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    We have this shit at work, they make it incredibly hard to get a fucking attachment as a real attachment instead of a link to their cloud

    Specially annoying since my organization is “geofence” but we work with people all over the world… So MS insists on switching attachments to links nobody can open outside my country

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      Blame your company for not configuring that shit, or choosing to let MS handle it all.

      Personally, no company should be using Office 365 and external mail. Bring that shit back in house.

      No Know (wtf autoincorrect?) why bringing it in house costs more? Because it’s worth it, for the control.

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        I speak from experience that no one other than professionals should be handling their own mail servers in 2024. I worked for a mail host. The amount of spam and attacks that befall a mail provider, even a small one, is bonkers. Plus, mail is just too damn important.

        I wish it wasn’t the case because the idea of everyone privately hosting their own mail servers would be pretty awesome. Sadly the modern internet makes it way too risky.

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          God if that isn’t the truth. We changed from Thryv to rackspace and we went from zero spam to 30 a day and this is AFTER they block a bunch. Waste of my time every day having to go through them.

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        Yes but If you chose the full attachment, half the time I just get the link

        This is because MS will force it if they think the attachment is an odd extension or too big or whatever

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          No, it only does it when it is too big. And that is very convenient rather than it trying to send your message and then giving you a failure notice. Why are you bitching about features that actively make your life easier?

          There is a lot to bitch at M$ about, but this is not one of them.

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            It doesn’t make my life any better as those links never work.

            If it works for you fine, don’t need to be offended like I insulted your girlfriend

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                Yeah, it sure does sound like it would be hard to have a notification if the attachment is going to fail due to size policies, and then have an option to use the link or cancel the attachment (and have you choose another way). It would also be unheard of for there to be a setting in that dialog to say to always do whatever action you take so it only inconveniences those who go with the default once.

                User-hostile software is never a “you” problem. This applies to a number of FOSS products, as well.

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                  If that were the case, it would confuse users. It would be flooded with tickets about the weird notification that they got and didn’t read and how they can’t attach files anymore.

                  “Cancel the link attachment”???

                  Fucking press backspace! Jesus Christ, did you just get your first computer ever? I’m getting the picture that critical thinking isn’t really your forte.

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    And I also don’t want programs to throw all their crap in the documents folder. AppData is made for that.

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    I uninstalled one drive immediately, it’s so annoying. It’s also really fucky with when it updates files. If I need to use it, I’ll go on my browser

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    Oh you want to delete a file from your folder? Ok, we’ll also delete it from OneDrive so it’s gone forever, see ya!

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    If you save it on your computer instead of on their servers, how could they possibly be expected to analyze your data? Come on now, be reasonable!

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      That’s why they created recent controversy with ai analysing your whole data, another reason to switch to Linux

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            Maybe I’m out of the loop, but afaik they always said that none of the data would ever leave the device.

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                There’s a massive difference between what “usage data” refers to in this context and the kind of data stored and analyzed by Recall locally.

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                  That’s the part that makes everybody nervous though. Everything from the global dragnet surveillance network to the marketing company behind your grocery store app is most interested in “metadata.”

                  Companies like Microsoft will loudly say they don’t want your cat pictures and memes and college papers, they’re not tying your usage to an explicit file with your name and favorite pasta varieties…

                  …BUT that forced transmission of “anonymous user data”, could potentially be super effective in identifying and manipulating you. With enough of it, you can easily put together a profile of an individual.

                  Heck, for a while, TOR would advise against resizing your brower window because the window size in pixels could potentially help fingerprint you on the web. How nuts is that?!

                  Most people actually worried about a spook digging through "\videos\Homework\" are indeed paranoid.

                  But there’s been a lot of research at what can be done even if you’re just “userID 1284hdkfuw724bfiueb”

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    Had that happen at work. I just drag-and-dropped a file into the Outlook web-UI, thinking it’d attach as an e-mail. Turns out, they recently changed that feature and you now have to drop into the right half of the area. If you drop into the left half, it uploads into OneDrive.

    I accidentally did that. The document had personal data inside. That’s a breach of GDPR. Fucking ace.

    (I’m not sure that attaching to the e-mail isn’t also a breach of the GDPR, since my company switched Microsoft 365 for various things. But yeah, I certainly would have liked a confirmation dialog.)

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    I want to save to onedrive. So I can create it from my desktop, modify it from my laptop next week when I’m out of town, and send a link to it to the printer shop that’s gonna print me some copies. Why are you like this?

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      Hey, no one is trying to stop you from doing that. I’m sure it is very convenient for you.

      My point of view though is that automatically uploading my personal files to some corporation computer on the other side of the world should not be the default when I try to save something. Maybe sometimes I’ll want to use that feature, but there are a variety of reasons why I don’t want it most of the time. And I definitely don’t like having to jump through hoops just to avoid it.

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    Insert “use Linux” joke. But I’m absolutely serious when I say that using my company’s M365 stuff using the web versions in Firefox on Linux is pretty pleasant.

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      Hmm, in my experience Microsoft 365 on Firefox (Linux) works horrendously.

      I’m a Firefox user, but when I need to work on OneDrive or Outlook Web I open Chrome because it works way better. And that’s a shame.

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    remember kids when onedrive folders are set to “available on this pc” it does both

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      Except I don’t want it in a OneDrive folder, I want it in My Docs. Which you now have to browse for every fucking time.

      Well, I don’t, because I reconfigured that shit.

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    Adobe pulls that shit too.

    And it’s really easy to not really think about what you’re doing and accidentally save to the cloud.

    Then later wonder what the fuck happened to the file you spent three hours on when you came back from lunch.

    Fucking Adobe.

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      Adobe also recently snuck into their ToS that they could use whatever you made with their products for training AI and then gaslit everyone saying “we never said that” and changed their ToS. You know where you can’t access my stuff? Offline.