• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 days ago

    For IT purposes, i fuckin’ love it. Forced sync of Desktop and Documents folders for users, all the email is server-side. no more bitching about data loss. “Did you use one drive like you said you would when you clicked “OK” to that user agreement?”

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      21 days ago

      My favourite part is when you log into your work PC, and a bunch of things you deleted 6 months ago have re-appeared on your desktop.

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        21 days ago

        My favorite part was when my laptop charger crapped out yesterday, and instead of syncing the super important files that I was working in, and I needed today, onedrive crashed… Piece of shit software

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        21 days ago

        That happened because you unlinked OneDrive 6 months ago, or it deauthenticated and was never signed back in. Without being connected, it never got the memo that those files were removed so it never deleted those things from there.

        The same thing would happen if you uninstalled any other program and then deleted the now local-only files, or if you restored from a 6 months old backup.

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        21 days ago

        I’d normally agree, but keeping it tied to AD is nice, and data exfiltration is a major enough concern for my environment that third-party cloud storage is thoroughly blocked.

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        21 days ago

        In the US, Dropbox’s cost of entry is $120/$144 per year depending on whether or not you go month to month. The majority of users don’t need a 2TB storage plan.

        OneDrive starts at $20/$24 for 100GB, $70/$84 for a 1TB plan, or $100/$120 for a 6-user family plan that totals 6TB.

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          21 days ago

          Ah. Well I guess it depends on how much storage you need. For my purposes, the 12 GB I got my free account up to has worked well. I just sent a bunch of referral links to friends and each time got a bump in storage space.

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      Exactly. It’s very useful in a managed environment. It’s performance overheads suck though.Way too much CPU usage.

      But it should not be part of Windows, only office 365 or as an optional 3rd party service.

      Same story with icloud on Apple and Google Drive on Android.

      No free version of a paid cloud service should be included in any OS. It should require a separate opt-in sign up. Have we not learnt anything from the Microsoft antitrust cases.

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        20 days ago

        Absolutely. The average consumer device shouldn’t have any kind of internet dependancies baked into the OS, IMO. It should always be installed/enabled separately. There’s still vast swathes of the US that don’t have reliable internet.