Both OneDrive accounts were over their limits. Getting notifications that they were frozen and slated for deletion (even if that would only happen in July and November) was just getting annoying. Almost as annoying as the notifications to sign up for Office 365 for a year for free. I already trialed that service and while it is great, it isn't worth the money since all I use it for is watching a random favorite video or storing a few important word documents like my CV. Oh and sharing videos with people.. XD
And I didn't even get them anywhere near the free 1000TB offered with the Office 365 1 year trial. The one account that had gotten 100GBs free from Bing rewards also had that promotion expire.
5GBs each. Totally worthless. Oh well. Cleared them both out mostly.
I found it funny a few years ago when I was reading about all the people that would exploit the hell out of Microsoft, then named SkyDrive, because, why not.
They'd upload their entire DVD and bluray libraries and access them from everywhere. Microsoft put their foot down and put a price on it. Even at less than 100$ a year, with Office 365 included.. without Xbox Live, it isn't a bargain.
One of the guys at work said that they locked down WiFi at the office because people took advantage of it. One dude was working 20 hours a week but charging 40 hours. The rest of the time he'd kick back and watch porn. Back at Aldo this could have happened too and I think they said they'd had one dude do something like that years ago too (but didn't to my knowledge in my department) after we figured out what the wifi password was).
I'm not even sure what they'd consider to be abuse of open WiFi for employees though since we weren't supposed to use it and no one ever said anything. Being on it for a few years after Public Mobile gave me little choice was kind of fun. I'd listen to music during the night shift and otherwise wouldn't miss any notifications or have to worry about blowing my data. Up until they locked down internet at our desks I would watch Twitch between calls.
CAE is a whole new ball game. Getting paid so much less and having to choose when to turn on data just to check my email.. I'm losing my hair with stress. Can't even make any calls with Google Voice because it would use too much data. I bought a new Public Mobile SIM and will consider their 6 gigs for 90 days for 90 dollars plan. It doesn't been Rogers's silly 10 dollars for 100 megabytes but after a month of eating dust and never being able to have data on.. fuck those guys. I'm glad I was able to have them wave the $20 connection fee. Compared to Public Mobile, Rogers offering 500 megabytes for $30 is a joke.
I just miss not having Office 365. I'd like to get it back because I could use Office 365, but in the end 1 year is over very quickly. Another 6 months being harrased to clear out the drive or start paying at least the 7$ a month just doesn't sound appealing.
The shit part being that it supported uploads of videos up to 10 gigabytes. Most would play back without buffering. IF they'd bump that up to 20GB files with 4K support I could consider it. But then they've have to have a robust enough network to play back those files without buffering.
Looks at zeroed out OneDrive accounts again. OH.. they are offering 5TB Office 365 trials for one year which would be 99 per year thereafter. Nope.
I'd bite but it is really hard to upload 5TB nvm 10TB between both accounts. That's almost what I've got stored in Google Photos only because it has been uploading literally everything on all of my drives. I didn't even get to 200GB on either account in the last year while I was testing out Office 365. :/
Oddly enough they have a totally reasonable 2$ per month option but it doesn't include Office 365. $24 per year of office would be really reasonable.
What I've learned is that no matter how much storage you have.. it is highly improbable that you'll access even a fraction of it, thuse making the sole benefit of these services their convenience. The peace of mind of knowing that your files are there and accessible. Or you could set up your home computer to share that stuff and keep a couple backups for yourself. It just wouldn't be cheap.
Now apparently, if you've been tracking tech news, cloud storage and backing up the photos and videos on your phone is ruled by Google Photos. Naturally since they offer unlimited free uploads that makes them the best. I think I have about 9TBs which I've love to clean up to be honest.. but that could take months, years...
This seems to have some limitations for file size and quality however the only files it won't automagically back up are 4k files, in 4K quality. If they are reasonable size, like under 10GB (still haven't found the line) it'll drop them down to 1080p. And that's fine since it is impractical to try to stream these files at 4K.
What I didn't understand is why they'd have a limit, 2GB on auto uploads, if it lets up upload huge files anyway.
And I suppose it is immoral to use Google Photos to back up your entire video library since it is a free service.
Uhhuh.. right.
So I've been using Microsoft's Edge browser, due to stability, to upload all of these 4K videos that the Google Photos Auto Backup uploader skips. So far it has only skipped a couple of really big files. It does annoyingly have collision detection for some videos where it knows it already has a similar lower quality, or just existing copy of a video so it will skip it. I got annoyed one time with a particular video and managed to upload it 3 times. Oops. It just won't upload a better quality version of a video if it knows there's already one there. So I'm not quite sure why that video ended up uploaded 3 times.
The fun part is sharing the automatically or manually uploaded videos with people. Which .. is.. piracy no? I suppose but I don't mean it like sharing everything with everyone, just more like hey have you seen this thing and send them a link so they can check something out. Then they would go see Netflix or whatever website it is to check out that video. Or they'd start using Google Photos if they haven't started already. It is so ridiculously convenient and hassle free.