Microsoft anything, really
OneDrive/SharePoint is worse than Teams. fight me
ofc I would never say I love Teams
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Onedrive is a nightmare.
Once made the mistake of keeping some personal photos in the 'pictures' directory of my own laptop.
Then started a course at uni, installed the free student version of MS365 or whatever it's called, including onedrive.
Next thing i know, I get a popup notification displaying the 'best of' my private photos on screen, while I'm showing colleagues something on my laptop!
They deleted pics I saved. I have everything in my own drives and shut one drive out of my computer. POS
At this point, any file you store in Windows is temporary only. Backup it to your phone if you want to be sure.
And, of course, neither of them is private. Expect them to be sent to everybody you know with your name attached.
This is not the future we were promised. I never would have thought that we would have to be our own security experts to save ourselves from the companies we depend on.
not to be "the guy" ... but there are alternatives, surprisingly simple, if you just give it a try
Ha ha ha, I get what you're putting down. It's just another thing I have to deal with and I have no idea on how to start. You guys seem great, I just can't even begin to think about it. I'm procrastinating enough on my paid projects.
yeah i know exactly the feeling, i want to get into coding, but there is just so much information out there, some of it conflicting, much of it incomprehensible to a layman like me, it feels overwhelming, impossible
but i do think linux is much easier, in the last 5-10 years it has become much more welcoming
if you have a bit of time, and an 4+ gig usb stick, you can see it for yourself
download etcher
download linux mint (i like to get the torrents, to feel like i give back a bit)
use etcher to write the iso image on the usb
restart and select the usb in the bios boot menu (it usually shows a key to get into the bios, usually f1 or f2 or delete, and a separate one for just the boot device selection, f11 or f12, the latter only temporarily changes the boot device. if it goes by too quick, next restart you can hold the key before it even shows)(oh also on newer pcs windows can "cover up" the bios boot process, in that case you need to go through windows settings>recovery>"restart now")
wait a minute for the usb to boot (it won't be quick, especially if you're used to ssd speeds)
try mint out, see how it works. you can install stuff with the "software manager", it won't remember anything, it's all temporary (unless you delete/edit stuff from your hard drives, so be mindful of that)
watch a movie, browse the internet, try libreoffice etc, maybe see what's available of what you need for your paid projects
i imagine it won't happen immediately but if you feel okay with what you see, i'd recommend installing mint on a separate, empty ssd, set the bios to boot from that drive, install everything on there (you can put the boot partition on other drives, but i would advise against that)
this way the installer will recognise windows, and you can choose which operating system to use, when you turn on your pc, so you don't lose windows, you can get used to linux at your own pace.
i did the same thing, i had a linux (ubuntu) install for 15+ years on all my pcs, i booted it up every now and then, but there was always something that put me off, but then, about 5 years ago i tried linux mint, and slowly but surely i spent more and more time with it, until it became the default instead of windows
reading back this wall of text, i too think "simple huh", but i try to prepare for eventualities and assume little to no knowledge. i didn't even write about how to install a new ssd
and i want to be helpful not just to you, pelespirit, but anyone who might come across this
I appreciate you typing all that out and I saved it. I can't make any promises though.
yeah i know exactly the feeling, i want to get into coding, but there is just so much information out there
Pick a problem, then pick the python library/framework that solves it, follow the tutorial, and adapt it to solve your problem.
It will be a bad piece of code that barely works. That's how you start, there's no other way. After it, pick another problem or an improvement, solve it again, and so on.
After a while abandon python, because only bad programmers stay with a single language. Or don't if you want to stop there, because not everybody has to become good at everything.
Every single file you put in onedrive is stolen by m$ to train their shitty AI.
I bought Windows laptops for my elderly parents a couple of years ago. The default screen saver was something that just showed a rotation of pictures. This seemed innocent enough until my parents started saving pictures on their computers ... and these pictures started showing up in the screensaver rotation, unbidden. They're far too old for this to have produced anything embarrassing, but jesus fucking christ Microsoft!
Personal photos, or personal photos?
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“[…] I love Teams”
- mrgoosmoos, 2025
hey you can't do that
"You can[...] do that"
Cited like a true journalist
MS DOS was nice. Nothing special, but definitely not shit.
The multibillion dollar company I work for hosts literally everything on Teams and OneDrive. We absolutely have the capacity for storage on-site, we absolutely have the capacity to spin up our own cloud. They just do it this way because "well it's already there".
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I've said that, and meant it, but it was when Teams first came out. At the time, it was just a bare-bones Slack clone with the alternative being the godawful Skype for Business. lol.
All they had to do was just stop making it worse from there.
Microsoft: hold my beer!
I know, right? Ballmer was batshit crazy but at least you could squint your eyes and his decisions kind-of made sense (e.g. Windows 8 was a turd, but you could at least see what he was trying to do). Nadella has just shoved in cloud and now AI bullshit since he took over, and no thanks.
Confirmed hilarious by an actual stroke victim.
lol! You had a stroke!?
No, my wife. I ran it by her and got a hearty laugh.
What does she think of Microsoft Teams?
She has an objectively correct opinion on it.
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Actual signs of a stroke for those who want to or should know: the acronym is FAST- face, arm, speech, time to call 911.
Or FAST VAN if you want to be a first aid nerd.
V - visual disturbance
A - aphasia
N - neglect (of use of body parts they would otherwise probably be using)
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I had hope for Microsoft when they came out with WSL and VS Code.
I was a fool, of course.
WSL is good though, whenever I am forced to use windows I install it.
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So, so true.
I redesigned my team's intranet at work so we could minimize the use of Teams as much as possible.
So uh, what's everyone using these days to call internationally to cell phones or company landlines? Because teams looks like they've cut all that functionality for me, unless I'm just not understanding their dumbass interface.
We never had the ability to make outside calls from teams, only teams to teams calls. We went from physical phones on desks to Cisco soft phone since lockdown.
Got it. So basically micro$hit shut down Skype with nothing to replace it.
Yep, but don't worry I'm sure they're busy vibe coding an update to teams to allow outside calls once you sign up for a phone subscription.
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The first one can also just be a sign of ventriloquism, though.
I never knew strokes were so similar to signs of intellectual disability.
I have a stroke every time I hear that obnoxious BONK and now I have to deal with another one of my boss's enigmatic poorly-worded urgent requests...
But I do like MS teams
Stockholm syndrome.
Help is on the way. An ambulance will be at your location shortly.
It's so calming when it just decides to not get any new message for a day and starts removing meetings from your schedule...
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There is so much to like!
I think my favourite is when you go through the files in a team then click "Copy link". It thinks, thinks, thinks, then when it's done it has a big green tick but doesn't actually copy the link until you click a second copy link button.
But I do quite like how when you find the file you want and switch to a chat then it loses your place. And as far as I can tell, there's no way to bookmark a folder, which is great.
Long story short I love how it tries to do everything instead of being good at one thing!
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