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Marvy_a commented on Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission neowin.net/news/windows-1... · Posted by u/josephcsible

suby · 2 years ago

This happened to me. I was wondering why my internet speeds were slow when I discovered that Microsoft was in the process of uploading my users directory, they had already uploaded almost two gigs when I realized. They also changed the path to these directories to something like C:\Users\name\OneDrive\Desktop\. Another poster in this thread claimed it's easy to reverse -- I disagree, it's a pain in the ass to track down the setting, and I shouldn't have to do this. When I did, it gave me an error for one of the directories and refuses to revert (documents?).

I don't like leaving negative or hyperbolic comments on HN, but this was enraging and unacceptable to me. It's hard to convey without coming off as unhinged. I only ever boot into Windows nowadays when I need to compile and test a Windows build of software. I understand Microsoft has built up good will through efforts like VS Code, but it's all undone because of things like this. I avoid MS products, they cannot be trusted.

Marvy_a · 2 years ago

I had this happen about a year ago. OneDrive changed the default path for the Documents folder to the one you mentioned above, but I only noticed it when I wasn't able to find some files in the Documents folder. It turned out that some files were being saved to the default path C:\Users\username\Documents. So I tried to move the Documents folder from the directory made by OneDrive back to the default one, but it gave me an error. Then I tried to fix it in the registry, but there were quite a lot of different entries for the default path, and I wasn't able to figure out which one I should change or remove. In the end, I had to reinstall Windows. Now each time I install Windows on any PC, the first thing I do is remove OneDrive.

Unfortunately, this problem somehow happened again on my current Windows installation. Maybe I forgot to remove OneDrive this time, or it was automatically reinstalled during some update.

Marvy_a commented on AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B toonk.io/aws-ipv4-estate-... · Posted by u/atyvr

nfRfqX5n · 2 years ago

Extremely surprised that I could load that massive json list of ips on my phone instantly

Marvy_a · 2 years ago

Out of interest, I opened link with this json file and scrolled till the end of it on a very cheap Android tablet from 2012 with Allwinner A10 (One 1GHz core) and 512mb of RAM, using lightweight Via browser without much trouble.

Marvy_a commented on Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates blog.google/outreach-init... · Posted by u/twapi

ChrisLTD · 3 years ago

What laptops are we seriously expecting to last more than 10 years? I wouldn't expect that from a MacBook Pro or a Thinkpad, let alone a $300 Chromebook.

Marvy_a · 3 years ago

My father had been using a laptop he got in 2011 (I5-2410m) until a few months ago when I bought him a mini PC with an Intel N95, he didn't even want to switch because for the most part everything worked pretty well and why wouldn't it? The i5-2410m is faster than the Celeron N4020, which is commonly found in many ChromeBooks and budget laptops today, and the i5-2410m wasn't even the best mobile processor back then. Many cheap laptops today are also limited to a soldered-on 4GB of RAM, but most older laptops can be upgraded to 8GB.

I have several other laptops from 2011 which are even weaker (One with I5-560M (upgraded from 380M for 6$) and other with I3-2310M) and they are also mostly fine for web browsing and office, and capable of playing 1080p YouTube video even without hardware acceleration (they don't have VP9 decoding),with H264ify CPU usage drops to 30-40 percents.

With progress in semiconductors slowing down i would expect laptops to last even longer, but with manufactures soldering down RAM and sometimes even SSD maybe that won't be the case. Cause if i wouldn't be able to replaces HHD with SSD and upgrade RAM on these old laptops they would be garbage long time ago.

Marvy_a commented on Fairphone 5 shop.fairphone.com/fairph... · Posted by u/lars_francke

pelagicAustral · 3 years ago

I agree. 700 is steep... I pay just about as much as you do for phone, in fact I paid £290 for my current one.

Marvy_a · 3 years ago

I paid 390 USD (excluding taxes) in 2019 for my phone - Xiaomi Mi9T Pro, I'm from relatively poor country, so i personally wouldn't pay 700 for a phone, it's a pretty high price for me. What is more interesting actually, is that Fairphone 5's SOC have the same performance as Snapdragon 855 in my at this point 4 years old phone, which is also cheaper. Accoring to GsmArena performance of Qualcomm QCM 6490 used in Fairphone 5 comparable to the Snapdragon 778G which has the same score in GeekBench 5 and Antutu 9 as Snapdragon 855 [1]. At least it has 2 more GB of RAM (my phone has 6)

Maybe it's a bit sad that there isn't that much progress lately (compared to early to mid 2010s), but it also means that i will be able to continue to use my phone for several more years without much problems (Except for Android updates, but I already have custom ROM installed).

[1] https://nanoreview.net/en/soc-compare/qualcomm-snapdragon-85...

Marvy_a commented on Google Street View returns to Germany after 10 Years androidpolice.com/google-... · Posted by u/gattilorenz

ido · 3 years ago

Anecdotally, in Berlin almost all street view pics are from 2008. It's actually kinda nice to take a tour of the past that way sometimes!

Marvy_a · 3 years ago

Google Maps has a function to view older panoramas - "See more dates" button at the top left.

Marvy_a commented on Ask HN: Does anybody not use an adblocker? · Posted by u/AdamN

aserafini · 3 years ago

I’m just not finding that ads suck that much. Things like mandatory cookie dialog boxes annoy me a lot more.

Marvy_a · 3 years ago

You can install extension like "I don't care about cookies". AdBlock I'm using has this as a build in feature you can enable.

Marvy_a commented on Ask HN: Does anybody not use an adblocker? · Posted by u/AdamN

dyingkneepad · 3 years ago

My wife doesn't, simply because Android Chrome doesn't support one and she won't move to Firefox because it doesn't have an extension to translate pages with Google Translate like Chrome does :(

Marvy_a · 3 years ago

Get DNS service with ad blocking, like NextDNS. It's pretty easy to set up, I'm using it on my Android phone and iPad. It's free for up to 300,000 queries per month (I've never exceeded this limit, for reference I made 100,000 queries on my phone this month). It also has a lot of configurability (You can select specific blocklists, whitelist sites and etc.). It's not as good as a dedicated AdBlocker like UBlock Origin , it won't be able to block YouTube ads for example, but it's far better than nothing.