If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, “Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!”
Hey I have plenty of floppies still around, and my beard is not grey.
I shave.
What in the flying fuck is wrong with Jerboa for Lemmy? I can’t scroll up past this image now…
Yeah, I’ve been having trouble with my feeds not refreshing once I’ve scrolled down to the “bottom” of what has initially loaded. Been driving me bonkers. Shame, because I rather like Jerboa, but I’m probably going to start scouting for alternatives or sacrifice convenience and stick to a desktop browser.
I find myself happy enough with Jerboa. I don’t often experience bugs, but when I do, I make a point to report it to their dev team. They do listen and make a point to iron out the bugs, eventually…
You running latest version? It’s working good for me on this image.
Running version 0.0.84, so pretty recent if not the latest.
I went back to check again after more comments accumulated, and now that image isn’t causing the glitch, but another image is.
I dunno what’s up, but I messaged the Jerboa community with my findings. 🤷
Scroll through all the comments, then try scrolling back up to the top, see what if anything happens. It’s buggy here…
Ok, yeah I’m seeing the issue now, I can scroll down, but ‘infinite’ scroll back up so to speak, where is just throwing what I’m viewing back down a handful of posts etc. Hopefully an easy enough fix for them.
Someone else looked into Jerboa bug reports and found a bug ticket for this very issue as far back as Jerboa 0.0.77
https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/issues/1711
The tricky part with weird bugs like this is stumbling into a post that somehow triggers the bug. I have no clue what’s causing it, but I made sure to pass the info to the developer community.
Oh wow right, Ah well, see how they go, nice work getting the info to them!
That happens from time to time. I haven’t been able to find out why, or I’d report it. Leaving and reopening the thread fixes it.
No, that didn’t fix it. After more comments accumulated, the glitch just shifted to a different image comment. Glitch still exists, and I’ve reported and updated my findings with the Jerboa developers community.
Edit: If you care to follow, here’s my post to the Jerboa community…
Didn’t floppy disks actually exist?
That’s what Big Floppy want you to believe.
Nah
Maybe it needs to be a 5.25" floppy
Why not clay tablets?
Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
When you use old tech like that, sometimes it becomes a security feature.
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
Curious about the vehicle recycling exemption
Skeptic, clicked, confirmed. Holly shit! Japan is using floppies in 21st century
It’s why would I enjoy watching a Japanese versions of cyberpunk dystopias. They still have VCRs, crt TVs, and fax machines well into the 22nd century
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Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.
So OneDrive actually saved me a ton of time this year at work. We implemented it at the end of last year, and we had a lot of problems with it at first.
So usually something would go wrong, and it was my job to dig deep and figure out what caused it. But for the first half of this year, I could just say, “I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure it’s OneDrive,” and then I could relax and do something else.
Jesus Christ, people really do love to make a problem out of anything, as long as it has “Microsoft” on the label, eh?
when you are a computer toucher, adding an extra three or four touches every time you want to save is frustrating.
What?
If you’re using OneDrive, 99% of the time you want your documents to be saved there anyway, so this saves you time.
If you’re not using OneDrive, this doesn’t affect you at all.
If you’re using OneDrive but, for whatever reason, don’t want Word to save files there by default, it takes some 5 clicks to go back to the previous default.
People are behaving like Microsoft is sending death squads to get all their documents, it’s just stupid.
Onedrive has been known to just randomly break programs like razer synapse and plenty of other things, and also reinstalling itself for no reason. A friend had a game running at 20fps and it was a known issue that onedrive caused it. I would prefer to have things autosave without using something that is acting indistinguishable from a virus.
Onedrive has been known to just randomly break programs like razer synapse and plenty of other things
Never heard of that. The only thing I can imagine that might happen here is Synapse dropping off its config files in Documents, the file getting kicked off to the cloud (after a device switch/OS reinstall, by the user or via space-saving logic due to long time of not being used), and then Synapse trying to interact with the placeholder file. Literally nothing else could affect it.
Also, using any Razer software as an argument against other software is… brave.
A friend had a game running at 20fps and it was a known issue that onedrive caused it
Would love to read more about it because it sounds completely ridiculous. Unless the game constantly overwrites files in OneDrive sync’d folders, which would trigger a non-stop sync, I guess?
I would prefer to have things autosave without using something that is acting indistinguishable from a virus.
This sentence goes super hard if you have no clue what a virus is.
Also, using any Razer software as an argument against other software is… brave.
My mistake ill go tell my friend he’s just not allowed to use his mouse because a commentor on lemmy said it’s not his computer so he can’t run what he wants on it, especially not the OEM software that his mouse requires.
Onedrive seems to sync documents by default, which means any games that write log files there will be constantly syncing any time they append a little to the end of the file.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/m8luww/pause_one_drive_sync_while_you_play_it_completely/
True sorry I meant malware, it tries to reinstall itself and tries to make uninstalling more difficult, while also being a massive cpu hog while the user is unaware (and hasn’t opened it once).
https://windowsreport.com/onedrive-high-cpu/
Ah even better it breaks itself because of telemetry logs and then takes up massive amounts of cpu in order to do nothing because it’s in a broken state. Search onedrive high cpu usage to see how common this is, happened to me too (never opened it one time). Great software that I have had to remove from 5 different people’s computers because it was either in a broken state or they played a game that was massively slowed down by a program they had not installed, didn’t even know was installed, and they had not opened or used ever. Lucky them they got to experience it twice after onedrive reinstalled itself after an update!
My mistake ill go tell my friend he’s just not allowed to use his mouse because a commentor on lemmy said it’s not his computer so he can’t run what he wants on it, especially not the OEM software that his mouse requires.
My point is that Razer is famous for designing crap quality software. It’s probably nothing related to OneDrive, just Synapse being Synapse.
Onedrive seems to sync documents by default, which means any games that write log files there will be constantly syncing any time they append a little to the end of the file.
Games shouldn’t be writing constantly to Documents. That’s what temp/cache is for.
True sorry I meant malware, it tries to reinstall itself and tries to make uninstalling more difficult, while also being a massive cpu hog while the user is unaware (and hasn’t opened it once).
I’d love to see some tests done on this. A lot of the people complaining about Windows issues are the same people who used various “debloaters”, and these cause so many unintended issues.
Sure razer programs are super sketchy, but a convenience program I never installed should not touch ANYTHING unless I tell it to. The issue isn’t “oh razer is bad so it was probably onedrive doing something correctly and then it broke” it’s “why did I have to waste time figuring out some random program I never installed and don’t want was causing this problem?”
They are writing constantly to documents because it makes it obvious to the user where the logs are, why do you get to decide they don’t get to write there? For example openmw a huge project puts logs there. Again it’s the fact it’s a program I never installed and don’t want that I had to spend hours researching to maybe find out what was causing it.
An example of it being really buggy to get rid of
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3998214/one-drive-keeps-recreating-itself
Reinstalling itself
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/brai09/onedrive_keeps_reinstalling_itself/
About performance idk what to tell you this seems very common
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/5i46aj/onedrive_is_always_checking_for_changes_and/
https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/oiix8t/high_cpu_and_ram_without_syncing_file_what_happen/
Tons of videos on YouTube about it too.
I shouldn’t have to say, for a software I never installed or wanted, “well okay I’m not allowed to append to logs to documents, or use documents for any game files that might change often, and if I’m unlucky to have onedrive be in a bugged state or they break it with an update then I will have 30% cpu usage forever unless I fix it. And also I will have to uninstall it every 6 months which might leave my file explorer in a broken state.” If this happened with a software I WANTED and installed myself, I would still complain but probably say the convenience is worth it. But it is being forced on me and the literal only reason I know about it is from it giving me 50% cpu usage and other friends having similar problems, for something they don’t want and never wanted.
Sure razer programs are super sketchy, but a convenience program I never installed should not touch ANYTHING unless I tell it to
That’s not the point I was making.
It was: OneDrive, normally, doesn’t cause any such issues. The fact that these issues exist with specifically Synapse is more probably due to Synapse being shite, than OneDrive doing anything.
They are writing constantly to documents because it makes it obvious to the user where the logs are, why do you get to decide they don’t get to write there?
Because Documents is the user’s documents space. Temp files go in Temp, application data goes in AppData. It’s a super simple system that worked on Windows for the past 20 years. Razer doing things wrong is a problem with Razer’s products, not Microsoft’s.
For example openmw a huge project puts logs there
Then the devs of openmw should be flogged too. Everybody should fuck off from the Documents folder, because it turns into another Temp/AppData with all the crap that I didn’t put there. It’s My Documents, not “trash bin for lazy devs”.
I won’t argue against it reinstalling itself as I never had a problem with it just chugging along and giving me the 5GB of free backup space.
I won’t comment on the performance hits, because I never experienced those. I’m willing to bet the fault is on either the user or the software their using, though, because I haven’t seen a performance hit on any of my 2000-3000 managed devices. Sure, OneDrive for Business uses SharePoint, but the app works in a similar way.
I won’t comment on your last paragraph too, because it just reiterates that you missed my initial point.
I can understand the Microsoft hate, but I always chuckle at this knee-jerk reaction every time it comes up.
*Microsoft is mentioned, karate-chops the air*
Right? It’s insane!
Like with the ROG Ally. People who don’t have it call it the worst shit ever because it runs Windows. People who do have it call it amazing, because the UI is done great, the games run smooth, etc. Like, there’s zero issues with the device, it’s great for gaming, but because Microsoft is involved, so many people just want to drop it in the gutter…
I swear, if Microsoft just randomly decided that every Windows user gets one million dollars, no strings attached, people would complain…
True true
And people are correct to do so.
They’re not.
If you’re using OneDrive, 99% of the time you want your documents to be saved there anyway.
If you’re not using OneDrive, this doesn’t affect you at all.
If you’re using OneDrive but, for whatever reason, don’t want Word to save files there by default, it takes some 5 clicks to go back to the previous default.
I use it, I even pay for it. But Holy fuck it’s bad! It makes explorer freeze when right clicking sometimes, moving files is slow, I can’t create a new folder and name it at the same time because it interrupts the process, so I create new folder, it takes over, then I have to manually rename it from new folder.
Its picture viewer in the Web app freezes half of the time, actually, on the android app too.
If I didn’t get such a good deal for it, I would go somewhere else. It’s fucking trash.
It makes explorer freeze when right clicking sometimes
That’s just the beauty of the new context menu. OneDrive or not, it just freezes sometimes.
moving files is slow
Huh? Moving files happens locally, on your drive.
I can’t create a new folder and name it at the same time because it interrupts the process, so I create new folder, it takes over, then I have to manually rename it from new folder
That’s true, this bit is infuriating.
I’m still on Win10 and in general the context menu loads reasonably fast for me.
But even in WinXP if you had broken registry values it would cause the context menu to load really slowly.
Yeah, when I move files locally, on the same volume. It’s real fun watching my Explorer hang when moving files, I have a few hundred thousand files in OneDrive and however they’re indexing and tracking them is pretty fucked. And no, it’s not the disks.
I’m so done with Microsoft.
I gotta be honest, man - it seems like something’s fucked with your OS.
Moving files locally has nothing to do with OneDrive. Once you move the files within a OneDrive-synced folder, the service will just update their location info and re-sync them. It doesn’t “desync -> move -> sync”, it’s literally a local move.
Have you tried moving similar amounts of data in non-synced folders?
Yup, only happens in folders that are synced, I actually reinstalled Windows specifically because of the issues I was seeing.
I don’t know what exactly it’s doing but it annoys the shit out of me. I should probably use process Explorer or something to check what is going on but I’m too lazy.
I moved some pictures a little earlier and it did it again.
I actually reinstalled Windows specifically because of the issues I was seeing.
Did you run any “debloaters” or such after the reinstall?
The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time.
What is that supposed to represent???
Wait for it… 😏
“Drumroll please…”
Did it ever make sense?
Yes, early 90s hard drives really sounded like a drumroll.
When skeuomorphic isn’t anymore.
Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
have brains
Shoot, that’s an understatement. The Japanese people I’ve read online and met in person tended to be a whole lot more educated than the average Joe. Their education system seems pretty solid.
Does Japan not have the fervent anti intellectualism that we have in the US with our right wing? And it’s not in bed with racism to fuck public education together?
No doubt they’re somewhere,
The Japanese people I’ve read online and met in person
but I’ve never come across those people online or in person.
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Remember the cinnamon challenge? It was just like a handful of weirdos doing it and in international news, they said it was average Americans because of our underfunded education system.
Theres something about this sentiment that slightly scares my very soul.
If young people anywhere would see floppies, I’m guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They’re notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.
I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.
Two that come to mind: Deutsche Bahn still transfers the seat reservation database to the trains using diskettes. And San Francisco Muni uses 5.25 Floppies for their light rail trains.
Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
I worked with an engineering software that was developed by a Christian team, they put a cross as the Save Icon. Cuz Jesus Saves. It was a good Dad joke so I had to let it slide.
Dad joke, lil joke, ghost joke 😎 The Holy Trinity of jokes.
Back in my day we extruded our own polyester film, coated it with our own rust and cut them into discs free hand! All that for 170K of storage!
I once had what I thought was a friend, but who was definitely a teacher. He joked that he brought a floppy disk to his school and his students asked who had 3d printed a save icon.
I once had what I thought was a friend
You could start writing a book with that line.
That’s true! However, I don’t like “what” there - friend or no, he was a who, not a what. I just couldn’t write “who I thought was a friend,” though reading it now it seems okay. Ah well; I’m no novelist, so feel free to claim the quote for yourself if you’d like.
[I/O] instead?
It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.
Imagine we were dead
I wonder if you can
Society really wants humans gone, and replaced with AI girlfriends, and numans.
What the fuck is VR? Is that like brain diving?
