It's not dumb as a concept. Cloud storage in a data center offers far more safety than an external drive of any kind.
But it should not be the only place your data is stored. It should ideally be the third place.
Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 12 hours ago
Ha, shows you right.
God, people, just get yourselves flash drives or an external drive. Cloud storage is dumb.
Triumph@fedia.io 12 hours ago
ji59@hilariouschaos.com 12 hours ago
While I agree with you, most people don’t understand what cloud is and since Microsoft is pushing users to use OneDrive, general user would just turn it on just to get rid of the window.
Sammy@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Exactly. I work with the Elderly and it’s been a struggle to a) explain what OneDrive is and b) show the how to locally save because W11 defaults to saving to cloud.
It’s an absolute mess and I’ve gotten at least 3 people to start using Linux, just a little.
degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io 12 hours ago
Most people aren't choosing to enable OneDrive; it's enabled by default, and not obvious how to disable.
pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org 9 hours ago
Stop excusing the stupid. People are capable to learn to avoid it and disable it.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Windows update will frequently reenable OneDrive. Microsoft systematically undermines people ability to understand and control their own device.