There is a lot of stuff that annoys me in this post, but the only thing I will say is this: You may take tons of shitty lolmemes with your phone but some of us do not.
I will also say this: you are weak for not rolling your own email.
So if you do take
non shitty important pictures you want to save, why do you
not want to have them stored locally? I'm genuinely interested now in that rationale.
Email, is more of an acquired taste. I'm still on the very same hotmail account I made when I was 13. I'll agree right away that this is cloud, too... At the same time, marked differences because functionally Hotmail has been identical, or near identical for the last two decades and then some; and remained free. Cloud storage is not quite so stable in general.
Feel free to point out everything else that annoys you, this is a 'how do you feel about' topic... I honestly don't mind and please do point out my hypocrisy in this too. I might learn a thing
Even when it says that it is uninstalled it seems that Windows 10/11 actually runs at least the drivers for that in the background and may be the top layer on your storage array. In Windows 7 there was no issue swapping drives but with 11 especially you have to use a program like Disk Wizard or Miray to get a drive that has Windows installed on it formatted to the point where it removes those 2 files that reside on Windows boot drives. Even RAID 0 drives have to use a program to format them properly if you separate the array in Windows 11. I may be wrong but something caused me not be able to play Forza Horizon after upgrading to Windows 11 without re-downloading it. One thing I do is only save files to this PC when installing Windows but it seems Onedrive is built into Windows OS and stores at least your Gamepass credentials as I can't even access the files and the folder is hidden.
On W10 I don't see this at all. I do know its a persistent motherfucker on 11.
I even checked services, and there's not a single one running.
Hi,
Updates tend to reinstall onedrive and now teams if you have office installed.
Office is another such item I would gladly omit from my Windows OS... its a commercial tool and like you say opts in on other services and before you know it, you're stuck with the whole shebang. There is OpenOffice...
Luckily I still have an Office XP Pro...
Still works a charm, does everything it needs to... and
stays identical. Also no ribbons. Aaahhhhh glorious. Although I gotta say the ribbons are something to get used to, and when you do, they're okay, ish.
Cloud is just a marketing term. If you want to get literal, then sure, there is no cloud. But is that the point? No.
The point of "the cloud" is there is a "place" (regardless the fact it is "virtual") where data is stored that can be accessed from any device with Internet access.
Whether you trust the cloud to store your data or not is an individual decision. But many individuals and companies do - and without problems. Me? Again I do trust the cloud to not lose my data. I just don't trust it to keep it secure. So (partly due to my age) it is likely I will never in my lifetime store any personal or sensitive files out there I would not want the bad guys to get ahold of.
Yep... technically I trust the cloud... But technical perspective isn't reality and certainly not security.