greybeard

joined 1 year ago
[–] greybeard@feddit.online 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Welcome! I know it can be confusing at first.

FYI, Lemmy, MBin/KBin, and Piefed are all different servers. People often say Lemmy when they mean threadiverse as a whole. It's kinda like email though, even if you use gmail, I can email you from yahoo. The interface may vary a little, but the core function is the same.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As bbbbbbbbbbb said, every state not only has their own plates, but multiple plate designs. Some states, the variations will be completely different colors and number length. Absolutely no consistency.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 3 points 1 month ago

I use an nvidia shield, and used the developer options to disable Google's built in launcher (and most other google related services). That's what it takes to keep your chosen launcher. I also used an app to remap the netflix button on that stupid toblerone they call a remote to act as a mute button, so accidentally pressing it doesn't cause me a minute of trying to get back to my content.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Better alternatives existing doesn't give Windows a free pass to be as shitty as they want.

[–] greybeard@feddit.online 7 points 1 month ago

One thing a lot of people here seem to miss: The onedrive app actually calls it "Backup". So users assume they have a copy of it on their computer and it is "backed up" to OneDrive.

But the other thing OneDrive does is turn on "Selective Sync", where it will actually delete the files off your local device "to free up storage". It looks like it is on your local computer, but when an app goes to use it, OneDrive quickly downloads it so the app is none the wiser that it wasn't actually there a moment ago. This is all seamless to the user, until one day they are offline and can't get to most of their files, or they lose access to their Microsoft account.

Everything a user needs to know is in the interface, Microsoft gives little symbols on the file to specify if there is a local copy or not, but most users have no idea what any of that means.

To top it off, just a little icing on the cake, if a user signs into the computer with a Microsoft account, bitlocker (full disk encryption) is automatically turned on, and the recovery key is shoved in their Microsoft account. This is convenient, but if they lose access to their Microsoft account, they can't log into the computer to get it, and they can't log into the website to get the bitlocker key. So even if their files are still on the PC, they have zero way to recover them.

Honestly, they've created a very convenient system, until it is impossible to recover anything. Business Environments have administrators that can help users by resetting their passwords or pulling a bitlocker key out of Intune, but for a home user? You're just SOL.

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