I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. It’s not cloud storage. It’s just someone else’s computer.
I’m writing materials to teach Windows 11 to someone, and I literally explain Onedrive as “a computer in America”.
Head-in-the-cloud storage.
not based
I still like to imagine all my files being up in a cloud in the sky. There’s so much infinite fluffy white space up there.
The sad thing is that One drive could honesty be really good.
However, it is so badly written that it eats up tons of resources and doesn’t do a terribly good job at syncing.
I’ve been using OneDrive for years, and for years I have noticed how horrible it is.
Example:
Folders for my annual tax filing documents. Gone. They don’t exist. OneDrive decides to purge things. Like all my tax documents.
Fuck Onedrive.
But I started using OneDrive after developing a hatred for Dropbox because Dropbox somehow makes duplicate files on my phone internal storage that are impossible to delete without going into a desktop computer that runs on Windows and blah blah blah blah blah, and unless I do that it fills up my phone storage which is exactly the reason I was trying to use a cloud so I wouldn’t have to use it my phone storage!!
So I hate Dropbox and I hate OneDrive so I bought a 2 TB external hard drive for my phone, thankfully before storage prices apparently went up recently, I bought this thing last year.
Copying my videos from my phone to my external harddrives as I type this
if you want inspiration, my backups look like:
backups/2025-11-17/android backups/2025-11-17/desktop ... backups/2026-02-17
Funny how they took technology older than http, gave it new misleading name and now promote it as the future
onedrive? more like nonedrive!
the sync shit for it is so bad you’ll end up with nothing.
I use nextcloud, so now I can save things in the cloud and the cloud is my computer 😅
Me too. Only issue I have is it’s kind of janky on Android where it doesn’t pick up files created by other apps.
I’m so stealing that second half and put it on the outside of my cubicle
Commenting just so I remember to do the same tomorrow. I’m in bed, functions are failing.
Holy shit, punniest meme I’ve see on Lemmy. xD
I find it incredibly moronic that Word cannot auto save a file every few minutes when it’s stored locally on your own hard drive. That feature requires OneDrive.
It’s very capable of auto saving locally because it was able to do it in the past.
Fkn clanker Microslop.
Computers no longer solve actual problems, and are the problem now.
Hate and shun the Abominable Intelligence.
Don’t blame the computers. Blame the corporate dickheads that are misusing them to fuck us in every way imaginable. Computers are great.
You use word?
Have to for work.
That sucks. I installed LibreOffice on my work computer and just use that.
“We noticed you haven’t been using OneDrive enough so we will create problems and then force you to use OneDrive to fix them” - Microsoft
Microslop*
More like macroslop
Word cannot auto save a file every few minutes
But apparently it uploads text to copilot every time you copy 😡
Dude, don’t use *that emoji, all I can think of when I see that is this:
*EDIT
Don’t tell me what to do! 😡
Ahhh, ain’t he just the cutest little thing.
Apt username.
Its even more silly when VS Code and Visual study can do it, without issue
Which is also microsoft products
Different audience. I guess they know they can’t get away with forcing OneDrive on programmers.
They don’t need to; most developers rely on Github.
Which is owned by Microslop and has issues about every 3 months.
And look it must’ve been time for it.
Yet. It won’t stop them from trying.
I still hit ctrl+s after writing every sentence because of when Word would only auto save every 5 minutes, but crash about every 4.
I’ve been using Publisher for 30 years for all kinds of stuff, and I’ve gotten really, really good at it, with it all customized to my specs.
Now they’re discontinuing it in October, and supposedly it will stop working, and all my stuff will be unusable. I’ll have the final PDFs/JPGs/Pngs, etc but none of the files, if I want to modify them, which I do, frequently. I’ve tried Word, it sucks for graphics.
Now I’ve got to figure out a new replacement, and start a new learning curve. The one thing I am sure of is that the replacement will NOT be MicroSlop.
It’s possible not to allow auto-updating.
Both of those look great, and I like Scribus for being on the outside. Ill have to do a little research and see how well Publisher files transfer.
I think libre Office writer can do that
Correct, LibreOffice autosaves.
And older versions of Word …
I’ve been using Libre Office Writer for at least 10 years. When I hear people complain about Word, I always think “You’re still using Word?”
Call me a shill, but that’s why I always used Google Docs when I was in school. Things are instantly saved and I can easily access them on other devices. It was also always how we collaborated on group projects with the ability of multiple people to simultaneously edit power points in a collaborative project.
I don’t have use for word processing anymore, but I used Google Docs from like 2012-2020.
Definitely helped a ton because my laptop in grad school would randomly blue screen a lot for no discernible reason. Did that when it was new too and Dell support was no help. I have a suspicion that the processor was actually faulty on a hardware level straight from the factory…as it would have problems both in Windows AND Linux that were “fixed” by dramatically underclocking the CPU. All hardware stress tests would always pass. :/
Anyway, sorry for the random tangent lol.
Back when I was in school (damn does it make me feel old to say “back in my day”) I just had one device and collaboratively working on a presentation meant splitting up the parts and everyone sent what they wanted to have on the slides to the one group member who actually created the presentation (and made sure the format and style of bullet points were coherent) in zipped archives via e-mail. Also, we had to either bring our own laptops to show a presentation (at least the schools had beamers) or print that shit on literal OHP transparencies.
Anyway, there are open source alternatives to Google Docs, OneDrive, etc. You could go the NextCloud route or use Cryptpad, both can be either subscribed to through various platforms or even self hosted.
Just to add to your anecdote and provide some alternatives if someone reading this needed to know.
Haha I’m really glad I missed out on that sort of era tbh. Sounds like a bit of a nightmare.
While I appreciate you providing alternatives, the fact of the matter is that most of your random classmates are unlikely to be interested in using or figuring out how to use some sort of obscure program/website.
Don’t make it a group discussion. Just say “I’m gonna set up a collab doc later today” and send them the link. It will just be a workable document, nothing fancy and no weird UI you gotta get into.
If it’s that simple for people to participate, that sounds good. I’m glad my era of group projects is over, at least! No more classroom work for me!
It is that easy. NextCloud works with LibreOffice, and my first contact with Cryptpad was some vacation planning with online friends and someone set up the pad, sent the link and we were able to work with that stuff instantly.
No more classroom work for me!
I don’t know what your occupation is/will be, but office world is not a lot different from class rooms in many regards xD (I hope you got a more comfortable experience with your coworkers though).
I don’t have an office job, so it’s all good haha. I work in the medical field and have not needed to touch anything like that in years lol.
libreoffice.
At this point, even using LaTeX for word processing in Vim is better than using word.
always has been.
It’s extra moronic when you remember that the government is their biggest customer, and they generally cannot use OneDrive because of data storage requirements. Microsoft appears to give zero fucks about their users.
If it walks like slop, and it talks like slop… it’s slop.
No, we use one drive and are expected to keep working documents there
I’m still railing against proprietary phone apps.
We made HTML5, JS, CSS into open standards FOR A REASON
You’re not alone, friend. To paraphrase Doctorow, an app is just a website that’s a felony to alter. If a company puts a service behind an app that they don’t also make available via web, I am either learning to do without that service or looking for foss alternatives. I really don’t care about someone’s grandpa finding it easier to use an app, fuck you stop using old people to justify killing the web, give me a functioning website.
apps for mobile should only ever be developed after there already is a functioning website.
Do you mean This PC?
Yeah, I was shocked that everybody all jumped on the “You can totally trust us with your most important data and information. We won’t ever do anything bad with it” bandwagon.
Oh, by the way, the price just went up, and since they have all your shit, including ALL of your kids’ childhood photos, you’ll pay it, no matter how much it is, or what they do with it.
Strip it out.
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
I find windows intolerable if I don’t run that and turn half the shit off.
I find windows intolerable
if I don’t run that and turn half the shit off.I mean, Linux would be less effort.
Yep. Got tired of constantly having to remove/disable yet one more thing Microsoft added. Or finding out some of my previous debloating was reverted or that I hadn’t done it perfectly. If it was just a single checkbox and Microsoft actually honored it, I probably wouldn’t be salty right now.
Yeah, that was the most surprising part of switching to Linux. It generally takes the same effort or less to get my linux install behaving like I want it than it did with a windows install. Plus windows likes to nagg you to set up shit I didn’t want in the first place.
It was kinda funny because that was the whole reason for switching in the first place, but there was this base assumption that Linux was going to be harder than windows, just without stupid MS shit thrown in. But no, it’s actually easier, just different in some ways that mean some skills don’t transfer.
But LLMs are pretty good for bridging that gap. They aren’t perfectly reliable (made up command line arguments are pretty common) but it’s good for getting command names from a description of what you want to do, which you can then learn about using pre-LLM methods.
Self hosted nextcloud server go brrrrr
“What’s ‘my own computer’?”
- Gen Beta…and gen alpha
