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We Were Forced to Switched to Windows 11 At Work
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this post was submitted on 07 Oct 2024
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The bazinga recommendations/ads/proposals to take things to the clooooooud or to play with planet-burning "AI" shit are some of the worst.
Be sure to manually switch off "Recall" ASAP. Fuck that spyware shit.
Also do your best to disable/uninstall "OneDrive" because it can and will "randomly" make files you thought you saved locally disappear into the bazinga ether.
Discovered something horrific while doing support for a tech illiterate friend. Was trying to go to the desktop folder in explorer but C:\Users\Name\Desktop was nowhere to be found. Instead it was at C:\Users\Name\OneDrive\Desktop.
Pretty common for corpo staff
Usually means you can exfil heaps of stuff though
and it requires registry edits to fix them back to normal
So like I have to assume that this is the case for a large amount of Windows users. Doesn't this essentially put everyone's Home directory at a single point of failure?
I wouldn't put it that way. I assume they are only doing it by default for some folders like ~\Desktop, ~\Documents etc. For the average user this "feature" must be transparent in the sense that mostly you won't notice that this "feature" is in effect. Just that the onedrive daemon is gonna be syncing changes to these folders to the cloud. They will only notice this "feature" when they get a notification saying that their cloud storage is running out of space to sell them a subscription to expanded storage space.
Exactly my experience.
Yep.
That "OneDrive" shit is like so many things techbro: creepy, intrusive, deceptive, and doesn't respect consent.
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