I still don’t understand why they made it a recycle bin, what gets recycled?
This is supposedly the real answer: “to differentiate from Apple’s Trash and avoid potential legal risks post-lawsuit, Microsoft adopted Recycle Bin”.
Off topic. But I can’t help but rate the trash cans.
- 1995: Excellent can. Obviously not that many pixels to work with but it is clear, legible and clean.
- 1998: I mean its fine, but a bit of a downgrade. Why so much black? Especially that top rim that apparently was painted black. The shading on the arrows also just hurts legibility, why do 2D arrows have shading anyways?
- 2000: Nope. The only good thing about it is that it is throwing away Windows. The shading is to simple arrows are strange colours and lacks a sense of depth.
- 2001: I don’t love the theme but the execution is great. It looks clean shiny and bright. The only real weird thing is the bag inside, it is a bit strangely round despite seemingly not going over the edge.
- 2006: This is a nice refinement of the last one. Cleaner look, skip the bag, more realistic trash. This is the second best executed after 1995.
- 2015: This one is bland and lacks contrast and detail. The arrows are also oddly stubby for some reason. It’s not bad, but also not good.
To be honest, the 2000 icon is fake. The real icon just has paper, not a Windows logo inside.
I think with the arrows on the ‘98 version they were trying to go with an embossed look, but it kinda flops because of the lack of resolution.
It’s possible it looked better on a CRT.
Somebody Else’s Trashcan
Trashcan-As-A-Service (TAAS)
Would be fun if they didn’t turn Windows into a cloud platform.
I know this is windows, but I remember when I got my work-iPad and became acquainted with the cloud. When it “ran out of storage” and wanted me to pay for extra storage and I was like: why the fuck would I pay you for storing my files on your shady cloud? If anything, I was relieved that the “cloud was full” because that must mean that none of what is currently on my iPad is uploaded anywhere weird and shady. Right? Right? Lol. I’m glad that most of the shit stuck in the cloud are shitty memes I saved in images early, because im a friggin child. Barely anything important has been saved there. I still dunno how it works or why I should want it to save my shit.
It’s the same with how many people told me how I should get an iPhone after I got an iPad because it would make it so easy for me to fileshare and link everything up. How I should also get a Mac so I could file-sharing there and my reaction everytime was: why would I want all my devices linked, bro? That sounds like a potential safety hazard to me, but I’m a tech-retard so I don’t know anything. I just don’t find the idea of everything being linked up and gathered in the cloud to be particularly enticing or cute. I like my devices separate and I don’t mind if it’s a but inconvenient for me to fileshare.
Sometimes I don’t understand people nor why they think conveniences overrules personal safety and privacy. Are you sure you want every single thing you do on one device to be shared and saved on another? Are you SURE you want that? Because I’m not. It’s not even a matter of doing fishy stuff or not, it’s a matter of having control over where your information is stored and accessible and there’s no way in fucking hell I’d want my personal phone to be linked to my WORK iPad. Lol. Nobody needs see the diabetes-inducing shit my boyfriend and I send to one another everyday.
“No I love you moar💗😍”
“No you, cutie-poo❤️❤️❤️”
“No you times infinity😘”
Yes, we are pushing 40. No, we don’t plan on stopping being this gross.
Are you sure you want every single thing you do on one device to be shared and saved on another? Are you SURE you want that? Because I’m not. It’s not even a matter of doing fishy stuff or not, it’s a matter of having control over where your information is stored
Exactly my opinion, if I want something accessible from a different device through the cloud I’ll be the one to put it there. I’ll decide which folders to sync, which files to upload. 99% of my data is crap that I don’t want synced, half of that is probably not anything I even want on that device in the first place.
What really gets me is that the things I really really don’t ever want to lose, I don’t ever want any cloud provider to have access to without it being encrypted.
Personally, I prefer to store files etc on external hard drives. It’s a mix of not liking how little control I feel I have over my files when they are being stored by a separate entity (if you can call it that), but also because as I become gradually more aware, I just find it harder and harder to be okay with the idea of having thousands of servers all over the world in datacenters standing there, running full time, nuking the environment, just so I can have my memes and vacation pictures etc accessible at all hours of the day and from any device I use.
I know it’s probably more complicated than that, and I also don’t judge what other people do, as we all pick our battles. I just can’t help but feeling weird about all this cloud-type shit that all the tech-psychos want us to use, become dependent on and charge us for. It just doesn’t feel right to me.
Look into M-Disk.
100-120GB Blurays.
Yes, indeed, why would you?
They’re basically bulletproof, hard drives can corrupt slowly over time, and you may not realize that one file among thousands no longer functions or opens. Those solve that issue cheaper and more environmentally than a NAS, especially of you want to archive sensitive and personal data.
This is a love story if I ever saw one!
The most love story that ever storied.
Are you sure you want every single thing you do on one device to be shared and saved on another?
Yes.
it’s a matter of having control over where your information is stored and accessible
That’s why I self-host a personal cloud on an encrypted device with VPN access only.
no way in fucking hell I’d want my personal phone to be linked to my WORK iPad.
That’s why I sandbox my personal and organization profiles. If I had a dedicated work device, none of my personal accounts would be connected anyways.
we don’t plan on stopping being this gross.
Love. Gross.
all it does is slow my work PC down. never once actually looked in the stupid thing
2000 microsoft was peak. Even they acnowledged windows is trash.
That’s fake of course. Original:
Dissapointed!
Oval trashcans. This was a forewarning!
This picture makes me feel like I missed entire era in windows development ( and by that I mean I don’t really miss it). I left windows so long ago I’ve never encountered onedrive.
Hah so true. Just another money grab to get us to sign up for subscriptions we don’t need.
So what can I send to OneDrive to make Microsoft regret ever forcing it on me?
I saw the thumbnail and came in here ready to declare my love for the 1998 version (peak Windows design IMO). Once I saw the full meme, it made me actually laugh out loud. Nice.
I think one drive was the biggest factor in me deciding that I needed to self host my files
