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.
In 2026 this is a book for trust fund babies
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.
This is exactly why I left (Arch BTW)
Microsoft wants to start charging you to access your own files…
Don’t they already?
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.
Your computer? That you own? In your house?
“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.
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.
Couldn’t be happier to be back to Ubuntu.
Wait what did MS do now?
