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Yes.
I suspect that if Microsoft wants to continue to sell to governments, all governments, then they are always going to need an option that doesn't require accessing the internet.
That would be there will be cases where there is not internet by design/regulation/law.
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Funny story - there was a time about 4 years ago when our internet suddenly went to sh*t - as in sometimes it was fine, other times it was totally unusable. This went on for a week, until I noticed that the rubbish performance started just after my son woke up in the morning. Then it occurred to me that the start of the troubles coincided with a new laptop he'd bought. So then I took a look, and I realised that the Windows installed on that system was set up to upload the contents of the user home directory to the new fangled "One Drive" system, supposedly for backup purposes. Of course, my son had around 30GB of gaming data stored in that directory, and we were still on ADSL at the time (A standing for asymmetric, upload speeds being a paltry 100kbps or so), so this was going to take a month of Sundays, and of course ultimately fail, because MS is not generous enough to hand out multi GB of data for free. I had to google the sh*t out of that problem to find out how to disable this on his system.
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I ran into the same thing with my wife's computer. It solved itself when Microsoft filled up the folder all by itself.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I can still USB my phone. I even have an app that lets me browse and download photos on my PC. Do you have a filthy iphone?
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Christian Graus wrote: I even have an app that lets me browse and download photos on my PC
Which one ? One provided from the phone manufacturer, or third-party ?
Browsing photo from the phone is taking ages for me (Android phone).
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I use dolphin, which come preinstalled on my OpenSUSE distro. Works a treat on Android phones - iPhones are still the regular PITA they've always been.
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yes, I have an iPhone. What I really need is a simple flip phone. I guess the camera is useful for taking pictures of products and what not.
I'll post a followup once I figure this out.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: The information sharing and pillaging is out of control.
That's what people want.
Not elaborate host files, not lousy interfaces on their router, not having to remember passwords that require 12 chars with one being a capital, one a number, and at least one a non-char that is recognized.
What people want, is what the manager demands, and what we deliver. It has nothing to do with us protecting anyone.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Would iTunes File Sharing functionality help to move files between iPhone/iPad and Windows laptop, via USB cable. This is what i use. My iPad is seldom connected to Internet .(iTunes app installed on Windows machine).
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ITunes felt like a noob tripping around in Windows land. I used it with the IPad Version 1 and that was the end of that.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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As long as it works, it's okay, isn't it?
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Re: "as long as it works".
I bought her a Kindle to spare her.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I have a Kindle Fire 1.0. It’s hardware is sufficient for browsing and streaming but Amazon stopped updates 2 years after release including CA certificates.
Useless today except for reading books/PDFs that I side load via PC.
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the evil part - MS hides stuff under layers and layers of dialogs.
It seems that they have redirected My Documents
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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Charlie, old friend, you know better. In the Beginning, there was RS232...
I hear ya... This useless Windows 11 won't even let me look at my local drive anymore; it only displays the OneDrive trash I can't seem to kill. Maybe it's finally time to learn Linux. I think we need to start thinking of MS as HAL, and treating them and their overbearing ways accordingly.
Will Rogers never met me.
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you mother trucker. Old farts venting here. This one drive sh*t needs to be a class action suit. I'm still looking for where this POS OS put my damn folder.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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I don't get it... what happens to your windows 11?? I'm on it but don't have that issue... (maybe it is because I refused the PIN/Login on cloud BS, dunno)
care to elaborate please?
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not quite sure yet. I too refuse to use a network / global / virus login to keep everything synced. What may have spoofed me is the relocation of 1 drive in windows explorer. it all went down hill from there.
MS allegedly prides itself on UI stuff. Changing UI behavior is just evil.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My iPhone - not that I'm an apple fan - that was a family decision and I'm going to leave that turd there. See the PS at the end.
Seems over the years I've filled up my phone. Well, either I have or apple has or the cell company. See PSS. All I want to do is move the DCIM folder to my hard drive and free up my phone.
I'm on round 3.
Ps, I really could not give a $$$t about phones, no one calls me but spammers. Apparently, the only reason I need a cellphone is for two factor authentication. I am now cashing all my checks and putting it under my bed.
Pps Seems the cell company acquired our provider, finally completed integration and my daughter received 8 text indicating payment was overdue (they lost the autopay...). Which is way, way too much but I digress. Seriously, I'm turning the sucker off, and that's not what I want to elephanting say.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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My first store-bought home computer was an Apple IIc. I couldn't wait to get rid of that trash, so I understand your frustration. I've never owned anything Apple since, and I never will.
Will Rogers never met me.
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All I every saw anyone use an Apple for (in an office environment) was desktop publishing. The "work" was done on PC's and mainframes.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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In the beginning, I'll give them credit; their graphics were superb. Artsie-craftsie types loved them. But they've got nothing else to offer...
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: But they've got nothing else to offer...
Except they will offer - nay, demand! - to take a good chunk of cash off you!
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I remember seeing bespoke financial packages (mainly bond, bill and other commercial paper valuation) being done on apple][ back in the day. It gave the desks some autonomy from the company mainframe and it's need for terminals (and dedicated teams of programmers on the end of the 'phone) and the PC was some way off yet.
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Ahhh... "bespoke". I haven't came across that term since my Project Management studies a few months back. I may be coming across it a lot more since I landed a federal (government) job as an IT Project Manager. Took me a couple of lookups to discern exactly how it applied to the business world. Pretty simple actually but still caught my eye because the word is very uncommon in South Georgia.
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