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We Were Forced to Switched to Windows 11 At Work (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 week ago by barrbaric@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Paint now has built-in AI image bullshit.

Death to Microsoft.

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[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Hexboare@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Pretty common for corpo staff

Usually means you can exfil heaps of stuff though

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

and it requires registry edits to fix them back to normal agony-shivering

[-] roux@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] Tom742@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

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.