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20 votes
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Is OneDrive for Linux Mature Enough Yet?
I'm looking to see if anyone can speak to how life is (good, bad, or meh) with using one of the popular OneDrive clients on a common enough Linux distribution. Ok, so allow me to set the...
I'm looking to see if anyone can speak to how life is (good, bad, or meh) with using one of the popular OneDrive clients on a common enough Linux distribution.
Ok, so allow me to set the context...
- My partner uses Windows laptop, and with next year's end of life on Win10, I need to make decision to advise them on whether we get them another Windows laptop (presumably running Win11), or finally get them to take the plunge on using Linux - (a laptop running some common enough linux distro).
- I run linux as my personal daily driver on my laptop for more than a decade, and on server side having been using and dabbling with linux since about 2004. So, i will add also that i'm all bought in on the linux, libre/free and open source lifestyle.
- I'm not a fan of Windows, but not judging that others like my partner use it. By the way, my partner doesn't care about tech nor computing, they simply use applications and move on with their life. (Yes, i have politely nudged them over the years to try linux, but they have been hesitant to do so without a true need, so why rock the love boat, right?)
- My partner's computing needs are quite basic, but slightly tricky...Here is what i mean:
- They use a web browser or mobile apps for the vast majority of their compouting/app needs
- For office suite, they use desktop versions of MS Word and Excel
- Quite importanrtly, they use OneDrive to sync their files (and there are alot important files for them and our family)
So, from a computing needs perspective, that's pretty much it. For every other function and need (e.g. email, productivity, etc.), they simply use browser or mobile apps as noted above.
You might be thinking, well, move them to linux, and if they like Microsoft, then use the Word or Excel browser app, right? Well, they LOATH having to use the browser or mobile versions of Microsoft Office. Being of a certain age, they might be ok with LibreOffice, since it mimics close enough to desktop versions of Word, Excel desktop apps...So, I think the desktop and office suite are less of a problem to find an alternative if needed...
But, OneDrive, yeah, this is the one app that they won't let go. Not because they love Microsoft (they could careless about the company), but because they have a good trust and experience of its functions to date on Windows. Onedrive has really empowered their workflow. That is, because they jump from browser to mobile app often through their day, etc....the feature of having a file easily and reliably sync (via onedrive) between devices is probably the most important need that they have.Now, before anyone says, well try "NextCloud"...yeah, been there and done that. Nextcloud works wonderfully for me (has for years)...but it does not conform exactly to my partner's workflow. I've tried Collabera, but could never get it to work reliably enough. I want to state again, i am a strong, emphatic open source advocate...But if my partner can't get their work done without me constantly diagnosing and fixing things....then its not proper solution for them.
So, while i have a solid linux or open source option for all of their other needs, Onedrive is the challenge here. So, can anyone advise, how things are with onedrive clients on linux? Any particular client that is worth me looking into? What about a specific linux distro that, maybe possibly works best with a particular onedrive linux client? I should add that my partner is willing to pay for file synching and does NOT want to have me self-host things for this single function since they don't want to have me kill myself in supporting it. So, if there is a valid alternative to onedrive that is awesome on linux, and that they can pay a company to reliably host, that is welcome as well.
Or, should i simply advise them to stick to Windows through EOL, get them set on Win11 along with native Onedrive, and move on with our lives?
I'm thankful for anyone's recommendations and advice. Cheers!
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Float Self-Tagging
5 votes -
November 2024 Backlog Burner: Week 4 Discussion
Week 4 has begun! Post your current bingo cards. Continue updating us on your games! Quick links: Backlog Bingo Site Week 1 Discussion and Event Guidelines Week 2 Discussion Week 3 Discussion Week...
Week 4 has begun!
Post your current bingo cards.
Continue updating us on your games!Quick links:
Week 3 Recap
12 participants played 12 bingo cards and moved 34 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.- 4 people played Flow bingo cards
- 8 people played Flux bingo cards
Thus far, a total of 87 games have been played for the November 2024 Backlog Burner.
Week 3 Game List:
- Ariel_Knight’s Never Yield
- BioShock 2 Remastered
- Call of the Sea
- Cave Story+
- Cavity Busters
- Celeste
- Cloud Gardens
- Convoy
- Eigengrau
- FPS Chess
- Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
- Golf Club Nostalgia
- Hades
- Half-Life 2: VR Mod
- Lost in Blue
- Mining Mechs
- No Man’s Sky
- Paradise Killer
- Party Hard
- PictoQuest
- Portal 2
- Portal with RTX
- Praey for the Gods
- Prey
- Project Borealis: Prologue
- Project Warlock II
- Pumpkin Jack
- Slant
- Subnautica
- The Falconeer
- The Gardens Between
- Victoria 3
- Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
- Warpips
Week 2 Recap
14 participants played 13 bingo cards and moved 36 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.- 6 people played Flow bingo cards
- 7 people played Flux bingo cards
- 1 person played free choice
Thus far, a total of 53 games have been played for the November 2024 Backlog Burner.
Week 2 Game List:
- A Dance of Fire and Ice
- ActRaiser
- Affordable Space Adventures
- Anomaly: Warzone Earth
- CAYNE
- Celeste 64: Fragments of the Mountain
- Control
- Cult of the Lamb
- Dark Future: Blood Red States
- DarkStar One
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
- Journey to the Savage Planet
- Lethal Company
- Mandragora (demo)
- Monster Hunter Wilds (beta)
- Moonring
- Odysseus Kosmos and his Robot Quest (and Let's Play video by u/JCPhoenix)
- Otherskin (demo)
- Part Time UFO
- Pikmin 4
- Pokémon Kanto Expansion Pak
- REMNANT II
- Rumu
- Secrets of Grindea
- Snow Moto Racing Freedom
- Super Mario Eclipse
- Super Mario Maker 2
- Super Mega Baseball: Extra Innings
- Tacoma
- TaleSpire
- That Which Gave Chase
- The Battle of Polytopia (and Let's Play video by u/JCPhoenix))
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
- Wilderless
- Yes, Your Grace\
Week 1 Recap
11 participants played 10 bingo cards and moved 17 games out of their backlogs!
There were 0 bingo wins.- 6 people played Flow bingo cards
- 4 people played Flux bingo cards
- 1 person played free choice
Game list:
17 votes -
What kind of USB hub am I looking for?
So I bought this caldigit hub along with this USB hub. I originally had the Aceele connect to my computer through the CalDigit Hub, but when I connected my keyboard to my Aceele, I noticed that...
So I bought this caldigit hub along with this USB hub.
I originally had the Aceele connect to my computer through the CalDigit Hub, but when I connected my keyboard to my Aceele, I noticed that when I hit
F11
, the boot menu doesn't get activated.I connected my keyboard to the caldigit hub directly though and was able to pull up the boot menu just fine.
Then I connect my keyboard to the Aceele hub and then connected that directly to my computer and it still was not able to connect my keyboard to the computer pre-OS boot. So clearly Aceele waits till the OS is actually up before it can connect (I think?)
However, I don't know what tech specs to look for in a hub that ensure that anything I connect to it will be detected pre OS-boot. I am looking for a hub that specifically plugs into a USB-C port, has 4 USB-A ports and is USB 3.2 gen with 10 gbps. Is that possible?
8 votes -
Borknagar – Moon (2024)
8 votes -
Wolfheart – Ancient Cold (2024)
8 votes -
Sami Pajari has been announced, alongside Kalle Rovanperä, Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta, as a full-time Toyota driver in 2025
3 votes -
Stellar Blade: The fake outrage
24 votes -
La Salle Causeway lift bridge
7 votes -
“Solidarity is the only thing that can save us”: An interview with Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix
10 votes -
The price America paid for its first big immigration crackdown
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What are your routines, tactics and strategies while job hunting? Going through a career transition.
I am at the end of a phase of my life in which for many years, finding contract work was as simple as contacting 5 or 6 people and letting them know I was available. This work is no longer tenable...
I am at the end of a phase of my life in which for many years, finding contract work was as simple as contacting 5 or 6 people and letting them know I was available. This work is no longer tenable for me and I am attempting a career transition.
Edit: I wasn't sure whether to mention, but over the last 10 years I have come to suspect that I have undiagnosed ADHD. Any advice from that perspective would be greatly appreciated.
Asking people with more recent experience than me, what methods do you use to job hunt? How do you manage your time while unemployed? If you are willing, would you please share advice?
19 votes -
Evergrey – Say (2024)
3 votes -
Sony is reportedly working on a PS5 portable
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Had an amazing trip to New Mexico. Has anyone else been? What would you suggest for a return trip?
We stayed in Albuquerque and Taos. I was surprised and pleased to learn that petroglyphs national monument has free admission. The Pueblo cultural center in Albuquerque is a great resource. If you...
We stayed in Albuquerque and Taos.
I was surprised and pleased to learn that petroglyphs national monument has free admission. The Pueblo cultural center in Albuquerque is a great resource. If you plan to visit, definitely check their website to see what is scheduled.
We visited and toured Taos Pueblo. Each Pueblo has different craft and art traditional styles. The museums and art galleries in Taos were cool.
New Mexico is beautiful and has a unique cultural identity within the US. It's a poor state but with a high percentage of scientists, artists, old Spanish American families and native Americans.
I liked it well enough to plan for a return trip.
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Tildes Video Thread
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you. It...
Find yourself watching tons of great videos on [insert chosen video sharing platform], but also find yourself reluctant to flood the Tildes front page with them? Then this thread is for you.
It could be one quirky video that you feel deserves some eyeballs on it, or perhaps you've got a curated list of videos that you'd love to talk us through...
Share some of the best video content you've watched this past week/fortnight with us!
8 votes -
Bungie uncovers an issue in their distribution of random weapon perks in Destiny 2, detailed and interesting write up of the fix
35 votes -
Deno v. Oracle: Canceling the JavaScript trademark
45 votes -
1891 New Orleans lynchings
7 votes -
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
38 votes -
Secret Level | Teaser trailer
15 votes -
Car maintenance/replacement advice
I have a 2014 CRV, it loses oil horribly and I'm going to have to check it a couple times a week or risk my engine. The mechanic was hesitant to even help me limp it along and said basically...
I have a 2014 CRV, it loses oil horribly and I'm going to have to check it a couple times a week or risk my engine. The mechanic was hesitant to even help me limp it along and said basically there's no fix besides replacing the engine. He put 3 quarts in that day. I didn't have a warning it was low other than the loud start.
I'm trying to decide if it's worth continuing maintenance on this car or worth trading in now while the engine is still kicking (and switching to an electric used car probably) or nursing this along for another year or so. We have a car loan on a wheelchair van we're trying to refinance which means I'll be looking at cars that are about equivalent in value to the CRV.
Thoughts? Advice? Besides keeping oil in my car because I didn't know it was this bad. Ó╭╮Ò
19 votes -
Sohla and Ham make Thanksgiving dinner with SPAM | Mystery Menu
4 votes -
Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users’ piracy, in $1 billion Sony v. Cox case
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How do you learn to recognize your own emotions?
I'm a pretty introspective person. I grew up with an emotionally abusive parent, struggled with my mental health from teenagerhood, and been to more therapy than I can remember since the time of...
I'm a pretty introspective person. I grew up with an emotionally abusive parent, struggled with my mental health from teenagerhood, and been to more therapy than I can remember since the time of my parents' divorce when I was eight. My siblings and I have done a lot of deconstructing over the years to figure out what the heck happened to us (the abuse was pretty insidious and, of course, we normalized it) and how it affected us internally. I'm also most likely autistic and have always struggled to socialize correctly, which led to a LOT of observation and imitation that was both conscious and unconscious.
Despite all this practice at introspection though, in the past few years, I've come to realize I am wildly out of touch with my own emotions. I am tempted to blame much of this on the fact that I was always collecting social "scripts" to follow, so that I could react appropriately to jokes, or good/bad news, or whatever. If you're acting, you don't actually need to know how you feel. And if you feel something different from standard, it's irrelevant because it's "wrong" to feel that way, so you ignore it. So it took me a long time to realize that my display for other people was actually pretty disconnected from whether I was actually feeling anything. I don't feel it was dishonest, though, because I still would have wanted to show sympathy, excitement, etc. for the people I care about. It just takes me so long to process things that I wouldn't have been able to do it within the same conversation if I didn't have a ready script.
I know that some autistic people experience alexithymia/emotional blindness, but it doesn't look terribly well understood. I know I should probably get back on the therapy horse, for a number of reasons including this one, but I'm pretty leery. I never felt like it helped me much. (Although most of it, at the time, was to help me with "depression". Which I certainly had, but there was no understanding from either my end or theirs that the cause was likely rooted in ADHD/autism.) And I did try to start up again last year; I found a psychologist who specialized in ADHD and autism, and although she seemed understanding at first, I felt like I couldn't establish any clear communication and we just kept talking past each other. At this time, I super don't have the energy to keep trying new therapists, and waste weeks or months on each one before I figure out we won't click.
So I ask: have any of you folks ever dealt with emotional blindness? If so, how have you learned to identify your emotions? Do you keep a feelings journal, and how do you even know what to put in at first? Any advice is welcome!
45 votes -
Your boss is probably spying on you: New data on workplace surveillance
38 votes -
Making a fake movie to understand Hollywood’s shady accounting
5 votes -
Need a little help with Wyze bulbs and automation
I've been doing some research to try and find a way to turn a Wyze bulb on and off with a button on the wall, or cheap switch, but I'm struggling. Situation: I have a Wyze bulb that I have been...
I've been doing some research to try and find a way to turn a Wyze bulb on and off with a button on the wall, or cheap switch, but I'm struggling.
Situation: I have a Wyze bulb that I have been turning on/off with voice for a couple years. It's not something I want to be on a schedule. I just want to turn it on with a switch/button. I have switched outlet in the room, but the lamp is on the other side of the room from the outlet. The switched outlet has a neutral wire but it's being used at the end of the run of the circuit (14/3 from panel going to outlet, and the from the outlet to the switch with 14/3). So essentially I cannot use a cheap Wyze switch or other smart switches to replace the current standard switch.
I have heard of some smart switches that don't need a neutral but I have not found any. I also wanted to see if I could get a simple battery stick on button to just trigger an automation to turn the bulb on. However I have not found anything that seems to work with Wyze or the Google Home app. However I'm probably just missing something.
Any advice would be appreciated!
6 votes -
World’s oldest known man dies aged 112 in Merseyside
22 votes -
In Northeast D.C., a rancorous post-election fight erupts — over bike lanes
15 votes -
Saint Clara – Disturbing The Peace (2024)
3 votes -
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5
7 votes -
Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is giving away $300 million to improve cybersecurity infrastructure
22 votes -
Lilo & Stitch | Official teaser
15 votes -
Coffee prices surge to highest since 1997 on supply fears
38 votes -
Max, Hulu, and Paramount Plus are all heavily discounted for Black Friday
8 votes -
Dowding: Man behind 'The Few' | Great British Battle Commanders
3 votes -
What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
4 votes -
Kyūshū (November) Basho discussion
For the first time in a long while I was able to follow along with a basho while it happened and only finish it a day late. What was everyone's thoughts for this basho? Favorite storyline? Did...
For the first time in a long while I was able to follow along with a basho while it happened and only finish it a day late.
What was everyone's thoughts for this basho?
Favorite storyline?
Did anyone do poorly that you thought would do well and vice versa?6 votes -
Former Aston Villa and Sweden defender Olof Mellberg has been named as St. Louis City SC head coach
6 votes -
The Texas OB-GYN exodus – Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state
36 votes -
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W on sale now at $7
19 votes -
Tildes Minecraft Survival Weekly
New Thread Server host: tildes.nore.gg (Running Java 1.21.1) Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html Tildes website extension (shows online status &...
New Thread
Server host:
tildes.nore.gg
(Running Java 1.21.1)
Dynmap: https://tildes.nore.gg
Playtime Tracker: https://tildes.nore.gg/playtimes.html
Tildes website extension (shows online status & location): Firefox (Desktop and Android) - Chrome
Verification site: https://verify.tildes.nore.gg
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/TildesMCPlugins and Data Packs
Data Packs:- Terralith - Overworld terrain upgrade
- Nullscape - End terrain upgrade
- Armor Statues [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Bat Membranes [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Cauldron Concrete [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Husks Drop Sand [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Mini Blocks [Vanilla Tweaks]
- More Mob Heads [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Player Head Drops [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Silence Mobs [Vanilla Tweaks]
- Wandering Trades [Vanilla Tweaks]
Plugins:
- Clickable Links - Makes http URLs in chat clickable (only for registered players)
- CoreProtect - Records all block/container/mob changes (Anyone can look up changes with
/co inspect
) - Dynmap - Adds a live web map
- EasyArmorStands - GUI for editing armor stands
- Hexnicks - Enables Tildes usernames to be displayed
- LuckPerms - Locks down unregistered users
- Nerfstick - Allows survival use of the
minecraft:debug_stick
item (requires admin to spawn in) - Rapid Leaf Decay - Increases the speed of leaf decay by 10x
- WorldEdit - Used for occasional admin stuff
- WorldGuard - Prevents unregistered users from changing anything in the world
The server operates on a soft whitelist. Anyone can log in and walk around, but you need a Tildes account to gain build access.
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17 votes -
Amazon workers in twenty countries to protest or strike on Black Friday November 29
36 votes -
It was once America’s favorite cake. Why is it now impossible to bake?
72 votes -
TV Tuesdays Free Talk
Warning: this post may contain spoilers
Have you watched any TV shows recently you want to discuss? Any shows you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
4 votes -
Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (November 2024)
This is a monthly thread for those who need it. Vent, share your experiences, ask for advice, talk about how you are doing. Let's make this a compassionate space for all who may need one.
34 votes -
What happened to passenger hovercraft?
14 votes -
Greenland is about to open up to adventure-seeking visitors – three new airports will bring profound change
6 votes