not letting me save files to my own hard drive is at least as grievous a violation of my fundamental human rights as, let's say, the third amendment - ThreadSky

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com • 1 day ago

not letting me save files to my own hard drive is at least as grievous a violation of my fundamental human rights as, let's say, the third amendment

Reposted from Drew Harwell

A version of Microsoft Word with banner ads and surprise video pop-ups that doesn't let you *save files to your computer*. Just the thought of this is painful www.theverge.com/news/618278/...

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coolhandvuk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Real LibreOffice hours

ouisequitur.bsky.social•1 day ago

but i want to QUARTER these FILES in my own HOME

benjayingly.com•1 day ago

What could this possibly offer that Google Docs doesn’t already have in a much less obnoxious way?

jonathanpierce.bsky.social•1 day ago

like if the government wanted to quarter some hot young soldiers I wouldn’t complain… we coud play mario kart

miniocre.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The founding fathers never met an MBA business sicko. If they did, the constitution would have probably been a few pages longer.

fasscass.bsky.social•5 hours ago

*your* hard drive? you don't own the Hard Drive®'s Membership Subscription you Commie™, that's a service!

alienkinkvr.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm going to be so annoying right now and apologize in advance but I just made the switch to Linux for my new machine and am quite pleased.

No Copilot, No Apple AI. No baked in ads.

shuchancellor.online•1 day ago

Premium evil, no words for this

oreo101012.bsky.social•1 day ago

insane. even google docs lets you DOWNLOAD FILES

generalgoodsman.bsky.social•1 day ago

thats pretty fundamental

themadtinker.bsky.social•23 hours ago

why would anyone not use VScode instead

klezmerstyle.bsky.social•1 day ago

time to go back to vi

thezinger.bsky.social•22 hours ago

📌

dsmag.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Never had a chromebook?

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•21 hours ago

god no, they are horrible

jhunter.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm still mad that autosave is only available if you use their cloud thing

r7plays.bsky.social•17 hours ago

that is beyond insane, can't save on my own hard drive!?
I would immediately reinstall open office, it's perfectly usable and doesn't do weird annoying shit or try to advertise garbage to me

jfc I cannot wait for steam's OS to come out, I hope it's good.

noahms456.bsky.social•1 day ago

libreoffice doesn’t pull this kind of shit as far as I know ;)

noahms456.bsky.social•1 day ago

No I don’t want to put my fucking files in the cloud motherfucker I want to keep it on my hard drive in my house that I own now uninstall OneDrive you bastards

inanothercountry.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does it have the same functionality as microsoft office? What features is it lacking?

noahms456.bsky.social•23 hours ago

My last copy of Office is 2003, so I’m not real clear on what recent versions have… libreoffice has everything i need - mainly an editor and sometimes a spreadsheet. No irritating subscription model for one thing

inanothercountry.bsky.social•1 day ago

*if any, of course

olivekosheluk.bsky.social•1 day ago

Microsoft trying their hardest to make me switch permanently to linux

porchcryptid.bsky.social•1 day ago

The perfectly normal corporate urge to force advertisements into every functioning program.

ricecooka.bsky.social•22 hours ago

So can you save to OneDrive, then download from OneDrive? It's all so stupid either way.

mmathog.bsky.social•1 day ago

That OS has been saying "it's not your computer" for years but wow this takes it to a whole new level.

anthrodiva.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can you email it to yourself and then save? Can you turn it into a pdf, email it, then convert it?

Do an end run around MSFT

dangillotte.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Just experienced this this week- an AD sitting in the top of my inbox, looking like an email but actually an ad that opens a new tab in my browser without recourse. Heinous, utterly.

dashwallkick.bsky.social•1 day ago

Microsoft's whole appeal is not being Apple and every day they are *absolutely desperate* to rip that to pieces.

porkrocket.bsky.social•1 day ago

Windows 11 is just a bad MAC OS.

jim85.bsky.social•23 hours ago

It’s really gone back and forth over the years. Microsoft is trying real hard now though

endmetothemoon.bsky.social•1 day ago

Still running cracked Office suite on my Windows 7 laptop

I will ride that shit into the grave

williedustice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Things have gotten so dumb. Didn't Windows just used to have these office applications built in because that was the whole point? You had a home computer so you didn't need separate devices or kinds of paper for writing, spreadsheets or presentations? That's why you had a computer!

trav.ing•1 day ago

I bought a new computer last Black Friday and Windows 11's uncompromising insistence that you use OneDrive radicalized me into installing linux

therealprocyon.bsky.social•1 day ago

I mean, you can still obtain them from the cloud

therealprocyon.bsky.social•1 day ago

They clearly didn’t think this one through, people will make it possible lol

lisadtrice.bsky.social•1 day ago

Wait. Whut? I *only* save files to my computer. Yeah, that's right, I don't save files to the cloud. #oldschool

buffalocia.bsky.social•1 day ago

Another example of tech companies forcibly preventing their users from learning how their own machines work and why we have kids who lock up upon being confronted with Windows Explorer windows

lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com•1 day ago

they seek to control and gate-keep the fundamental magics of the universe. we must not let them succeed!!

unclecaviar.bsky.social•1 day ago

No graphics until you can show proficiency with a terminal

slanderous.bsky.social•1 day ago

autoexec.bat is back, baby

kgbenefits.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Word stopped working on my desktop bc some update broke its ability to connect to the internet (every other microsoft service working). Tried fixes for an hour, spent an hour trying to get customer service to issue me a key (physical copy in storage). Ended up having to pirate software I paid for.

bsey.bsky.social•7 hours ago

Piracy it is.

thejackeroo.bsky.social•1 day ago

Back to my Smith Corona I guess.

inanothercountry.bsky.social•1 day ago

Does anyone know of open source word processors that come close to word? Ive been using google docs for years now but starting to think an alternative might be necessary