• fossman2112@lemmy.ml
    36·
    20 days ago

    i had the misfortune yesterday of setting up a new Windows 11 PC for a non-profit that I do some volunteer work with. the amount of times that it re-enabled OneDrive, after I had already disabled it, was infuriating. In less than an hour, it re-connected my credentials to the stupid fucking machine half a dozen times and began to download my personal files, without anything resembling consent.

    The experience was enough to finally get me to set up my own NextCloud instance so that I can get rid of all cloud files (OneDrive, iCloud, and google drive) for good. Fuck these fucking companies and their enshittified products.

  • Rooty@lemmy.world
    24·
    20 days ago

    Now only if there were a nice alternative to Android. I might get a Fairphone with Ubuntu touch.

      • BJ_and_the_bear@lemmy.world
        1·
        19 days ago

        I would love to go real Linux on the smartphone, but it seems perpetually “not quite there yet,” at least from the reviews I’ve seen. Can it offer reliable calling and SMS?

        Also wish PostmarketOS supported more devices, but I get it that that’s mostly on the device manufacturers not release critical specs and firmwares

  • Huschke@lemmy.world
    18·
    19 days ago

    I’m ashamed to say that it took me installing Windows 11 on my mother in law’s laptop while running a pihole and seeing the amount of requests to shady data brokers the install wizard made to finally move to Linux.

    If I had known how seemless everything is, especially with distros like Bazzite, I would have switched way sooner.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world
    3·
    19 days ago

    “Ответственный взрослый говорит «нет» проприетарным операционным системам.”

    Original text.

  • Ordinary_Person@lemmy.ca
    3·
    19 days ago

    Man, I so WISH I could say no to windows. I would install Mint today if I could. It just won’t install. It begins to install and then just hangs for hours and never installs. I’ve tried other distros and they all fail, one way or another. I’m pretty sure (but not positive) it has something to do with my bios settings but no matter what I try, I have no luck.