u/Critical-Personality — reddlx

The OneDriveYouToNuts Experience - Part 3 - Windows

This is Part 3 (Post #3) of my rant about trying to exit Microslop.

Like I said - I was doing the "download the data from cloud to your Windows PC" exercise to build humility into my character. This involved "Windows". I have used every Windows version from Windows 95 (and been on Linux since Ubuntu 5.04 got out). While I did hate on Windows Me, Windows 8 and Windows Vista, I absolutely adore them over this garbage of Windows 11!

Microsoft hires top talent who do not shy away from hard work. And it shows. Because it must have taken tremendous amount of hard work to screw Windows 10 into Windows 11. This is shitty shit. If a shit-processing-factory threw out waste, Windows 11 would be the result! Here are a few things:

Windows 11 absolutely crawls on a 2 core processor (I also created a VM to enable "parallel downloads" on a Linux box that I have).
Opening File Explorer now can take up to 10 seconds to open on a bad time (while not using the processor for anything useful).
Updates and reboots without consent. If Windows is updating/downloading updates, you can't pause the updates (so that this setting gets applied after the current set?) (Screenshot attached)
You cannot add a new "local account" from settings page either. (screenshot).
Windows Sign-up for a new account is also broken on the setup page becasue it never sent the OTP for creating a new account either.
The "This PC" sometimes shows "this folder is empty" box. That gave me a "Windows got corrupted" feel.
I absolutely, positively DO NOT NEED Copilot. At least not at 5 different places on the same screen. This is madness!
It (laptop) randomly froze during reboots 3 times in the past 1 week (yes, I am still downloading). The machine works flawless with Debian tho.

Whoever is taking care of these things is some serious Vibe Coder. I always considered Windows at least a little bit inferior to BSDs and Linux (and mac) because to me it was always hard to work around with. But this is a new low even in the WIndows family of Operating Systems.

I can't stand it anymore. But guess what? I, me, myself am the idiot who gave these total useless hopeless people my hard earned money for a full decade. So shame on me.

If you ever, ever feel like getting into Windows and Microsoft suite of products, especially subscription - don't. Just don't. That's all I can say. Google Drive never gave me this much problem. You wanna zip a shit ton of data? Or you wann download at 500 MBit/s? Not a blip. It works as expected. The old, reliable boring way. I (nor you) need a lesson in humility and patience drilled down in your head by microsoft.

The last 200-300 GB of data is downloading. I hope to change my cloud service provider after this (if I need one). No Microslop for me from now on.

u/Critical-Personality — 4 days ago

▲ 6 r/FuckMicrosoft

The OneDriveYouToNuts Experience

If I start writing the entire experience of what I am about to express, no one, not one of you will read it. Mods will ban it and I will be kicked out because it will be maybe 1000s of words long and sound like an AI lost its guardrails and fell into swear-valley. So I am gonna break it and post it here. One after another. This will probably be a solid set of reasons of how not to lose your hairs with MircroSlop. This is, post #1.

TLDR; there are so many ways Microslow will xxck you. Don't ever "depend" on them.

I have been a paying Microsoft365 customer since 11 years now (it was just called an "Office" plan back then). Every year it would frustrate me a bit. But I kept it because well, I needed backup and MS365 was better priced than Google or Dropbox or any other. However, I discovered r/immich about 8 months back and have been using it for more than 6 months and am happy. Photos and Videos are most of what takes up that 4~ish TB of online storage my family had accumulated in the last decade. After I got the notification from Microsoft that my subscription will be renewed in a month, I decided to get rid of the MS365 subscription. But I had a 5 TB HDD which I thought I would backup (or "back down") the online data into before I sort, filter and delete stuff. So I decided to download it all. The actual horror starts here.

I am not a Windows lover but I do have it on an older Laptop (Late 2013, MBP - 16 GB RAM). But since Linux and macOS are my main OSes, I thought "hey, let's just download the 'zip files' from OneDrive Web directly into the HDD - it will save about 4 TB of SSD thrashing". Little did I know - OneDrive can't zip anything for its own good. I went to OneDrive 'Photos' and tried backing up a month worth of photos (planned to download them month-wise). Nope. Not possible. I said to myself "Maybe that's because I have selected the old ones. Let me start from the recent ones." Selected the April 2026 pictures. Tried downloading the Zip. It does not work. ANd before you ask - I was using the 'Microsoft Recommended Edge browser" for the task.

After losing about 6 more hairs from my semi-bald head, I decided to use "OneDrive App on Windows" on my Windows Laptop. Sound good, eh? Now imagine that you have about 100 GB free on that laptop and you have more than 900 GBs to download - so you would download the folders, one by one, right? Sounds good in theory. But if you have used with OneDrive, you would know that it gives absolute shitty speeds. If you are syncing/downloading 6 files in parallel, it might make you a bit happy but individual file downloads (and I have multiple videos which are more than 10 GB in size) are terribly slow.

On top of that, OneDrive app can randomly restart, hang, lose track of sync state and I had to "sign-out, clear-cache, sign-back in, retry that entire thing again, use WinDirStat to find where the hidden cache was, then delete that and restart the computer" multiple times.

The download speeds can range from 150 Mbps to 100Kbps (yes Kbps) and if you pause/resume or connect/disconnect, it can jump up from the base to top, or from top to base depending on your luck. SO it is wildl unpredictable as well. I know, there are engineering challenges of having this big a data store behave really well on the bandwidth front. But guys, at least you could make the app a bit more stable.

The attached figure shows a "what the hell is happening" state (one of many) - a file is being shown as "sync pending" after OneDrive just restarted. The bottom icon hover indicates that all pending operations are done and the main window says it is "looking for changes" (which never changed to "downloading" and I had to reset the entire thing).

And this is just about OneDrive part of the whole experience. I shall come with even greater facts next time. And yes, Fuck Microslop.

Post #2 is here. It's how Microslop accounts are designed to screw you!

u/Critical-Personality — 4 days ago

▲ 52 r/ZedEditor

Me YAAP(Yet Another Appreciation Post)ing about Zed

I mostly program in Go. And my Goland subscription will end in a month. So I was looking for an alternative. I have been using Zed since it was in version 0.110 or something. So I tried VS Code and Zed (since both are free).

While the number of resources for VS Code are enormous, AI was able to help me configure Zed properly as well. And man am I impressed! My projects, fully loaded, often take about 6-8 GB of RAM with Goland. VS Code with all its bells and whistles (and the rest of the orchestra) was getting slower though it was consuming only 4-5 GB of RAM combined with gopls.

Zed was a surprise. Gopls at about 250 MB of memory. Zed at just under 400 (380'ish) and things were working fine. That is like 6x better than VS code and about 8-10x better than Goland! And it was snappy to an extent that I did not expect it to be with my project. It reminded me of Sublime text and neovim.

Also, the way tasks, settings and keymaps with and without VIM mode are supported, I loved it. The documentation is clear and helpful and detailed just enough. It's a really well done piece of software.

Just wanted to say thanks to the Zed team. I don't have a job right now but once I get a new one (or my project catches the traction I hope to get), I will probably buy a subscription for a few months just to support it.

Thanks again for making it and keeping it free for normal use.

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u/Critical-Personality — 11 days ago

▲ 5 r/ranchi

You are talking to an officer!

So this happened recently. I was visiting a hospital (one of the reputed ones). All of us patients were waiting in the waiting area for our turn with the doctor (appointment). There was a couple waiting in the lobby as well. Another lady in her 60's accompanied by another woman who would be in 30's (I think she was the daughter) wants to sit by the side of the couple because a seat was empty. The man just denied. Said his "bodyguard" needed to sit down.

The bodyguard gets signaled "sit here". The bodyguard goes and sits. The women are not happy with the treatment. The ladies did get a seat at a different place (a couple people had just got up from seats) but the younger lady among the two was still rattled and was saying (not shouting) things like 'people can have basic manner'. Normal for such situations, I would say. I was looking at the phone. People got a bit "silent" and were watching a drama unfold. It was hardly 20 seconds that I looked at my phone to respond to a message. The matter escalated quickly in those 20 seconds.

The ladies and couple are now exchanging angry but civilized words (something like "you don't have manners" and "YOU don't have manners either...you think you are the world's most mannered person" sorta exchange). The man from the couple gets himself involved. Things escalate further. The person managing the floor is trying to calm both parties down.

My turn came in, I went to the doctor chamber. Doctor orders the assistant nurse to close the door because the noise was pretty high. Things quiet down outside. As I come out, I see both parties standing up and coming towards each other, silently. I think the old lady called her son or someone. He was telling the couple something along the lines of "if you see that an elder lady is waiting, why can't you have the courtesy of letting her sit when the seat was empty? Surely the tall and strong bodyguard can stand for some time".

The couple got calm - only in my expectations. Actually, the scene exploded. The couple started shouting at the ladies and the man now. The man (in that couple) said that the lady is a "public prosecutor" (I don't know what that means in exact terms, I am not a law student). I heard the words "You are talking to an officer. I am XYZ of Ranchi". (As XYZ got said, I was arranging my papers and prescription so I didn't hear it properly). They were shouting pretty hard.

I won't comment on who was at fault - the ladies who got their seat at another place or the so called public servants who could have allowed an elderly lady to sit on a chair in a public place rather than asking the bodyguard to sit there.

I am close to the airport rn. But I can't shake it off. Maybe going out of the city will.

PS: I have omitted some details for the sake of keeping it short and maybe keeping myself safe. I did not record a video (and no one there did for the same reason, perhaps).

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u/Critical-Personality — 11 days ago