportant. Not that you are by any means, just that is what I see frequently.
Your computer? That you own? In your house?
In between all the well deserved hate they had I had 3 specific incidents that made me go “pero anda a la reputisima madre que te reconchamil pario Microchot!”.
The one of One drive was fucking disgusting. I was preparing an SQL script for a stored procedure. Been saving it in a desktop folder in my VDI. Comes the end of the day I do one last save before log off. Fucker throws a sync error. I pay no heed to it and log off. Now if you’re betting the script was not there anymore next day you’d be right on the money, a whole day of working evaporated cause one drive couldn’t pick the file *from my local folder * and then it decided to delete it leaving a translucid version with a error in the status column. You can guess what the cursing in spanish meant…
it can be defeated. but easier to switch os.
take owner of folder then deny access to all. delete the folder and it will create a new one.
Wait what did MS do now?
Couldn’t be happier to be back to Ubuntu.
Except it is on your local machine. It’s also backed up online and accessible from other machines on your account.
Microsoft will not allow you to enable the auto save feature unless the location is part of OneDrive.
You can manually save to a local store, but that is it.
There are some work around, but it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place.
The one drive folder is still a local folder as well. This meme is just stupid and ignorant.
It’s saved locally and automatically backed up.
You can view it offline and online.
This is not accurate, files will sometines be set to “online only” automatically. I had 1 Tb of one drive storage for many years, when I decided to stop using it I had to download houndreds of gigabites of my own files (which took weeks as microslop throttles onedrive downloads)
So many files may be on your system, but if you use it for long enough you’ll find many of your files are online only
They are online only, only if you tell them to be, or they are from another machine/previous install. If you create a new file it isn’t set to online only.
That mode allows you to use them on demand without using up local hd space if you choose to.
It’s not the “is it on the local drive” that is the problem with OneDrive, now is it?
Guess you failed to read the OP?
Except that word/excel refuse to let me enable “auto save” unless the file location is in a folder that is part of OneDrive.
The only thing ignorant is your comment.
That has zero to do with the topic: one drive files aren’t locally saved.