I find it incredibly moronic that Word cannot auto save a file every few minutes when it's stored locally on your own hard drive. That feature requires OneDrive.
It's very capable of auto saving locally because it was able to do it in the past.
Fkn clanker Microslop.
"We noticed you haven't been using OneDrive enough so we will create problems and then force you to use OneDrive to fix them" - Microsoft
Microslop*
Word cannot auto save a file every few minutes
But apparently it uploads text to copilot every time you copy 😡
Its even more silly when VS Code and Visual study can do it, without issue
Which is also microsoft products
Different audience. I guess they know they can’t get away with forcing OneDrive on programmers.
They don't need to; most developers rely on Github.
Which is owned by Microslop and has issues about every 3 months.
Yet. It won't stop them from trying.
Computers no longer solve actual problems, and are the problem now.
I still hit ctrl+s after writing every sentence because of when Word would only auto save every 5 minutes, but crash about every 4.
I've been using Publisher for 30 years for all kinds of stuff, and I've gotten really, really good at it, with it all customized to my specs.
Now they're discontinuing it in October, and supposedly it will stop working, and all my stuff will be unusable. I'll have the final PDFs/JPGs/Pngs, etc but none of the files, if I want to modify them, which I do, frequently. I've tried Word, it sucks for graphics.
Now I've got to figure out a new replacement, and start a new learning curve. The one thing I am sure of is that the replacement will NOT be MicroSlop.
I think libre Office writer can do that
I've been using Libre Office Writer for at least 10 years. When I hear people complain about Word, I always think "You're still using Word?"
Call me a shill, but that's why I always used Google Docs when I was in school. Things are instantly saved and I can easily access them on other devices. It was also always how we collaborated on group projects with the ability of multiple people to simultaneously edit power points in a collaborative project.
I don't have use for word processing anymore, but I used Google Docs from like 2012-2020.
Definitely helped a ton because my laptop in grad school would randomly blue screen a lot for no discernible reason. Did that when it was new too and Dell support was no help. I have a suspicion that the processor was actually faulty on a hardware level straight from the factory...as it would have problems both in Windows AND Linux that were "fixed" by dramatically underclocking the CPU. All hardware stress tests would always pass. :/
Anyway, sorry for the random tangent lol.
Back when I was in school (damn does it make me feel old to say "back in my day") I just had one device and collaboratively working on a presentation meant splitting up the parts and everyone sent what they wanted to have on the slides to the one group member who actually created the presentation (and made sure the format and style of bullet points were coherent) in zipped archives via e-mail. Also, we had to either bring our own laptops to show a presentation (at least the schools had beamers) or print that shit on literal OHP transparencies.
Anyway, there are open source alternatives to Google Docs, OneDrive, etc. You could go the NextCloud route or use Cryptpad, both can be either subscribed to through various platforms or even self hosted.
Just to add to your anecdote and provide some alternatives if someone reading this needed to know.
I've said it once and I'll say it again. It's not cloud storage. It's just someone else's computer.
I'm writing materials to teach Windows 11 to someone, and I literally explain Onedrive as "a computer in America".
Head-in-the-cloud storage.
I'm still railing against proprietary phone apps.
We made HTML5, JS, CSS into open standards FOR A REASON
You're not alone, friend. To paraphrase Doctorow, an app is just a website that's a felony to alter. If a company puts a service behind an app that they don't also make available via web, I am either learning to do without that service or looking for foss alternatives. I really don't care about someone's grandpa finding it easier to use an app, fuck you stop using old people to justify killing the web, give me a functioning website.
Do you mean This PC?
Yeah, I was shocked that everybody all jumped on the "You can totally trust us with your most important data and information. We won't ever do anything bad with it" bandwagon.
Oh, by the way, the price just went up, and since they have all your shit, including ALL of your kids' childhood photos, you'll pay it, no matter how much it is, or what they do with it.
Strip it out.
https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat
I find windows intolerable if I don't run that and turn half the shit off.
I find windows intolerable ~~if I don't run that and turn half the shit off.~~
I mean, Linux would be less effort.
Yep. Got tired of constantly having to remove/disable yet one more thing Microsoft added. Or finding out some of my previous debloating was reverted or that I hadn't done it perfectly. If it was just a single checkbox and Microsoft actually honored it, I probably wouldn't be salty right now.
Copying my videos from my phone to my external harddrives as I type this
Self hosted nextcloud server go brrrrr
Funny how they took technology older than http, gave it new misleading name and now promote it as the future
onedrive? more like nonedrive!
the sync shit for it is so bad you'll end up with nothing.
"What's 'my own computer'?"
- Gen Beta
The sad thing is that One drive could honesty be really good.
However, it is so badly written that it eats up tons of resources and doesn't do a terribly good job at syncing.
I'm so stealing that second half and put it on the outside of my cubicle
People should give some Linux distro a try nlinux mint is easy to install and I think easy to use.
I switched in October to Mint and have had very few issues with it. I'm not particularly experienced when it comes to programming and found it pretty straighforward.
I had one sound issue which was fixed in about half an hour with some googling, one with a set of flight pedals not working and a game that won't work with Windows users in multiplayer.
The only one causing me a real issue is the game one, it has taken me hours of searching with only partial fixes.
Overall I think the OS is great and the issues are small teething things, learning the small programing that it has required has made me feel more confident too since there is tons of documentation to help online.
The first thing I did when I got my pc was to uninstall OneDrive and set Proton as my cloud backup. Somehow, it seems my computer reverted my settings without my knowledge.
I used to have a copy of my files, then the EULA changed and I didn’t know where the copy was.
It'll happen to you!
I use nextcloud, so now I can save things in the cloud and the cloud is my computer 😅
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