• exanime@lemmy.today
    10·
    17 days ago

    We have this shit at work, they make it incredibly hard to get a fucking attachment as a real attachment instead of a link to their cloud

    Specially annoying since my organization is “geofence” but we work with people all over the world… So MS insists on switching attachments to links nobody can open outside my country

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      3·
      17 days ago

      Blame your company for not configuring that shit, or choosing to let MS handle it all.

      Personally, no company should be using Office 365 and external mail. Bring that shit back in house.

      No Know (wtf autoincorrect?) why bringing it in house costs more? Because it’s worth it, for the control.

      • otacon239@feddit.de
        5·
        17 days ago

        I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.

        I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.

      • exanime@lemmy.today
        0·
        17 days ago

        Yes but If you chose the full attachment, half the time I just get the link

        This is because MS will force it if they think the attachment is an odd extension or too big or whatever

        • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
          1·
          17 days ago

          No, it only does it when it is too big. And that is very convenient rather than it trying to send your message and then giving you a failure notice. Why are you bitching about features that actively make your life easier?

          There is a lot to bitch at M$ about, but this is not one of them.

          • exanime@lemmy.today
            0·
            16 days ago

            It doesn’t make my life any better as those links never work.

            If it works for you fine, don’t need to be offended like I insulted your girlfriend

              • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
                1·
                16 days ago

                Yeah, it sure does sound like it would be hard to have a notification if the attachment is going to fail due to size policies, and then have an option to use the link or cancel the attachment (and have you choose another way). It would also be unheard of for there to be a setting in that dialog to say to always do whatever action you take so it only inconveniences those who go with the default once.

                User-hostile software is never a “you” problem. This applies to a number of FOSS products, as well.

                • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
                  02·
                  16 days ago

                  If that were the case, it would confuse users. It would be flooded with tickets about the weird notification that they got and didn’t read and how they can’t attach files anymore.

                  “Cancel the link attachment”???

                  Fucking press backspace! Jesus Christ, did you just get your first computer ever? I’m getting the picture that critical thinking isn’t really your forte.

        • psud@aussie.zone
          1·
          13 days ago

          That’s probably because your file is over 10MB and would be rejected by most receiving systems

          • exanime@lemmy.today
            1·
            13 days ago

            Yes, that’s what MS thinks… Yet that’s not the case as I can successfully get the files off SharePoint to my PC and then email them

            The issue is MS doing this on its own accord and without proper warning or way to permanently override

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    10·
    16 days ago

    If you save it on your computer instead of on their servers, how could they possibly be expected to analyze your data? Come on now, be reasonable!

    • bruhduh@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 days ago

      That’s why they created recent controversy with ai analysing your whole data, another reason to switch to Linux

          • efstajas@lemmy.world
            0·
            16 days ago

            Maybe I’m out of the loop, but afaik they always said that none of the data would ever leave the device.

              • efstajas@lemmy.world
                0·
                16 days ago

                There’s a massive difference between what “usage data” refers to in this context and the kind of data stored and analyzed by Recall locally.

                • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
                  2·
                  16 days ago

                  That’s the part that makes everybody nervous though. Everything from the global dragnet surveillance network to the marketing company behind your grocery store app is most interested in “metadata.”

                  Companies like Microsoft will loudly say they don’t want your cat pictures and memes and college papers, they’re not tying your usage to an explicit file with your name and favorite pasta varieties…

                  …BUT that forced transmission of “anonymous user data”, could potentially be super effective in identifying and manipulating you. With enough of it, you can easily put together a profile of an individual.

                  Heck, for a while, TOR would advise against resizing your brower window because the window size in pixels could potentially help fingerprint you on the web. How nuts is that?!

                  Most people actually worried about a spook digging through "\videos\Homework\" are indeed paranoid.

                  But there’s been a lot of research at what can be done even if you’re just “userID 1284hdkfuw724bfiueb”

      • Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        01·
        16 days ago

        God now its not only word “windows” summoning the linux bros but the words “AI” as well?

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    9·
    16 days ago

    I grew up in suburban DFW, and King of the Hill is not really an accurate parody…

    It’s a documentary.

    You think I’m kidding, I am not.

  • _sideffect@lemmy.world
    71·
    16 days ago

    Oh you want to delete a file from your folder? Ok, we’ll also delete it from OneDrive so it’s gone forever, see ya!

    • potustheplant@feddit.nl
      4·
      15 days ago

      Firstly, no, it’s not gone forever. It remains in your onedrive recycling bin for a month. Secondly, that behavior makes sense. One drive is a mirror of your synced folders. If you just want to not have the file downloaded in your computer, just right click on the file and select “free up space”.

        • potustheplant@feddit.nl
          2·
          15 days ago

          It is. Another indicator you get is a status icon next to each file telling you if the file is permanently or temporarily (meaning it will get auto-deleted locally if you don’t use it) dowloaded to your pc or if it’s only on the cloud.

          Oh, and you also get a prompt when you delete a file letting you know that it will be deleted from onedrive as well but it will still be in the recycling bin for a while. The only way to not get that prompt is to tick a box to not get reminded again.

          Microsoft software has a lot of flaws but this isn’t one of them.

  • tibi@lemmy.world
    5·
    16 days ago

    And I also don’t want programs to throw all their crap in the documents folder. AppData is made for that.

        • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          16 days ago

          Its even worse when they dont make it a hidden folder (looking at you android studio)

          • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            16 days ago

            That annoys the fuck out of me. I want the folders I put in /home, not your shit. Put it in /.local or something and fuck off.

            • Ziglin@lemmy.world
              1·
              15 days ago

              I believe the folder you are attempting to refer to is for all users so you probably do want to have the config in ~/.config unless you want everyone to have the same. Also /home is the directory that includes all users respective ~/ directories so use ~/ when referring to your own home directory.

              Edit I can’t figure out the formatting. My client is showing <sub> where ~ should be.

        • Sabata@ani.social
          1·
          15 days ago

          No matter the environment, it is important to dump shit wherever so the user does not get complacent.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      2·
      16 days ago

      SO MUCH. Now my standard procedure is to just make a “_My_Documents” folder within Documents, so I can know where the files are that I put there myself.

      (Leading underscore pops it to the top of the list alphabetically)

      I remember some Windows versions had a Games folder for all that, saved games, etc…but it seems very few games actually decided to use it lol.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    51·
    16 days ago

    Adobe pulls that shit too.

    And it’s really easy to not really think about what you’re doing and accidentally save to the cloud.

    Then later wonder what the fuck happened to the file you spent three hours on when you came back from lunch.

    Fucking Adobe.

  • sparkle@lemm.eeCymraeg
    1·
    16 days ago

    I uninstalled one drive immediately, it’s so annoying. It’s also really fucky with when it updates files. If I need to use it, I’ll go on my browser

  • Skates@feddit.nl
    0·
    17 days ago

    I want to save to onedrive. So I can create it from my desktop, modify it from my laptop next week when I’m out of town, and send a link to it to the printer shop that’s gonna print me some copies. Why are you like this?

    • blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
      1·
      17 days ago

      Hey, no one is trying to stop you from doing that. I’m sure it is very convenient for you.

      My point of view though is that automatically uploading my personal files to some corporation computer on the other side of the world should not be the default when I try to save something. Maybe sometimes I’ll want to use that feature, but there are a variety of reasons why I don’t want it most of the time. And I definitely don’t like having to jump through hoops just to avoid it.

  • Swarfega@lemm.eeEnglish
    0·
    16 days ago

    Use Cryptomator. You can then use any cloud storage provider knowing they can’t read your files.

        • Irelephant@lemm.ee
          1·
          15 days ago

          kleopatra is good, just make sure to backup your private key. If you are comfortable with a cli you could use gnupg. Its man page is good.

          • dev_null@lemmy.ml
            1·
            15 days ago

            If you are comfortable with a cli you could use gnupg. Its man page is good.

            If I have cloud storage mounted somewhere I need to be able to drag and drop directories in and out, see the files inside in an unencrypted form, and they should transparently be uploaded encrypted. This could very well be achieved by a bunch of scripts involving gnupg, but then that’s what’s I’m looking for, because gnupg by itself wouldn’t be productive to use unless as a one-off.

            This seems promising: https://szymonkrajewski.pl/encrypted-cloud-drive-rclone/

            • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              15 days ago

              Well it depends on your use case. You could make a script to encrypt a copy of all the files in a directory, make a folder in the cloud storage, and then move the encrypted files to that directory.

  • Psythik@lemmy.world
    0·
    17 days ago

    When does this scenario ever come up? I’ve never had the file save dialog try to default to OneDrive.

    • ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social
      0·
      17 days ago

      What version of Windows are you using, and is it possible you forgot about configuring OneDrive away? This is the default in most versions of 10 and 11.

  • downpunxx@fedia.io
    0·
    17 days ago

    remember kids when onedrive folders are set to “available on this pc” it does both

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      1·
      17 days ago

      Except I don’t want it in a OneDrive folder, I want it in My Docs. Which you now have to browse for every fucking time.

      Well, I don’t, because I reconfigured that shit.