You have to click through to a third save dialogue just to choose “Browse my files…”.
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This might be when I finally jump ship and go to Linux. I should do Mint, right?
Having switched many relatives to Linux recently too, Mint will be your best jumping off point for a familiar feel and pain free experience as someone new to Linux. If you love that and find yourself wanting more, then the world is your oyster! I started on Mint and ultimately settled on Fedora Plasma after trying out a half dozen different options.
That sounds pretty much like ransomware to me.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Windows!
laughs quietly in Linux
this operating system still costs like $100
Not to be used to train AI. We promise.
LLM's out here running wild. How Rude.Maybe I should switch to Linux again.
They'd break SO MANY international and data security laws if they tried breaking into people's OneDrive, it'd be hilarious to see the number of lawsuits they'd lose by default.
they're probably already doing that to a smaller degree, and slightly protecting themselves with an obscure clause in their TOS. besides, you only lose lawsuits if you get caught - and churning things through AI is a great way to erase any fingerprints that identifies stolen data
Libre office does the job for me! Auto save on cloud sucks. At least you can turn it off! For now.
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this has been goin on for like a year now. i have an offline profile with no onedrive on my machine, and tried the latest office. theres a slider saying autosave, but i was unable to use it. felt kinda weird that there is no autosave feature anymore. turns out autosave has been a cloud save option, and poor excel was not able to savemy private data to the onedrive datafarm. also the new excel is super slow compared to like the 2016 version, which indicates that theres more bloat under the hood.
To anyone thinking "LibreOffice still has issues", here's the LibreOffice donation page to help them fix it up and be rid of MS Office forever.
im using a cracked version, i also dont have cloud for ms, no problem there.
I’d rather use old ass word perfect at this point
Just use libreoffice
I still use Wordpad to write all my gay dinosaur erotica, am I safe?
Last time I checked there was Copilot integration in NotePad. So I wouldn't assume WordPad is safe from anything
Mr Tingle, its an honor, and you should be at the moment, but please consider a more proper way of writing literature such as LaTeX or Vim
"or" ?
It depends how gay is it? And do dinosaurs mate in packs?
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Cool It finally gets Google docs core functionality after only 20 years. How innovative.
Actually it had auto save for more than a decade. It's just that now they removed the ability to autosave locally, it must be to onedrive.
It didn't remove anything, they're just changing the default save location. You can revert it if you want, it's all in the article...
You haven't been able to autosave locally for many years already. Changing the default save location is just for when you press save.
This is extremely minor. I don’t understand the fuss.
Google Docs has been a thing for 20 years? Wow I feel old
this is their patch for the whole disk data loss debacle
I'll just use LibreOffice, but... a lot of people just don't care. Which does also impact us.
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