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I'm also unsure what they wanted Microsoft to do. Just store data that apparently doesn't belong to anyone anymore forever?

OneDrive turns itself on after an update so what you think is local data can easily become cloud data. Then while you're not paying attention to a long running system they quietly delete it. Then folks like you come out of the woodwork to defend them. It's hilarious.

What system would still be storing this locally long after the user has left the company?

The second half of your comment is bordering on a personal attack and not very helpful.


You are the example I was pointing out. At no point did I say anything about a company account. This happens on all windows machines. You can for example login to a machine acting as a server simply to use the Microsoft store to install something only to have it start syncing your files to that machine or even intermingle them and then force you to go through a tedious clean up process.

I have seen grandparents accidently lose all their files because they didn't know their files were being synced and then when they removed the Microsoft account from their machine suddenly their files are missing. Situations where they were told by support to logout / login only to lose all their data. These people take weeks or months to finally get someone's attention about the problem irl and these are precisely the types of people who will now be losing data because of the cavalier attitude from the so called experts.


That sounds awful and it's indefensible.

But it's not the subject of this article. Making this particular change sound like a problem, when it isn't (as far as I can tell), only makes it harder to understand where there are genuine issues.


Then the actual issue is that OneDrive syncs deactivated (empty) accounts to your system, deleting the offline files as well..?

I've seen all sorts of situations. The problem is that after updates OneDrive tends to turn itself on or enable syncing when it was previously disabled without telling you. Or you use a Microsoft account to install something through their store and bam suddenly the local drive is intermingled with yours. It's a mess precisely because it's built in.

To make it have a different license which can be used in closed-source projects.


When they do that (e.g. in customer support) I sometimes do the same. I explain to the AI what my end goal is, and then let it deal with the answers.


It was good for finding answers. But as a community to actually participate it was horrible. You couldn't even answer questions, because if you didn't get enough likes they would block you from answering any more.


Huh? That's not how it works at all.


I was unable to post answers to the questions within my domain of knowledge, because I didn't post answers (and get likes) outside of my domain of knowledge.

There's a minimum threshold of likes ("reputation") necessary to post in many parts of that service.


No. No there's not. If you get lots of downvotes on answers you might get banned from answering further questions until you improve your reputation score, but there's nothing like what you describe.


I remember reading somewhere that the highest risk is you falling off the table while you are sedated.


Can also confirm that the worst part was the prepping. You have to dring 2 liters of liquid that give you diarrea... The second liter is the worst, since the body learns that it's "poison" and triggers all the reflexes to make you not swallow it.


Most programming languages and tools are free and open source. Software developers will not code you an app for free.


Didn't work for me. It barely even show me content that my friends create. It's all reaction videos and conspiracy nonsense. Even if you block those channels, another one with a slightly different name pops up.


Are you sure? For me they always struggle and forget code after about 300 lines.


In all of my school years, essays were THE WORST kind of exam there was. The grading was highly arbitrary anyway... Good that AI is killing that.


Essays might not be a great tool for providing consistent grading, but as a tool for learning to think through an idea, learning to structure arguments coherently, to research your point and find counter factual, it is unmatched. Education __should__ optimize for learning, not grading.


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