Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission : technology

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Had this happen to me some time ago. I hated it so much.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (22 children)

windows 11 has a onedrive sync service that is almost impossible to disable even with group policy and all that.

I tried to make a clean image of the OS that could be booted from the network. never again.

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[+] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

It just comes down to personal preference. Mint is usually recommended as a good starting point.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

How much time do you want to spend on linux os maintenance?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Debian

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

All of them.

Biggest difference a distro does is their update cycle and how much the distro "takes care" of you. Some of them do everything behind the scenes to make it just work. Others need more user interaction to reach the same state (but tend to teach you the inner workings too, which will open up a LOT of customization)

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (5 children)

How to speed run your entire user base into hating you.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wtf is Microsoft doing?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Phase one: force everyone's data into their OneDrive account. OneDrive now at capacity, you must upgrade to ensure all your data is backed up and retained.

Phase two: MS secretly (or not so secretly) use all this data to train copilot.

Human generated content to feed into ai systems is the new good rush

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Not secretly, Dropbox is currently doing that

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[+] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 139 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I once turned that feature on thinking it was an actual backup (copies of my files in the cloud), I remember how angry I was when I found out it wasn't a backup after all and just removed your files from your computer and only made them accessible online.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (5 children)

You're supposed to uncheck the save storage space and download files as you use them option.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 11 months ago

You’re supposed to remove windows

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 11 months ago (4 children)

First recall, then getting rid of local accounts, and now this.

Might shift back to Linux now.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

😬yuck

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