Post #3831204 · Elektrine

2026-07-15 06:56 UTC

What's particularly galling is that there's no real reason for the change, beyond "It's what everyone else is doing". I never, ever go to them for IT support unless it's something that I literally can't access because it requires network admin privileges to allow on my PC. Things like trying to get it to work with the office printer, or asking for my dashboard server to be given a static IP. All the while I'm at this company, there's no reason why I can't carry on the way I am. Then when I leave, the PC can be wiped and set up with Windows for the next person to use. I'm sensible enough to not ask them to allow any weird, sketchy shit, and they ought to know that by now. But it's not personal, they're just taking the (reasonable) view that if everyone has the same PCs running the same software, then support will be much easier. But it leaves me feeling like I've been lied to.

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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org 2026-07-15 11:37

So, what I've learned this morning is that Microsoft have done everything in their power to ensure that Linux users can't easily access OneDrive. WinApps: Tried sharing the OneDrive folder over SMB so that the WinVM could share with my host PC. I can read like a champ, but not write. WinApps: Tried mounting ~/OneDrive in the VM then setting OneDrive up in that folder. Nope, MS won't allow OneDrive to be setup on a shared drive. PWA: Nope. Can't set up a web app. As far as I can tell, MS don't provide a manifest.json for the OneDrive site, so the FireFox plugin won't work. Syncthing: Straight up fails to sync the actual OneDrive folder, but *can* sync a sub folder. Website: Does work, but means having to work in a website. *sigh* Have I ever expressed how much I hate Microsoft?

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