GreatBlueHeron

@GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca

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GreatBlueHeron , to Nostalgia in Back in my day we used Corel WordPerfect at school.

WP 5.1 on DOS for me. Kids these days and their fancy WYSIWYG.

GreatBlueHeron , to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

My issue was specifically the windows sync client - not server or web related. I turned on debug in the client and watched the logs and saw it making stupid (IMHO) decisions about speed throttling.

GreatBlueHeron , to Technology in OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions

I'm in a similar situation - I'm a (retired) Unix admin and have Linux servers at home but I'm still on windows for my desktop because of OneDrive. If you use it as intended, it works really well. I can login to my laptop, my phone or either of my wife's PC's and all my stuff is just there.

Yes, I've tried nextcloud and it's close, but the windows sync client is (was?) broken - the upload speed throttling logic is broken and it was going to take ages to sync my data. I went to the nextcloud community and it seemed to be a known issue that know one cares about because the sync just happens in the background and it's done when it's done.

As I typed this I realised that if I move to Linux desktop I don't care about the windows sync client :-) So now I've just got the issue that I won't get my wife off windows and if we're paying for 5TB of cloud storage, I might as well use it. Yes, I know there are ways to use OneDrive on Linux, but it doesn't look as seamless and I'd be always concerned that Microsoft will do something to break it.

GreatBlueHeron , to Science Memes in Garfield

Is the +C "new"? I have a B.Sc majoring in mathematics. Now I graduated over 30 years ago and I never used much that I leaned in my degree during my career - so I couldn't differentiate or integrate to save my life today. But, the equations at least look familiar. The +C does not.

GreatBlueHeron , to Asklemmy in What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?

You're probably about my age. I was just late getting into computers. First attempt at university was dumb terminals connected to some Unix host. Failed everything and dropped out. Went back a few years later and had 8086 based PCs booting DOS off diskettes.

GreatBlueHeron , to Asklemmy in What was your first operating system or Linux Distribution?

Took a while, but I found "me". Slackware 3.1 was 3 or 4 boxes of floppies if I remember correctly. A full box, or more maybe, for X!

fvwm2?

GreatBlueHeron , to InsanePeopleFacebook in Sovereign citizen is getting a world passport, which of course is fake.

And I spent most of my life so far in Australia so I default to needing an airline to go anywhere.

GreatBlueHeron , to InsanePeopleFacebook in Sovereign citizen is getting a world passport, which of course is fake.

I don't think they'll be able to leave - no airline is going to board them with fake docs.

GreatBlueHeron , to FoodPorn in Toro and uni from my fav place

Wow - I'd forgotten about Flickr

Food looks good!

GreatBlueHeron , to askmenover30 in Men over 30, how often do you drink?

One beer early evening. We eat later.

GreatBlueHeron , to Map Enthusiasts in Population density of Africa

That was my first thought when I saw it too, but I went and looked and was reminded how bad my geography knowledge is!

There's really not much in the southern hemisphere. I spent most of my life in Australia and generally thought of Africa and South America as being down under with us, but 2/3 of Africa is above the equator and even 10% of South America is "north".

GreatBlueHeron , to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. in Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Impending Climate Crisis as Early as 1954

I just learned about Eunice Foote yesterday. We've known about it since 1856!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Newton_Foote

GreatBlueHeron , to U.S. News in IRS Collected Half a Billion Dollars in Back Taxes From Delinquent Millionaires in 2023, Sentencing Some to Prison

Yeah, it's good news but to put it in perspective - my really rough, and probably wrong, math puts that at 0.03% of the net worth of the 10 richest people combined.

They don't need to target millionaires, it's the billionaires they need to hit.

GreatBlueHeron , to Asklemmy in Lemmings, do you use any social media outside of the Fediverse?

Yep - I use Facebook and Instagram regularly. I spend a lot of time in both tapping on "hide this" or "show less of this" or "report and block user", but I find it worth it for the interactions with some like minded people in hobby related groups. I'm aware of the privacy implications, but I figure I've been there for so long there's not much more for them to learn about me. I use ad and tracker blocking to slow them down a little.

GreatBlueHeron , to World News in Saudi Arabia opens its first-ever alcohol store — but it's only accessible to a select group

I assume enforcing the no photography rule?

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