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minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up51arrow-down1·2 months agoYou know how many times I’ve had to tell someone that document they created and have been working on for days was never saved even once and can’t really be recovered?
minus-squareKomodo Rodeo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·2 months agoLemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22·2 months ago$1000/hr billing rates yes. Maybe 10 ppl/year.
minus-squaredindonmasker@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 months agoI really hope they are incredibly good at a very specific thing that has nothing to do with where tf are their files.
minus-squareErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months agoPresumably it’s selling snake oil and convincing people to trust them?
minus-squaremyplacedk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoI remember this. From the 90’s. Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay. This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.
minus-squaremyplacedk@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoOnce upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.
minus-squaregreasewizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agowell now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive
minus-squareBrkdncr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoThat’s what they changed. It’s saved to onedrive by default now.
minus-squaregreasewizard@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16arrow-down1·2 months agoRight, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location
You know how many times I’ve had to tell someone that document they created and have been working on for days was never saved even once and can’t really be recovered?
Lemme guess, hundreds-to-thousands, also the people you’re telling it to have business degrees and $100K+ salaries?
$1000/hr billing rates yes. Maybe 10 ppl/year.
I really hope they are incredibly good at a very specific thing that has nothing to do with where tf are their files.
Indeed.
Presumably it’s selling snake oil and convincing people to trust them?
I remember this. From the 90’s.
Autosave has existed AND been the default so long that taking it for granted is now actually okay.
This is not related cloud storage or corporates spying on users. It’s just autosave. That’s all it takes.
Gotta save once first.
Once upon a time it was like that. I don’t remember which decade I saw that last.
well now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive
That’s what they changed. It’s saved to onedrive by default now.
Right, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location