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[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 1 points 7 minutes ago

Lol as if anyone ran their stuff on slowdows

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is Git Hub not considered a cloud? Why does it matter where one stores files, what does that have to do with ability? Or is this really about developing the technology, and in turn provoking said fear in people? (I am not a developer)

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 9 hours ago

GitHub is where you store your code, but it's not where it's actually run

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

i do all my coding in c:\documents and settings

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

All the executable files I build go straight to SysWOW64Not really. I don't have a SysWOW64.
I deleted it long ago, along with System32 and other such things.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 12 hours ago

do all your coding in 8.3 filename convention.

[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 120 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I’d be afraid of anyone referencing “c:\users” too.

[–] slate@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 day ago

"c:\users"? what? c:?

so it isnt a: anymore?

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

"Windows meme makers, can you go five seconds without revealing your appalling lack of technical curiosity?"

Windows Meme Makers: "The C drive! ...... How long was that?"

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

About 260 characters in length I think

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

OP meant to say "click on My Computer," but not everyone is super tech-savvy.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 76 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck OneDrive with a rusty hook.

Ok, so not OneDrive generally but specifically the unholy merging of OD and Win11. JFC when I navigate to a folder and save a file there THAT FILE HAD BETTER FUCKING BE THERE and not in some shadow folder you default mapped to OneDrive because FUCK ME, RIGHT?

This irritates me so much. Get off my lawn.

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 73 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

looks at license agreement

No you don’t.

[–] mitch@piefed.mitch.science 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah, as someone who gave an honest, college try at making use of OneDrive, I maintain its fate vis a vie the rusty hook.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

As a university sysadmin that spent half a fucking hour yesterday trying to log someone out of a classroom computer's MS Office software (the "sign out" button did fuck all, go figure): fuck Microsoft, fuck Office, fuck Outlook, fuck Onedrive, fuck their SSO, and their mother too. Next semester I'm sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they'll like it.

I might be a little angry.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

You have the ability to do that? Super jealous. Everything at my university was so tightly integrated with the windows ecosystem and its accounts that separating would have been an incredible amount of work.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not on my own, I'm technically only responsible for the network and cybersecurity, but not being able to log out of an education account on a public computer is a pretty serious threat. Fortunately I'm on good terms with the dean and he's always been receptive to my concerns.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 20 minutes ago

Well. Now it's a security concern ;)

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I have been out of the PC game for a long time. Got a laptop recently and discovered you need to sign up for a subscription to use the office package, doesnt just come with windows any more. No big deal, my wife says she has a subscription as part of her phone contract.

Cool. Easy.

What. The fuck. Is this mess? Everything is saved on their servers instead of locally? I try to sign myself in but thats impossible because shes signed in except I cant use her licenses because im signed in which im not because shes signed in?

WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED HERE? WHO THE FUCK HAS PUT THEIR NAME TO THIS SHIT? HOW DOES ANY CUNT USE IT?

Not only that but you cant just open excel any more, you have to open the whole windows office launcher portal (which isnt even called office) and fumble your way around to try and find the file first or some bollocks? I don't even know I nearly launched the laptop out the fucking window.

[–] twopi@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 hours ago

I knew you could throw Windows OS onto a laptop. Didn't know you could throw a laptop out of Windows OS.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Just remember to teach them that there are multiple UI variants.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Next semester I'm sanitizing the computers. Students will use LibreOffice and they'll like it.

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Lmao I did the same thing today, trying to teach a particularly.. 'beginner' user how to sign into outlook. I was going to have them sign in again in front of me, but without my help. It wouldn't sign out so I just gave up

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago

As a young engineer I went all in on SharePoint when it came to our company. Became evangelical and learned how to make it do all sorts of shit.

How naive I was...

[–] Rokin@leminal.space 96 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please use /home/ instead.

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

/home/ what? it needs to be /home/$(whoami)

[–] rhpp@programming.dev 31 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nah it should be $HOME, not everyone's home directory is in the default location.

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] HER0@beehaw.org 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but as shown in your link, $HOME does not conflict with the XDG Base Directory Specification. It partially relies on $HOME being defined.

[–] Speiser0@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

Subdirs of $HOME are used as defaults. So using $HOME alone is not enough. Also, prior to xdg dirs, applications were (many still are) storing their data under $HOME/.myapplication/.

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

no, he obviously means localhost

or localguest, if you dont host the local party

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait I'm confused is this about people developing cloud software or is this about people who do their development on a remote cloud machine? It seems to be about the latter but I've never seen that

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 17 minutes ago

I'd say it's about cloud techs being "scared" of the local storage.
As it's usually linux on servers and windows on-prem workstations I'd say it's them being scared of storing anything locally.

[–] python@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Oooh the latter would make so much more sense! I'm not a cloud developer, but a good chunk of the code I write runs in AWS Lambdas and EC2 Images and I was so confused as to what relation that would even have to local storage. If anything, I'm afraid of Terraform and it's arcane power

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

~

boo!

edit: i guess my tilde shows up as a tick. welp..... time to die in cringe of myself.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

It's ok. I see a tilde. And yes, ~

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

No, you are…

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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's hilarious, OP! Now do Vibe coding!

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Or like 95% of my college students. :(

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

My Windows libraries are mapped to my G Drive. Save it in Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, whatever? Backed up on a local (shitty) RAID and automatically uploaded to my Google account. Burn my house down, I got it all for $100 bucks a year insurance.

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