• Mostly_Gristle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    This bullshit was basically my first experience with Windows 11 when I got a new PC last year. Literally, “Why is my internet so slow? What’s this OneDrive thing? Oh, holy shit fucking stop Jesus Christ!”

    Just automatically started uploading everything on my hard drive to an account I didn’t set up, without even a prompt telling me it was happening, and no obvious way to make it stop. I didn’t even know Windows had added a cloud storage option. I actually had to completely uninstall OneDrive to finally make it stop.

    I might have liked having a native backup service in Windows if it was like, “Hey look at this handy cloud storage tool we’ve added to Windows! Would you like to pick some files to save?” But as it is, it might as well just be another piece of spyware.

    There’s a big long list of reasons why I hate Windows 11, but this OneDrive shit is the thing that’s making me think maybe it’s time to ditch Windows for good.

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      3 months ago

      The extra fun part is when it starts bitching at you for filling up the cloud storage allotment that you didn’t know you were using.

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    3 months ago

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

    I don’t need you bish, fuck off.

    • retrospectology@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Oohh, that’s a good way to potentially break this. Just download a ton of useless stuff and upload it onto OneDrive. People could make this service really expensive for Microsoft.

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        3 months ago

        better yet upload gigabytes of senseless text and photos and let Microsoft train their AI on that

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          3 months ago

          Double whammy is a good idea.

          I want to take a picture of a brick and duplicate it over and over, then zip those up and duplicate that zip into OneDtive until it tells me I can’t any more.

  • umbrella@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    bullshit like this is getting worse and worse and is why i moved away from windows.

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      3 months ago

      Its been their practice since the early 90s. Bundling and defaulting all their shitty apps, then making sure everything else has compatibility issues by design.

      The worst thing to happen to Microsoft was the IETF. It shattered their walled garden and forced them to integrate with a host of other internationally developed and encoded systems through a uniform protocol. They’ve spent the last 30 years trying to claw their position of OS dominance back.