• @grue@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    Imagine thinking you own your computer if it runs Windows instead of Free Software.

  • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOP
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    03 months ago

    They set me up a new Remote Desktop at work, and I couldn’t use it to do my work because OneDrive was trying to sync the whole contents of my Desktop to that machine, when that machine exists primarily to do work that is too network intensive to do from home effeciently.

  • What about a link? I could let you have a link you could save to your documents folder? Would you like that? Would you like a link you could save and you could still save your actual file to our cloud? When you have internet trouble and can’t load your damn file you could stare at that link and know that when your internet is working again, your file will be right there in the cloud for you. Wouldn’t that be nice?

  • Lka1988
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    03 months ago

    Deleting onedrive is one of the first things I do when installing windows.

    • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOP
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      03 months ago

      If a PC is my property the first thing I do is delete windows. But now-a-days I nearly never use hardware that I own.

    • goferking (he/him)
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      03 months ago

      Not possible on work machines when they keep pushing for that.

      no I don’t want to put these work downloads or logs in my cloud storage

      • Lka1988
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        03 months ago

        You shouldn’t be using a personal email on a work machine…

          • Lka1988
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            03 months ago

            Then why do you give a shit? Work manages what goes on the work-managed OneDrive on the work-managed account. That’s how it works on my work laptop, too.

            • goferking (he/him)
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              03 months ago

              Because I don’t want to have to filter it out later when trying to find something later in onedrive.

  • @HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    OneDrive scans all the files on your computer regardless of whether it’s on or not.

    Just delete the software and only use it from your browser.

    Or just delete Windowa and use Linux.

  • @HorreC@lemmy.world
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    03 months ago

    Sounds like you need to take a weekend with a linux live distro and just try it out see if you are more compatible with that. Here is a place that has a bunch.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    This reminded me to install onedrive for linux. I mean, I have 105 GB of free cloud storage on my OneDrive, it’d be dumb not to take advantage of it even though I’ve moved from windows. CLI and systray GUI. The GUI makes it very easy to log in and setup, no need to touch a config file.