Look at them noobs who don’t know that you can tell One Drive to always keep a local copy of the files it backs up.
By default it deletes your own files off your hard disk?
It keeps the online copy and that’s it
That is an absolutely wild default!
Wait hold up that makes it worse!
Yeah, when you save a new file it’s automatically uploaded, if you don’t have a connection it will save it locally and wait until you have a connection to upload/delete.
Kinda stuck when you realize you don’t have any local copies and no internet, so I always turn the option to keep a local copy On.
This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.
I also love how the safe prompts in office 365 are putting “this computer” in quotation marks.
I remember when it was C:/ then it became “this computer” and stuff, to make you forget you have hardware at all or so I feel.
There’s advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.
Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems I’ve fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.
My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.
Wow, that’s really garbage. Why is MS trying so hard to push Linux?
Linux doesn’t make you jump through this hoop 🐧🫡🇺🇸
You know, I use Linux at work but use windows at home. I’ve been thinking of switching for a while. I think the thing that is going to push me over the edge is the difficulty that I have saving a file to my own god damned computer.
I love automatic backups to the cloud WHEN I CHOOSE TO USE THEM! I’m tired of Microsoft essentially holding my data for ransom, though.
You can make cloud backups whenever you choose on Linux whenever you want, even to OneDrive.
So far I’ve never had Bazzite nor Mint nor any of my software there force me to put things anywhere.
Just know the Microsoft Office suite and Adobe’s software don’t really work on Linux systems.
Welp, they’re never going to stop, and they’re always going to get more intrusive. Linux is better than it has ever been! Give it a whirl. I suggest Pop!_OS for people who don’t want to mess with their system, and Arch for people who love messing with their system.
Edit: Fedora is a nice middle-ground.
I’m on Garuda. For gaming, I think it’s an ideal option. It’s Arch based but comes with everything set up for gaming, and tools to install whatever you may need. I think it comes with the AUR set up automatically too (or it’s an option that’s easy at least), which isn’t necessary, but it does have some things you may want/need for modding and certain (very few) non-steam games. I think RuneLite for Runescape I got from the AUR, or something like that.
I haven’t tried Pop, and Fedora is alright though I personally didn’t care for it as much.
I have a cheap laptop that I got solely for school to run their anti cheat Spyware for online tests. I hadn’t turned it on since I updated it and it forced me to make a hotmail/outlook account or I couldn’t use the laptop to take my test. Assholes almost made me late for it. Fuck microsoft.
My employer doesn’t care what you think.
If i can get guild wars 2 to run on Linux I won’t need windows anymore
Edit : sorry for the confusion. I have linux running. The next step is to work on gw2. It’s the only thing remaining.
May I ask for further clarification on when you tried when running the game?
I haven’t tried Guild Wars 2 on Linux however it seems like it works according to ProtonDB.
Sorry I should have been more clear. I have mint linux installed. The speakers and the headset works. When I get a chance I need to work on gw2. It’s the last step. Sorry for the confusion.
I think all you have to do is add it to Steam as a non-Steam game and then run it with Proton.
Or add it to Lutris, then it’s also click-and-play without needing an account with another proprietary service that needs to run in the background.
You can also use one of the many Launchers if you don’t want to add it to Steam as a non-steam game. Alternatively, you can also launch it directly with proton/wine yourself, though this is the most annoying option.
It runs without a problem via steam for me on Linux mint. I don’t know how to do whatever setup steam does manually, but you can just launch it through steam and sign in with your anet account. (There’s a config option to open the login window instead of using your steam account for login)
Have you tried playing nethack instead?
Or maybe Dink Smallwood?
There’s numerous howtos out there, and it works like a charm.
Just add it to Steam/Lutris and go, it’s not worth an entire blog post or video about.
Missing a few “got dangs” in there
I tell you h’what that bing ain’t right…
F12 to save
Keep everything local is a great strategy until your house burns down or your hard drive or SSD decides to end it’s own life.
I’m not saying that you should use one drive. I’m saying that you should have backups. If all you can get is cloud storage, then one drive might fit the bill. Maybe it won’t. I don’t know you or what you want from a backup.
I back up my files to a NAS on my lan, but I also use one drive and Google drive when I need to.
All I’m trying to say is: one drive isn’t necessarily the worst option. Raw dogging a single local storage drive as your only copy of the data you’re trying to hold onto, is much worse than one drive.
Other than that, I’ll just reiterate: back up your shit. And I want to add, check your bitlocker to see if it’s on. If it is, back up your recovery key to somewhere safe. Bitlocker, in and of itself isn’t a bad thing. I would argue that it’s best practice to have some kind of FDE, and bitlocker can achieve that. Just back up the recovery key, for the love of God.
Pro tip. “Print” the recovery to a PDF, then email that file to yourself. Quick and easy. The option to save your recovery key to a file, will not allow that file to be saved to the drive that it unlocks, but if you print it, you can save it as PDF without the same limitations. Just don’t leave it on the encrypted drive. Literally put it anywhere else. A USB drive, a NAS, an email, cloud storage, whatever you like. I’m not your boss.
Save yourself a metric fuckton of work, and/or lost data; back to your shit.
In my possession are two, what I’ll call “master” drives. Two 16TB hard drives, exact clones of each other. They hold the bulk media, old photos, an entire library of books, backups with full emulator and rom sets, games, movies, series, Wikipedia backups, encyclopedias, cookbooks, plant guides, carpentry, mechanics, howtos, compressed into the tiniest dots my processor can manage.
Aside from being a backup for my personal files and configurations, It’s essentially an arc of knowledge for societal collapse, granted laser-focused around what I find important, but still, important to someone.
My cousin, who I consider my brother, has a copy of this drive in a small, foam-padded pelican case in his closet. He keeps it for me just in case of a house fire, displacement, or any dangerous situation that renders any of the data at my actual home inaccessible.
While the drives aren’t a perfect clone of my network’s configurations as-is, that backup runs locally, the drives are 80% of the content I serve and would get me 80% of the way back to complete if anything ever happened. They would individually be invaluable if anything ever happened here or I had a Donnie Darko situation, especially if it’s some authoritarian hellscape and the content isn’t even available anymore.
Btw if you aren’t ramping up your data collection due to the Trump goings on, you better be. Download EVERYTHING.
NOW.
RIGHT NOW.
I just have an extra server at a family member’s house and planing on having another at a different location
