Manager shared their screen on a call last week. The horror!
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Do you know that after taste of bad soda? Most soda, really, but I mean specifically that awful post-sweet flavor you get after drinking a C-brand warm soda, or those extremely artificial candy that just makes you go "I just tasted an industrial machine and corn syrup", those that really make you feel like you're tasting some awful combination of lab grade chemicals and no food that's ever existed in nature is present in there.
Imagining that taste in your mouth? That's how I feel whenever I see or interact with Windows nowadays.
You can't even call it "personal" computing anymore
It infuriates me to no end that the term "PC" has become indistinguishable from "computer running windows." Firstly, any personal computer, whether it's running Windows, MacOS, Linux, TempleOS, etc is a PC/personal computer. Secondly, as you pointed out, Microslop does not allow users to take personal ownership of their computer.
The term PC has been used to mean x86 compatible machines designed to run Microsoft operating systems for 45 years now; IBM started using the term for their model 5150 in 1981. It was too generic to trademark but they did trademark "IBM Personal Computer" and "IBM-PC". You had other platforms like Apple Macintosh, Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, and among them the IBM Personal Computer. That was one company's branding. If you were releasing software, you'd say "For Mac, Amiga and PC."
It just so happens the one with the very generic name also happened to be made of almost entirely off-the-shelf parts and a third-party OS they didn't bother to secure exclusive rights to, so the only thing they really held IP rights over was the BIOS. Compaq engineered a non-infringing BIOS, and boom the PC was now an open standard, and hence it was the one that got widely adopted. "IBM-Compatible" was attempted for awhile, but that kinda died when IBM bowed out of the market entirely, "x86-compatible" is awkward, "Intel-compatible" is also awkward because the 64-bit extensions are actually AMD's doing, and MS-DOS or MS-Windows compatible is incorrect because other OSes are available. So...we use "PC" to describe the ecosystem as a whole for lack of any better term.
I’ve taken to calling it my “desktop computer” because PC is a meaningless term
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Windows: An experience you can taste.
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I fucking hate one drive and how it is constantly shoved in your face. Thanks, let me use my computer and save to my computer, that is right here beside me. I know where my computer is and who has access to it. Thanks! I built my computer with storage capacity on purpose?!
Every fucking update it tries to dark pattern me into setting it up. They even have the gall to be like "okay but we're going to ask again" when you refuse it. I already have a backup, just fuck off.
I don't have a problem with it mirroring my documents to a cloud service. But I want to decide to use that service first, and set up the specific folders its going to mirror. And I want to retain copies of those files on my local drive, where they can be used just like they're files on the local drive (because that's where they are). And if I decided to stop using that service, I should be able to continue using the files the same way as before.
People that don't want to use the cloud service (or don't want to use specifically Microsoft's cloud service), should not be badgered about it at every opportunity.
Reading this stuff as a Linux user is a real trip. Y'all know you don't have to put up with this, right?
Well, when the company wants something running on Windows, you got to keep one around.
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And people STILL think I'm weird weird for hating 11
Windows is becoming increasingly hostile and really I think the only reason people and businesses still use it is mass Stockholm syndrome.
It's the ultimate vendor lock. All of our productivity software is on windows, we designed our productivity stacks around windows.
F'real. And lots of specialized software has marginal support for Linux at best, so it ends up being a chicken/egg problem. There's no business software for Linux because nobody uses Linux for business because there's no business software for Linux.
I hope many other IT orgs will realize that it's so much easier at the end of the day to thinapp them through a platform like Omnissa or whatever Citrix is calling theirs now.
Then, hopefully, Linux numbers go up and it gets treated like the first-class citizen it deserves to be.
The idea of atomic linux desktops in an enterprise setting tickles me in a way that would get me called into HR.
IGEL OS could potentially get this kind of pull going from medical/govt primarily to more general business
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I get a lot of that too. "It works just fine" is a common justification I hear from people 🤦♂️
Which is true for the majority of people, because the majority of people just don't care. With most day to day windows issues, the fix is just restarting it or abusing the IT person in your family for free support.
Windows is definitely bad from a power user's standpoint. But, the things we consider downfalls are often seen as benefits to those who don't know any better (and who don't care to know any better).
Like, Microsoft saving your important documents in the cloud, for free, so a drive failure won't cause you to lose your data sounds great on the surface.
People look at me weird for using Signal, Linux, VPN, Filen, etc. Like sorry I don't like sucking capitalist dick?
I like my dick very leftish. 🤤
My whole life it was a common knowledge that Windows alternates between OK and worst shit imaginable. 95 was shit, 98 was passable. ME was terrible, XP was OK. Vista was dogshit, 7 was all right. 8 was cancer, 10 was functional. 11 was doomed from the beginning, and it's weird that some people don't know this.
21H2 wasn't that bad, by comparison to 24H2.
But that's like saying George W wasn't that bad, by comparison to Trump.
Yeah, it's true, but you're comparing road apples and pedophiles.
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I remember doing a presentation. And I hate doing those, since I do databases and that shit. Don't like to do that work but power trough. Saved it to my documents, but turns out now it saves on one fuckive mydocs not the real mydocs, new feature microslop says. Now one fuckive said it had an error syncing and try later. It never synced the file dissapeared. Had to redo it. I cursed every second of that shit. Thanks for literally nothing one fuckive...
All together now: "YOU SHOULD TRY LINUX!"
‘Work laptop’. Unless you’re self employed or work with a very generous IT manager, you get what you’re given.
I asked IT if they could disable onedrive and they did for me, I was surprised they said yes but they didnt care at all. Doesnt hurt to ask
I pretend that the button does a "cha ching" sound every time I press it. I'm paid the same hourly rate for doing my job or dismissing microsoft dialog buttons.
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My god, windows is a joke.
I find it amazing that I can't play offline Xbox 360 games, that I own, on series S, without Gamepass, without first signing out of Xbox.
Wtf?
I cancelled Gamepass a few weeks ago and the first "tell" that it was cancelled is that my kids Minecraft Java Edition wouldn't work because it was using my Gamepass. I could've sworn I had merged my Mojang account years ago, but couldn't get my kid back online without buying it again.
Windows has issues, but part of the disconnect here is from a person not understanding or not acknowledging the differences between a work computer and a personal one.
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It's really strange how in-browser onedrive will sometimes prompt you with a "Please sign in!", with two buttons, sign in, and ignore/later or something. And then you click that and it keeps being signed in. Lol, lmao even. Code written by absolute tic tacs. Am I fucking signed in or not?!
I have to use outlook for work. Frequently it will ask me to log in, then when I do so it gets stuck in a loop of logging me out as soon as I log in and asking me to try again. This happens until I clear my cookies. I have never had this happen with anyone besides Microsoft.
Also it prompts you when logging in to "sign in with all apps on the device", which I definitely do not want. But this means when I sign in on something like power point or word (because I guess liscence keys aren't adequate anymore?) it then signs me out of other apps which use a Microsoft account.
I no longer use windows for personal use, but I'm stuck with it for work
Presumably
- This is for onedrive specifically
- Something is trying to access something in onedrive which throws this error
You have to sign in to enable offline mode because it's a security feature to ensure that only you have access to that data. The sentence is not confusing at all.
As for the other two, I don't know.
I don't really agree with it not being confusing. Offline mode should be the default behavior of Onedrive when nobody is logged in because if nobody is logged in there's probably nobody wanting to use the service. Having to log into the service to tell it "I don't want to use you" is stupid.
If there was a news site spamming your email with clickbait articles and the only way to stop them from spamming your email is by logging into the news site to let them know you don't want their news you'd probably call that stupid. You should be able to stop their spamming without needing to log in.
It's not confusing when you just accept that you have to log into somewhere just to turn it off.
Having to log into the service to tell it "I don't want to use you" is stupid.
You see, this guarantees that you have an account with the service, which means Microslop gets to report rising user engagement numbers.
Does it matter that the "engagement" was telling them to stuff their Onedrive where the sun don't shine? No, not at all! A new user logged into the service. That's all they care about.
Just because it's not confusing to you, because you have access to additional context, doesn't mean it isn't intrinsically confusing.
What is written is essentially "go online to go offline".
I frequently ask my people to shout out thier ideas to brainstorm. "The first idea will be the worst. We'll iterate on it. Let's get the worst idea out quickly"
This message smacks of "the first, worst, idea"
I'll propose a second idea:
"Sign in to decrypt offline files"
Is it good? Still no. Is it better? Probably. What would you propose as a third iteration?
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Not confusing at all ? what about the double negation... "turn on offline mode" sounds like those boolean settings in some programs which turn something off when you set them to "on"...
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Not defending any of the other stuff here, but signing in to access offline mode is not a weird requirement. It's security for files tied to your office/email account, not just your local device account, that you may or may not want to give open access to for anyone using the device account. It's a private drive, and that would be literally the only point in using a cloud drive in permanent offline mode on that device, that layer of security. Otherwise, just save your docs in your normal user directory.
Everything else about this is stupid though.
Otherwise, just save your docs in your normal user directory.
I thought the implication of "disabling" OneDrive was exactly that. This guy doesn't want to use it at all and it keeps throwing errors anyway. But I don't use Windows and never touched OneDrive when I did so I could be wrong.
It just... sounds a lot like Microsoft is all, so a lot of people relate to it. It's not just Microsoft of course, it's any enshittified tech company that's been around too long - they have too many mouths to feed and require a constant ever-increasing stream of Number Go Up which leads to shit behavior like this. It's designed to hassle users into using their subscription services whether they like it or not.
I was just with some out of town friends this weekend and telling them how I don't use any cloud services at all and they were just stunned "how do you do your pictures then? We have to pay for extra space!!" and I'm like "I... back things up in 3 places manually once or twice a year?" It didn't compute. People are largely captured, this shit behavior works and that's why they do it.
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Yeah, don’t use Microsucks eh
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