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For a bit of background,

My phones gallery app has an "on this day" feature, but it makes cringey as fuck videos of crap I snapped pics of about 3 years ago, so it's a neat feature to see what you were doing a few years back, but I never used it because the music is too cringe, and the slides are cringe and there is no way to turn it off!

I have the "on this day" feature on OneDrive as well, I use OneDrive to back up my phone photos, and that just shows me a defined search query with a bunch of photos to scroll through at my leisure, (no cringy music), but today something horrifying happened, OneDrive had gone ahead and made a cringey slideshow of some of the crappy photos I took several years ago, and the cringe was so bad that I wanted to unalive myself almost immediately, and the music was on by default. 🤦‍♂️

It was showing me a slideshow of all the shirts I had in my wardrobe, (I took photos of all my clothes so I either buy the same thing again or don't buy more than two pairs of the same item), but this feature lacks nuance, there are so many random encounters I have that I'm now able to document through the wonders of technology (and my phones camera), but some of them are just inappropriate for slideshow generation, for example I have a picture of a Ford Falcon crashed into a local Australia Post Office, or images of somebody who was mauled by an animal. - it's not a pleasant memory, it should never be made into a slideshow, and now I've spent the last hour or so trying to figure out how to permanently disable this *feature*, and it seems like they have just forgotten to add that option... 🤷‍♂️