26, cartoon and video game liker.
Occasional NSFW rechosts, ask me to tag if necessary.
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hey heads up to everyone who uses more than one name or has strong separation of personal and professional identity:
I changed my display name in the web client for Teams to my full legal name for a call with the bank and this, to my astonishment, propagated to my local Windows install and now that name is all over it.
(I am not transgender but I am tagging this transgender as this is in particular a concern for y'all)
My user folder in on my laptop is literally my old name minus the last letter 😭 and I can't change it
yeah mine is also bizarrely truncated, as if the hard drive will run out of letters if we spell out three whole usernames
no. you don't understand. it WILL run out of space. lol
there's a weird fundamental limitation of their filesystem that limits the length of a file path. it's the exact same error as
64k? that'll take you to the moon. no one is ever going to need more than 64k.
i had heard about this and i always wanted to doubt it because the same massive mistake twice? yeah, no. i've encountered it several times now. lol
I know about the file system path limit but it is long enough that I’ve encountered it like twice in thirty years and one of them is because of an mp3 that has a name something like “The Smithsonian Institute presents Songs of the Silk Road, an enchanting musical adventure through the Near East, featuring the talents of…” that was already several folders deep
At least in Windows 10 (not sure which version… the behavior may have changed since then), the user folder name comes from the /email address/ of the Microsoft account you’re using during setup. Specifically the part before the @.
My personal Microsoft account address is “ms@[domain]” (I have all addresses on [domain] so I tend to use a different one for each service I register for) and my user folder was named “ms” when I installed a fresh copy of Windows 10; both of these letters do not appear anywhere in my display name.
how odd, I didn’t realize that because my email address and paper name do align (but it did still truncate it in a bizarre spot)
the folder name stays the same no matter what changes are made to the account.
you may encounter people saying that it can be changed. this is true, and likely to result in destroying all your things. so no trying this without a full backup to restore from.
It really feels like "app settings" are just a suggestion now! In a similar vein, if you have a Microsoft account linked to your Windows account, it'll also automatically log you into Edge. Which wouldn't be an issue if you don't use it—except Teams (desktop) now bypasses your default browser to load URLs in Edge, and you have to dig through settings to turn that off. 🙃
Granted, most of my Windows usage is through employer-provided systems, so I'm used to that lack of control. But when Microsoft is trying to force you to use features that are disabled by Group Policy, it's a little obnoxious!
I have set up separate accounts on the computer for business and for personal, and I run their apps exclusively in their own user spaces, completely with their own accounts and passwords.
Signed, someone whose Youtube account now has the name as their Google Buzz account. 😬
I need to figure out what my laptop is doing honestly because I had recently connected it to my new Microsoft account with my chosen name and for some reason the laptop has it as my deadname under all the Microsoft stuff 🥴
clarification: are you logged into a microsoft account or did you go to all the trouble to disable internet while installing windows to use a local account
if the windows machine were not knowingly connected to my microsoft account, this post would have had a lot more swearing :)
one time i reconnected a microsoft account and it dug up my deadname and the xbox 360 avatar i picked when i was 14
using teams on a non-work computer (rip old job) and it would constantly ask, every time i logged in, if i wanted to basically merge my offline login account with my online work one, and i would have to say no every single time
the fact a single program unrelated to the os has that power is frustrating
someone at Microsoft needs to read "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names"
Likely, the person who most needs to read that isn't a programmer.
only two things that are universally true about names:
every website: "please choose a unique name, this can't be changed later"
