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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • This is the big reason. OneDrive used to be decent back when it simply offered my cloud storage in a folder locally, and it was more stable than Google Drive on Windows for me. But then, triggered by updates, they started hijacking the rest of my PC, syncing folders that I never wanted synced, like Documents and Pictures. When I uninstalled OneDrive, I couldn’t access them at all! It had without my consent transferred all of my files into OneDrive and completely off of my computer. They were still visibly there, owned by OneDrive, but I couldn’t access them. I had already wiped them from OneDrive before I realized this because at this point I was decided that I was done with OneDrive after this serious breach in trust, but luckily they were still in the OneDrive recycle bin. After a lot of swearing and googling, I found that I was far from the only person dealing with this, and after reading a few threads, I found the solution. I was able to reinstall OneDrive on the PC, restore access to my files, turn off the syncing they was turned on without my permission, and only then uninstall OneDrive. So yeah, I was happy with OneDrive for a few years as an alternative to Google Drive, but after that move? Fuck no, it’s dead to me. I will not let OneDrive touch or get anywhere near my files.





  • I’ve been hearing a lot about this “everything that’s manmade, tall, and narrow is a phallus” theory the last few years, online and even in some college courses. Frankly, I don’t really buy it. Disclosure, this is totally out of my field, so feel free to set my take on fire if I’m wrong. I don’t doubt that the phallus explanation is true in a few cases, but for most towers, spires, steeples, and other pointy monuments, there’s a couple of other possible inspirations that seem more likely to me. The first would be the upright and narrow stance of humans as opposed to animals standing on four legs close to the ground, like a monument to human exceptionalism. Another theory that I would buy is that tall things just look cool to us on an instinctual level. Trees, mountains, and cliffs are beautiful and are more easily personified than other natural features (relating back to the first point). They have this dignity and magesty about them, it makes sense that our architecture and art would attempt to convey that.

    I don’t know, I guess I’m just projecting when I say this, but I just can’t imagine designing a building with cool spikes and thinking “these represent my dick”.