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.
Time to install Linux
Ah yes, something that creates an even bigger headache for playing games is exactly what I need…
Proton is actually really good now
Idk about that. I put Linux on a second drive in my main PC a couple months ago and tried a handful of games, I don’t think I got any of them to work.
I know I tried baldurs gate 3, The Forest, and I think Satisfactory.
I’m sure that someone is going to call me an idiot for not being able to figure it out, but the point of the parent comment was that Proton is “really good now”, implying it shouldn’t be a headache, and if it takes more than 5 minutes for a game to simply launch that’s exactly what it is.
You only have one drive? I have like 6
What do you need 6 for?
Uhh
Mostly family pictures. Definitely not copyright infringement, that’s for sure
Even if I was a prolific pirate with hundreds of gigabytes of mostly decades-old anime across my several hard drives, I would never admit to it
Most of us don’t have a need for that amount of built-in storage. External drives and even USB memory sticks meet the needs of probably 95% of people. I don’t begrudge you your mega-storage system (I think it’s pretty cool), but I have a 1TB SSD and a 2TB external, and I have plenty of storage. Granted, I’m not doing anything graphic or audio intensive. If I didn’t have kids or didn’t have to work full time, I’d probably need more, but with my available free time and budget, this works.
✨Nextcloud Gang✨
My demands are smaller so I just do syncthing to a server
NGINX autoindex + Wget + SSH fuckery (a.k.a.: “Lazy turd solution”)
Idea:
You can put files into selected directory for filesharing which will be used as root directory for NGINX. When you enable autoindex you’ll get the classic directory listing you see on places like Linux ISO mirrors.
That will be the file source.
To download, you’ll simply download from that autoindex page.
Uploading is, uuuhh, creative.
You have to also run NGINX server the same way on the upload side, either have them on same network or use reverse SSH forwarding, and then SSH into the machine you wish to upload to and download the files into it with Wget (or at least I use Wget) from the locally running server.Example config I last used on my phone as the upload side:
daemon off; events {} http { server { listen 192.168.34.217:8080; root /storage/emulated/0/LibreTorrent/; location / { autoindex on; } } }Yes, the indentation, I know.
I read all that then had the thought:
Rclone does all this with like 1 command line, doesn’t it? Recently was looking into synching my seedbox with my home media server and every guide was “use rclone and a script that detects when a file is added/removed to trigger the synch”
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?
I mean not providing a service because you stopped paying the cost you agreed to for the service is quite different from forcibly destroying random people’s data if they don’t give you as much money as you demand
It’s not like they remotely connect to your pc and wipe your hard drive if you don’t pay up
But they have control to your cloud files and they can and will lock those files from being pulled from the cloud
Isn’t it the same with all cloud files?
Yes. You’re paying for the storage space and access to it…I think “* as a service” is anti-consumer but I really don’t understand how anyone could think they’re entitled to keep using a service after they stop paying for it.
You are abandoning your files if you don’t download them before your subscription ends. Providers aren’t stealing it and holding it hostage…
So if someone is paid to help you load your groceries, and then because you don’t tip them, that means they’re allowed to take the groceries that they loaded back into the store?
False equivalence. You are not “tipping” cloud providers, you are paying them to perform a service.
Let’s try a modified analogy and put you in the scenario…
You digitize cassettes for a living. Someone across the country sends you one and asks you to convert it to an MP3. You received the tape and digitize it …but they refuse to send the money.
Are you allowed to not send the files? Are you allowed to not send the tape back? The answer to both is yes.
Not a false equivalence at all. People before you created this platform, you paid for said platform (let’s say windows. You purchase a prebuilt pc, so the operating system and access to the services are paid for at initial purchase (key point). THEN Microsoft says "Hey this service is involved. Check it out. We’ll store what you need. Download and register here… Sweet! It’s setup you got your files uploaded… Now pay me and I’m not letting you see or use the files without paying me.
How is that business model justified?
Sure, but you put them there, without taking backups, and then stopped paying them to keep them
So someone who works at a grocery store is paid to help you load your groceries in the car, but you don’t tip them. Does that mean they’re allowed to take whatever groceries they already loaded back into the store?
No, because that’s not what tips are for? But if you don’t pay for the groceries, then yeah, they should be allowed to not give you the groceries, because that’s how buying things works
But if you specifically agree to pay someone a certain amount of money to load your groceries in advance, then refuse to pay them, it’s totally valid for them to not load your groceries, because you didn’t pay for the service you bought
Jesus Christ on a bike
Weird how consent works
