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lawrence.stevens@dgar OneDrive is Evil and must be stopped.
Ampelios@lawrence_stevens @dgar I once lost over 300k words because Onedrive is a sick joke.
All for the best, I rewrote with a beginning, middle, and end. The result was an improvement.
But I will never trust it again.
AT Hayes@dgar You could drop it in this box...
restorante@restorante @dgar Naw, one drives over to the mega store, can pick up any box you want.
Jay ๐บ๐ฆ@dgar
I just paid extra to have a phone with 265GB. I know it's a scam (SD cards are gigantic and practically free now? Who's gonna pay for a cloud subscription? Just remove the slot!).
But not using clouds outside my job means a lot to me.
If they ever hack my cloud, it's just a lot of photos of spines, livers, and very, very gross closeups of skin diseases. Be my guest.
I just paid extra to have a phone with 265GB. I know it's a scam (SD cards are gigantic and practically free now? Who's gonna pay for a cloud subscription? Just remove the slot!).
But not using clouds outside my job means a lot to me.
If they ever hack my cloud, it's just a lot of photos of spines, livers, and very, very gross closeups of skin diseases. Be my guest.
@dgar
(EDITS: Fat fingers hitting send on accident all the time)
(EDITS: Fat fingers hitting send on accident all the time)
rugk@Soulshine
A reminder that cool phones like @Fairphone still have an SD card slot in even their latest #Fairphone 5 model. #fp5
@dgar
A reminder that cool phones like @Fairphone still have an SD card slot in even their latest #Fairphone 5 model. #fp5
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kb@Soulshine @dgar Are there any modern phones which have SD card slots?
เฒเฒฟเฒฐเฒพเฒเณ ๐นโ๐พโ๐ฑ๐ต๐ธ (he/him)@donkeyblam @Soulshine @dgar Samsung phones still sometimes have them! Mine (Galaxy S20 FE 5G) still has one, for example.
@chiraag @donkeyblam @dgar Yeah, and they've disabled installing apps on SD cards around when, the S10?
@Soulshine @donkeyblam @dgar I hadn't even noticed b/c internal storage increased enough that I don't even care anymore welp
Coho
Marcus Adams@donkeyblam @Soulshine @dgar They're getting harder and harder to find and the sad thing is it's kind of pointless on Android because the last time I tried it won't let you install basically any apps to the microSD card any more, so the only thing you can put on there is personal files and music.
Oh, definitely. People mentioned fairphone and I think the Samsung budget line (A-series) still does. But after getting my first cellphone at 18 and never paying over 300โฌ for one, this was the first time I've wanted to buy an expensive phone (Pixel 8 Pro) bc I want to use its camera for promo videos for my band and my practice. A friend who sometimes tapes our gigs with real video equipment recently used his Pixel instead and I was super impressed with its capabilities.
AlexanderMars@donkeyblam @Soulshine @dgar Sonyโs Xperia has them, and even has a mother grabbing headphone Jack.
Syulang@donkeyblam @Soulshine @dgar I ordered a batch of new Samsung phones for my workplace. (A55 5G) and they still have SD slots. Pretty durables phones too, and if you get them off-network most of the samsung bloatware can be uninstalled which is decent. They are completely unrepairable though. If you can afford a Fairphone, then I'd hands down, absolutely go for that first and foremost. Sadly, we're locked into state govt procurement in my workplace and can't go to our own vendors directly, so we're stuck with a handful of big brands, as otherwise I'd definitely speak to my boss abt migrating our org to them.
My last phone was an A35 but I have concrete plans for the Pixel 8 Pro's top notch video recording performance and the budget line does not deliver that.
I've never owned an expensive phone before but it really depends on what you use it for.
Tammy Gentzel
AtheistIntelligence@dgar for real.
xs4me2Me toooooโฆ
David Scott Moyer@dgar I keep nothing in the pinche cloud.
@dgar And I want to keep a local backup thankyou.
Majnลซn ๐บ๐ฆ@dgar
I deleted OneDrive and lost hundreds of files that were automatically saved there. But I don't have OneDrive anymore.
I deleted OneDrive and lost hundreds of files that were automatically saved there. But I don't have OneDrive anymore.
Oliver Geer@dgar It's not just a privacy/control issue. I've literally had programming students stuck because the compiler complained about their code being in a non-ASCII-named folder. File Explorer showed only ASCII in the file path.
The problem? The Documents folder was secretly inside OneDrive, and although it was called "Documents" everywhere in the UI, the real folder name in OneDrive was in Chinese (because of language settings).
And all along, nobody knew it was anything but a normal folder.
I am Jack's Lost 404If we're lucky, this will start happening enough in microsoft's own offices that they'll never be able to compile anything ever again 
@dgar yessssss! so unnecessary ... this pisses me off soooo much.
C.Suthorn 
Once there was a post about the percentage of first semester computer science students who do not know what a file manager is, or where files are stored, or what a file actually is.
Hugo@dgar glad iโm not the only one with this issue.
DoomsdaysCW@dgar Relatable content! Don't forget to backup to external hard drives.
Greg Harvey ๐@dgar That was such a great show... ๐
Old Man in the Shoe@dgar Shit, I forgot seeing this when I was about to screenshot it... I opened Excel today, it detected I no longer pay for OneDrive and tried to delete local files that aren't in the cloud.
At least it asked, I might have been smart enough to say no.
(Quit OneDrive or Delete Files)
Democracy Dies in Dumbass@dgOK.aus.social onedrive is a bad idea until they fully support endpoint encryption.
But they're not going to support endpoint encryption because they can't mine your data if they do.
DruidYou can do what Microsoft wants and you can like it! Their one way is freedom, or something
@dgar this bloatware is everywhere in M$ office, which i have to use in the work. Can't even save files to local by default anymore ๐คฎ
Liz Ellis (She/Her) #BDSNow@dgar the struggle is real.
AskPippa๐จ๐ฆ@dgar I can't believe how aggressive OneDrive is in trying to get me to save to it. The option to save there keeps appearing, even after I turn things off. Sometimes you can click those by accident.
@dgar What if you filled your OneDrive space? Like, if you put hundreds of copies of the same long movie there -- maybe it would be too full so you can't save anything there even accidentally?
obidijohn
Phil Thane โ
Jessamyn@dgar I work in a public library in an area with pretty poor cell service and wifi coverage. We (and and my patrons) have this fight with the computer nearly weekly. OneDrive, how dare you?
Karen E. Lund ๐๐@dgar Why did OneDrive come pre-installed (and impossible to delete) on my Android tablet? There's no other Windows software here! It's only 2.57 MB and I disabled it, but why is it there at all?
But Dropbox was the worst, IMHO. Several months ago I tried to delete an old and little-used Dropbox account. After downloading the few files, I deleted the account... I thought. Instead I started getting daily emails from Dropbox! After several exchanges with Support, I'm still not sure it's gone.
Microsoft:
We sell onedrive and onedrive accessories
Heliograph@dgar omg yes ๐๐
@dgar "On the cloud" = "On a server owned by predatory corporation who makes their entire profit off the data you give them"
Sometimes we have to use he cloud. Realistically it's the only practical means for long distable collaborative work media. There are many things we can do to mitigate these risks.
* Only put data on a cloud sever that needs to be there for collaboration or porting. Once that task is done get it back to your own machine.
* Use an independent provider, ideally one that provides zero access encryption. A lot of EU providers offers this (see below).
* Use a provider based in the EU, with servers located in the EU. These operate under the European GDPR law, which is pretty much the gold standard for data protection.
* For sharing a data between your own devices and around the home, just get a NAS drive. Infinitely more secure, much faster, and much cleaner (data centres are pretty horrific to their local environment, especially local water systems).
Jasper ๐@dgar see google storage links on websites for the images sometimes.
Like probably cdns can make sense sometimes? Dunno which are good to choose..
Nosaj 
I use SyncThing for direct device to device sharing, no cloud required.
He thinks he owns his computer?
@dgar
Better yet, having saved to my local disk I have my files instantly mirrored to my Nextcloud server in my shed. #Nextcloud #Linux #OneDrive #Cloud
@Maker_of_Things
Better yet, having saved to my local disk I have my files instantly mirrored to my Nextcloud server in my shed. #Nextcloud #Linux #OneDrive #Cloud
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