17 points

But, cyborg Bill Gates needs your data to survive. You do want him to survive, don’t you?

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Oh man, the memories… it wasn’t so long after “Best of Both Worlds” aired for the first time, that the Bill Gates of Borg meme was going viral on BBSs and Usenet. Oh how we laughed… and cried, for it was funny but true.

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Bill Gates doesn’t really do anything at Microsoft anymore

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Nah man I’m pretty sure mecha-cyborg Bill Gates is running things there.

Damn you’re dense.

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22 points

I want to save to the share drive that looks like a regular folder path.

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Is that not how it works? I could have sworn I had it working that way the last time I used it in 2017. Had it rigged up as the location for Da Vinci Resolve database saves and also as a backup location for an Avid project that automatically copied to that folder every day. Wasn’t a fan of OneDrive as I had dropbox personally and didn’t want another cloud service where I stored all my data as one was probably bad enough, however the production I was working on had no IT infrastructure and no money and the computer we rented for the production for some reason seemed to offer oneDrive for free with the machine. (Maybe it was something to do with the 365 subscription it had?). On that basis since it was already there I used it and it actually ended up saving our asses later on after some other backup procedures didn’t end up being followed as they should have and the piece of shit rental machine totally and catastrophically broke. Still haven’t used it since, but I was pretty happy with it at the time and was only able to do all that because it was indeed a regular folder location on the machine that happened to sync with the cloud.

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OneDrive decided to kick on after an overnight update and uploaded some projects and vst plugins to the cloud. Apparently, the files weren’t accessible except via the cloud, so I lost a few hours re-downloading my folders before I could do anything. I don’t know if I’ve ever been more furious over technology that I theoretically owned.

I got a PC in order to eventually go back to Linux, where at least I know that when something goes wrong, it’s generally my own fault and somewhat easy to troubleshoot. Unfortunately, the plugins I’ve been using only have Windows and Mac versions. If I had done a bit more research, I probably would have just gone with an apple device.

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95 points

Do I look like I know what a OneDrive is?

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20 points

All hail the Blessed Virgin!

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9 points

I just need a picture of a god danged hot dog

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167 points

the documents folder on the computer that Microsoft has in your house

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How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it’s AI. Or some other bullshit.

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lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they’ll be ready to do it

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28 points

Not sure if it’s still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.

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And you’ll have to pay them a subscription fee to do it. If you don’t pay, your computer is bricked.

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And how long before the come into your house, steal your stuff, and kick your dog?

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