It is also just one of the worst cloud storage services compared to Dropbox or Seafile

Here's something that I think about that's weird. With onedrive, if you don't pay the subscription fee, they hold your files hostages until you do. That's called a business model, but when people hold their files hostage it's called ransomware. Weird how that works isn't it?

Fuck dropbox. Dropbox uses your data for AI training.

They had some backlash so now it's a toggle depending on your account.

Cancelled them immediately because I originally was using Dropbox to store personal information like tax and backup passwords. And now I know they can/will fuck you over for profit.

✨Nextcloud Gang✨

Considering one drive is just a pretty* front end for SharePoint. No shock it sucks.

*Pretty being relative compared to the horrors of SharePoint

I am so goddamned tired of all the bullshit “value add” stuff that is really just ways to engineer a captive userbase.

This thing breaks several of my video games. I thought I had gotten rid of it fully - but it seems to keep trying to default to it despite OneDrive no longer existing on that PC anymore.

It really, genuinely is.

I have to say, though, the increasingly desperate dark patterns Google is deploying to try to make me pay them for storage are getting up there these days.

The product itself is way better, but if I was going to pay to be subtly threatened with cyberpunk erasure I'm sure there are sexier options.

I'm fully going back to local storage/NAS now, even if it is significantly more expensive.

There is a trend on Lemmy to hate on Windows, Microsoft etc. I get it, they deserve the flak. But I haven't had many issues with Onedrive in particular. Is it because Windows has it preinstalled and tried to get you to use it?

You only have one drive? I have like 6

I work in marketing and have learned this the hard way: If you send news media orgs onedrive links to media content, they won't use it. The link rot sucks so hard and onedrive is so poorly designed, they simply won't use media from those links.

I just wish Dark Souls 3 had Steam cloud support. Like, what the fuck? It's the only one that doesn't.

I read this in Hank hills voice

The one (1) upside is that it's preinstalled on most windows versions, and since our local IT admins refuse to allow installing other cloud storage software (like a nextcloud instance provided by the government), it's the only one I can reliably use at work.

If it actually functioned as a separate storage space I'd love it. But it's actually a mirroring service to bring all your shit to a different computer. So you never actually get more space.

OneDrive isn’t really useful for consumer level so it being crammed down customers throats is dumb. It works great in an enterprise where you use multiple managed computers though. You always have the files you need because they aren’t stuck on the hard drive of a computer that you either aren’t nearby or that is getting re-imaged.