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New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:03:35 +0000

Yes.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:05:32 +0000

Open Control Panel. OneDrive is in it. Click the 'Uninstall' button. Then click yes.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:14:23 +0000

It is on by default as of the last time I went through new Mac user setup, which was during....Sequoia, I think.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft and other large technology companies are hostile to their users"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:38 +0000

Nope. This is an officially supported function, required under law. Edge WebView remains present for functionality that requires it.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:00:10 +0000

The way iCloud Desktop works is that it uploads your stuff to the cloud, using your iCloud Storage quota.

The way that OneDrive works is that it uploads stuff to OneDrive, using your Microsoft 365 storage quota.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:57:27 +0000

OneDrive seems pretty clear to me. It works identically to the way the same functionality works under macOS.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:56:57 +0000

When an awful post gets botted to the top of HN and I see it, I will call out the awful post if I so feel like it.

New comment by selectively in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:55:44 +0000

Open the screen where you remove apps and click the uninstall button.

New comment by selectively in "EFF is leaving X"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:06:38 +0000

Truth. Unpopular here, but that is the truth.

New comment by selectively in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:44:19 +0000

I have access to effectively infinite API tokens for all models from Anthropic as well as OpenAI. The differential in performance in complex tasks is vast and strongly in favor of Opus, in my experience. I do not use the official harnesses for either model, though - as they are not my taste.

Codex is closer to my taste, as it is at least a native app and not typescript slop. But the model is just not up to snuff.

New comment by selectively in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:17:37 +0000

Oh. Yikes.

New comment by selectively in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

selectively — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:15:09 +0000

Price drops are nice. Unfortunately, the quality differential versus the competitor is night and day.

And everyone serious uses the API rate billing anyway.

New comment by selectively in "Solana Drift Protocol drained of $285M via fake token and governance hijack"

selectively — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:24:22 +0000

It was also briefly useful for buying drugs on the Internet.

It also enabled the existence of ransomware. Can't go big fish hunting if there is no viable way to pay the attacker.

All Bitcoin/crypto "currency" is harm with near-zero upside.

New comment by selectively in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

selectively — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:33:35 +0000

Idiotic. Absolute dumbness.

New comment by selectively in "Android Developer Verification"

selectively — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:45:35 +0000

Your post is an outright lie.

New comment by selectively in "Android Developer Verification"

selectively — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:41:07 +0000

How it started: almost everything is signed, even pirated apps

How it's going: almost everything is signed, even pirated apps.

????

New comment by selectively in "Android Developer Verification"

selectively — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:39:36 +0000

This is non-technical. F-Droid is horrible. https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/#5...

F-Droid has not meaningfully improved since that piece was written, either. No one should use F-Droid.

New comment by selectively in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

selectively — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:36:36 +0000

Rare good decision from SCOTUS.

New comment by selectively in "Apple Business"

selectively — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:56:40 +0000

I'm talking about enterprise software, not games. Minecraft exists for Mac, grab the Java version.

New comment by selectively in "Apple Business"

selectively — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:20:11 +0000

Needing VBA is more common than you think. Excel really has no competitor.