Keep The Files Local!

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If you don't control your data you don't control your data... The cloud is just someone else's computer.... Back up your shit and keep some of those backups offsite but keep everything under your own control...

But we need to harvest your data for…reasons

Otherwise our profits might suffer! Wouldn’t that be terrible?

Debian, LMDE, Suse, Fedora, whatever. Just pick one and go for it.

I also love how the safe prompts in office 365 are putting "this computer" in quotation marks.

This makes me so immediately enraged every single time.

There's advantages to saving documents to the cloud for backups.

Severely limiting that space by default and then preventing you from saving files when it runs out is horseshit. Half the computer problems I've fixed recently are all caused by OneDrive running out of space.

My sister wanted to know why her Sims saves were disappearing. Turns out OneDrive was full and the saves were being backed up to it. No space = no more saving apparently.

Linux doesn’t make you jump through this hoop 🐧🫡🇺🇸

The biggest irony in all of this is that the integration is so much better on Mac than windows. I think it's because it's less aggressive/less ingrained but the one drive,m365, whatever integration on my work Mac is night and day better than the windows machine I had.

I couldn't stand it. And don't get me started on team's weird SharePoint backend or whatever the fuck they have going on.

I tell you h'what that bing ain't right..

Missing a few “got dangs” in there

Yeah well, good luck getting autosave to work now. If you don’t comply, you lose your privileges.

F12 to save

Look at them noobs who don't know that you can tell One Drive to always keep a local copy of the files it backs up.

Keep everything local is a great strategy until your house burns down or your hard drive or SSD decides to end it's own life.

I'm not saying that you should use one drive. I'm saying that you should have backups. If all you can get is cloud storage, then one drive might fit the bill. Maybe it won't. I don't know you or what you want from a backup.

I back up my files to a NAS on my lan, but I also use one drive and Google drive when I need to.

All I'm trying to say is: one drive isn't necessarily the worst option. Raw dogging a single local storage drive as your only copy of the data you're trying to hold onto, is much worse than one drive.

Other than that, I'll just reiterate: back up your shit. And I want to add, check your bitlocker to see if it's on. If it is, back up your recovery key to somewhere safe. Bitlocker, in and of itself isn't a bad thing. I would argue that it's best practice to have some kind of FDE, and bitlocker can achieve that. Just back up the recovery key, for the love of God.

Pro tip. "Print" the recovery to a PDF, then email that file to yourself. Quick and easy. The option to save your recovery key to a file, will not allow that file to be saved to the drive that it unlocks, but if you print it, you can save it as PDF without the same limitations. Just don't leave it on the encrypted drive. Literally put it anywhere else. A USB drive, a NAS, an email, cloud storage, whatever you like. I'm not your boss.

Save yourself a metric fuckton of work, and/or lost data; back up your shit.

EDIT, some words (auto carrot), also, WTF? I'm being down voted for saying you should have backups? I expect better from lemmings.

Related, I'm a sysadmin, and I work in IT, and I approve this message. Back up your shit.