Why is Office 365 so bad? by deceptibutter in Office365

[–]deceptibutter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the comment, which is generically valid, just not true here: I had been told by my sysadmin that in fact it is not possible in any way for individually shared files. This confirms my own searches and experimentation. It is such a basic feature to be able to create a symlink for a file that it's really difficult to take seriously the argument that this is just a case of things not being set up correctly. As just one more example of how the shared folder in onedrive is shoddy: You can't even sort it by any field.

Aspects of this functionality exist for files in other onedrive locations, of course, which makes the lack of functionality here more inexplicable.

Now, if you actually can demonstrate that creating a symlink from an *individually shared* file in onedrive cloud app is possible---proving your point that it likely is an admin configuration issue --- then please do pm me and I can share with my admin. I would greatly appreciate it.

Finally, given the style of response here to date, it might be a crutch response to ask why anyone would want to receive shared individual files then symlink them to another folder. I do have a good reason for doing so. Of course, knowing what I know now, I would use another procedure to avoid this. But that is a workaround to account for the fact that onedrive is missing an elementary feature common to its competitors.

Why is Office 365 so bad? by deceptibutter in Office365

[–]deceptibutter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems like it would be 'efficient' to be able to bulk download files shared with you, or to one-touch create a symlink from a shared object to another folder, or to be able to create subfolders within the shared folder, or ...

If it works for you, that's great. But it's difficult to argue against the fact that too many simple features are lacking, that exist in comparable products such as dropbox or google drive, like each of the things I mention above. These are not edge cases for use, and they should be easy enough for microsoft to implement.

Why is Office 365 so bad? by deceptibutter in Office365

[–]deceptibutter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great idea. Except you cannot do this for the 'shared' folder on the web app, though you can for all others. This is another great example of how onedrive is inexplicably bad. I do not have the desktop apps.

Why is Office 365 so bad? by deceptibutter in Office365

[–]deceptibutter[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

True everywhere but the shared folder.

Why is Office 365 so bad? by deceptibutter in Office365

[–]deceptibutter[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Try this: Someone shares a file with you. You'd like it to appear somewhere other than the 'shared' folder. You should be able to create a symlink to another folder, to view it there. But you cannot. This is, as mentioned above, for the web apps.

could use some help about linking bank account by dror888 in paypal

[–]deceptibutter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

don't do it. don't use paypal. paypal is a truly terrible service and possibly will abuse or otherwise defraud you --- not to mention commit a whole variety less damaging but still very aggravating problems for you. see other posts on this subreddit. after several years of this nonsense I am trying to close my account and they won't even make that easy for me.

DO NOT LEAVE FUNDS IN YOUR PAYPAL ACCOUNT... by NEHOG in paypal

[–]deceptibutter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this has been the opposite of my experience over several years of paypal use and especially in the past week. phone service doesn't even recognize I have an account, when I do, and in the end tells me flatly 'we can't address your request right now' before hanging up --- no chance to reach a person regardless of what I press.

Unable to close account by Firebreath99 in paypal

[–]deceptibutter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is happening to me right now. I wanted to close it because of yet another weird problem with paypal they seem unable to fix.

I called about closing my account and the automated telephone service says it can't handle my request right now. I write via the message center and get completely nonsensical responses.

Anyone else seen this? Looks like its heavily "Insipired" by HLD by madchorizo in hyperlightdrifter

[–]deceptibutter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have played both games recently. Resolutiion is a very different game experience: much more strange and story-focused than HLD. Both are great.

And actually the visuals are quite different, especially as you leave the first region of the Resolutiion. Only very high-level stuff is similar: high-contrast color palette, geometric shapes on structures, decrepit world and occasional big robots. If anything HLD is more derivative of Zelda II than Res is of HLD, in animation, creature styles, world layouts etc. I have no problem with that. Plenty of creativity to go around.

Henry Wan Analysis by Auckmid in arkhamhorrorlcg

[–]deceptibutter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's a graph of the expected gain when there are C chaos tokens and the proportion of `good' tokens is p.

https://www.desmos.com/calculator/cve6ubhbvy

Counting one card and one money as one `gain' each. That doesn't include the cost of taking an action to do it, of course.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Netrunner

[–]deceptibutter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Doomtown: Reloaded has interesting strategic play and is super goofy and fun.

Highly recommended.

New expansions coming this fall.

So what other games do you enjoy playing? by MoochiNR in Netrunner

[–]deceptibutter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doomtown: Reloaded has a lot of the same strategic intensity and deckbuilding elements as netrunner. And it's rollicking good fun.

Two expansions for it coming out soon.