A few years ago:
Me: Why can’t I remove Edge?
IT Elitist: Because you have cheap peasant Home edition. They don’t pull this crap on Pro and Business editions.
Oh, they learn all right: “hey, we can pull so much bullshit off and they still pay us. Let’s do more next time”
Yesterday I found that my C drive was almost completely full and that was causing issues, digging into it I would that somehow a bug in One drives logging had generated almost 30 GB of logs, and the funny part is I have OneDrive disabled on my laptop. Tech has become such a toxic shithole field I wish I picked a different career
Stop using Windows
I want to but I don’t have enough external storage to back my data before wiping off windows and doing a clean Linux install, need to buy some hard drives first, hoping this AI scam hasn’t inflated the prices on those as well
Your data is living on borrowed time as it is if you don’t have it backed up already.
Two is one and one is none.
There has got to be a lawsuit against this shit.
There was a massive lawsuit for simply including IE in the install as default, and this is 100 times worse than that.
Nowadays, all you have to do to get your antitrust lawsuits conveniently forgotten is agree to lock down your company’s OS and share your data with the US government, like Google.
always the EU.
They’ve certainly improved things for people globally with their rulings.
“learns” isn’t the right word, they know you don’t want it, like it, or need it. They don’t care, a proper statement would be “microsoft never cares”
Dropped Microsoft a long time ago. Loving every second of it.
Windows-free since 2014 in my case! Hated Windows 8’s user experience enough that I decided KDE was a better windows than windows and never looked back.
In 2026 Plasma 6 is genuinely in the conversation for the best graphical environment for the desktop platform in general, partly because it’s very good and partly because Apple and Microsoft have let standards slip a lot in my view.
It did this on Windows 10 as well, I don’t know why this is all of a sudden some kind of surprise.
Make a script that checks for it and removes it? Linux has its pains but it doesn’t have these pains.
almost 20 years ago I wrote a service that did this because of a hijacker. After I cleaned the system I extended it to stop all the MS bullshit that just wouldn’t stop running.
Fuck Google, FUCK
Fuck Capitalism, FUCK
Unlike traditional web apps, OneDrive Photos is actually quite well built. It has a Windows 11-like Acrylic design for the context menu and does not take up a huge amount of resources, as RAM usage stays under 1GB
Excuse me, a photo gallery that takes 1gb of RAM, especially in this economy, doesn’t seem “quite well built”.
This fucking web app wrappers, Picasa had 100x more features while using 50x less resources
actually quite well built
Windows 11-like Acrylic design
Lol, that’s the lede defense.
It’s not a “web app”. It’s a native Windows app. A photo library app that indexes every single photo so you can search them with natural language like “green shirt”, group people by facial recognition, and edit photos, using under 1GB of RAM is impressive.
If the “native” Windows app it’s running on a dedicated browser and coded with web tech, it’s still a web app even if it’s an .exe
Did you know that Picasa could still group people by facial recognition in windows XP with 1 gb of ram in TOTAL? (Clarifying: 1gb to the whole system, not only a single app)
And are you sure that the indexing is running locally? Because it’s called “onedrive photos”, not “windows photos”, so they can totally do the indexing on the cloud.
It’s a native Windows app. What makes you think it’s “coded with web tech”? Do you know it’s just a web wrapper?
some of the reasons why it’s not a native app:
- it uses 1000 mb of ram instead of 50 mb
- if you install binisoft windows firewall control, it wants to get permission to “Microsoft Edge WebView2” when you open it
- all the other microshit apps like clipchamp, new outlook, teams, the start menu, the widgets, are all webapps. It’s like they fired anyone that knew how to write code and replaced them with copilot
- the library, https://github.com/microsoft/fluentui , is react = web
Shill harder, we need to deliver more shareholder value
Shill? Explaining why something isn’t a “web app” is shilling now? Geez you commies are getting really loose with your definitions now.
Is it actually doing it in-device? Given that it’s attached to OneDrive, I was rather under the impression that it was just offloading the processing to their servers.
Doesn’t really matter where it’s doing what. It’s displaying it all on device. It’s caching stuff on device.
It does matter if you don’t want your shit in the cloud.
Why are you using onedrive if you don’t want your stuff in the cloud?
It has almost never failed. We added 254092 ifelse statements, ensuring every possible state will be dealt with. It only fails if the user does something unexpected, like clicking too fast. Damn. That makes 254093.
The decade of the Linux Desktop, sponsored by Windows11
If it continues like this, it very well might ne some day. One can dream and hope…
At least for now, One can drive 😃
I make golden images for Windows at work. Everything Microsoft annoys/pissed me off.
I make golden showers out of windows at work. We are not the same!
Me too. Such a pain in the ass.
What’s your capture/deployment tool?
Packer/Terraform for all VM’s on all providers
Just say Fuck Microslop at this point, plenty of beginner distros for Linux nowadays. Sucks for company employees that force it though. Hey CEOs I have money saving advice, Linux is free! You can even not go bankrupt to claude! lmfao.
Not true. You still very much have contracts with those companies be it RHEL or Ubuntu. It’s less don’t get me wrong, but not free. Like your small local shop could get away with it, but once you have regulatory oversight, things change.
Fun fact: Microsoft will try to guess your passwords to open and scan your encrypted archives when uploaded to OneDrive.
Microsoft also hands your BitLocker recovery keys to the government on request.
Microsoft also uses your local machine’s GDID to deanonymize and track you across the internet for the government.
These are paid surveillance services Microsoft provides to the government, paid for by your tax dollars. No wonder they desperately want to force you to use OneDrive.
Pay for it twice actually, Microsoft charges you to install that spyware on your computer as well.
Hey now! I can honestly say Microsoft has never done that with any of my computers!
(Why yes, they do all run Linux. How did you know?)
If any of your Linux machines use SystemD,
then Microsoft has done thatthen there’s something to be aware of with those machines. SystemD has a global system ID that can be used like the Windows GDID apparently.Edit: not MS
Source?
See discussion below. I’m making it up obviously
Tell me more. I may have to move to a distro without systemdeez.
Okay but correlate that with the same methods and usage and by the same threat actor (MS) in this case.
Or any of the combination, as a treat
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but it’s extremely implausible.
Absolutely zero reason a init system needs admin date of birth. Yes separate issue entirely, but it’s showing a trend and the direction things are headed.
To be fair, yeah that shit is egregious.
But that’s not at all what I asked you or what you claimed. Those are technically two different things. And not technically like yes or no. Those are entirely different security fronts.
You’ve got to back that claim up or take it back, and I have a feeling you’ll be taking it back.
It’s okay to be cautious, and it’s especially okay to warn others of trajectories that could lean into privacy or security issues, but it’s not okay to make shit up.
Lastly it’s no longer an init system. It’s a system that happens to handle init.
Zipping files was never enough to secure them in the cloud. It‘s always recommended to properly encrypt sensitive data properly before you upload it. Whether you use OneDrive, Google Drive, Proton drive or whatever.
Still amazing how far Microslop goes to sniff through your stuff preemptively, though. Your cloud storage should be none of their business but sadly it‘s their entire business now. Privacy laws should definitely extend to digital space you rent no matter the circumstances.
If cloud providers argue that‘s too dangerous then they simply shouldn‘t be in business. If a government says it‘s too dangerous then they shouldn‘t be in power. Obviously they don‘t trust in the people who voted for them. Therefore they don‘t trust democracy and are therefore fundamentally undemocratic and a danger to the people.
ZIP encryption can be pretty strong, as long as you use aes-256 and not zipcrypt. AES256 had been supported for ZIP files since 2003, just not in the built-in Windows zip handling.
Wow, that’s how it managed to find “malware” (not actual malware) in a password protected rar that I shared
this has been a thing for years, I remember having to uninstall it so many times, back when I had windows, I mean. :P
OneNote too. That was the final nail in the coffin for me over a year ago when I said fuck this and switched to Linux.
so mac or distro?
Take it one step further. Linux on mac.
