Don't know about email, but windows 8 would create dynamic tiles out of pictures on your computer and pin them in the start menu.
It was a vital teaching lesson. It taught me not to put porn in My Documents. I think the times were generated by files there.
Because the next version of Windows started strongly recommending all My Documents files get moved to One Drive.
Ah yes, the good old onedrive documents takeover. I had some VMs in my documents folder on my work laptop, then onedrive installed itself and took over my documents folder. It tried to "sync" my files and ran into an error because I use those VMs and it isn't smart enough to retry after the file has been closed.
So I moved the file in question, rebooted because that's the only thing that reliably works in windows and onedrive seemed to run again. I gave it a whole day with gigabit LAN for 60GB of files and it didn't manage to do it, so I tried to move all the VM stuff away.
But guess fucking what? Those files aren't on my PC anymore, they're just links to the cloud now and when I try to copy them to somewhere else, it reliably errors out after about 2 minutes of doing nothing. The tray icon says it's doing something, but it doesn't list any files it's working on and task Manager shows it isn't working on any files.
Needless to say that the VM that's been "synced" to the cloud doesn't boot now.
I hate Microsoft with a passion.
Update: Onedrive says it filled the entire available space (a whole TB), but the VMs were just 200GB. So I clicked the "free storage" link it showed, which lead to a sharepoint website where I found out that onedrive keeps a version history (which isn't indicated in any way in the desktop application) and counts size without deduplication, so I caused my company about 50€/month of cost without knowing.
And the best part? When I try to delete old versions, it just says "Sorry, that didn't work".
Not sure if I should laugh or cry.
Lmao, Microsoft does a little trolling
When we first got Amazon Fire sticks around the house, my wife set them up under her email. One day we left it on and a screensaver comes up running through all of the photos on her phone.
Luckily she's an innocent sweetheart, but I'm sure glad I didn't set it up under my email.
when anon switches to arch :
Who hurt you?
Ya during video calls at my work it's always the entire room waiting for the Linux users to troubleshoot their sound and video. Usually they give up and join the call from their iPhone
Windows for workstations and Linux for servers imo.
I just use qpwgraph so if audio isn't playing, either it isn't registering (source apps fault, doesn't happen often though) or it's going to the wrong place and I can quickly switch it around. Bonus points for being able to route music through your microphone to play it for teammates
What the fuck kind of “photos add-on” does this
None that I know of...and definitely not built into Windows
Should've installed gentoo.
I did that. Unironically, I just said fuck it, I'll give it a shot.
And... it just works. Like updates kinda fuck up a bit after not using it for a bit (I didn't have time to use my desktop lately), but everything works great.
I'm sure I could get mostly the same experience with Arch, but it's just fun to flag off entire parts of software from even compiling. Also OpenRC is great.
I can stream Steam games, which works much better on Gentoo than Ubuntu with the same hardware.
Gentoo is not a meme, the compiles on modern CPUs are fast, software is wonderfully packaged, and I will not use anything else on my desktop ever.
I know, my dad used gentoo in his glory days on pentium machines probably spending days compiling Firefox. Gentoo is way less of a meme now than what it was then. It's actually a good distro if you want control.
I see your problem you’re using windows
