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Unpopular opinion: OneDrive automatic integration is amazing. Get a new PC, login, boom. PC at your parents' house? Boom.
I tried open source file syncing and it was jank. Everyone making their own cloud is inefficient anyway.
I just wish windows phone was still a thing and it could all be on the Microsoft account. It remains better value than any other offering.
That said, if it's not your thing and you don't want any of it, I agree there should be a big red "I've got this" button if you want to go full manual transmission. Well, windows style, maybe circa Windows 7. Linux is only for those for whom playing with settings is why they computer.
Also "personalisation" can eat a dick. And stop fucking asking me for feedback. You get 1 star everytime just for asking. I'm done. /rant
- If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times, OneDrive is not a backup solution. You should not be using it to sync files between PCs. It's at best a data sharing solution which also extensively mines your data. If you're using OneDrive to backup important information you'll regret it when your data is gone and there's no support from Microsoft to resolve it.
  
  Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
  Sounds utterly illegal, and likely to lead to countless lawsuits. They've got better phone support than Google, especially when you're a paying customer, and I'm not expecting one of the biggest corporations on the planet to just up and leave with my data, and I've sure as shit never heard of it happening.
  Microsoft products have a bunch of problems I'm happy to moan about, and a UX team that I swear doesn't even use M$ products, but data security does not seem to be one of them.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Sidekick_data_loss
  Microsoft’s loss of cloud data for the Sidekick phone was one of the biggest disasters in cloud computing history.
  
  We've come a long way since 2009.
  
  It's not MS but Google Drive suffered data loss back in November. Any company can accidentally fuck something up. That's why I self host. When I eventually loose data, it will be my own damn fault!
  
  Fair. I'm not knocking that choice if it's for you. But it isn't for most people, especially those who are not at all tech savvy.
  I work in IT, and almost nobody who opted to use external hard drives for backup is ever up to date with their backups.
- This is not unpopular, just the wrong opinion. "Think different."
  
  To paraphrase Office Space:
  Let me ask you something. Where you work, does anyone ever tell you to "think different?"
  No. No, man. Shit, no, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
  
  Its a quote from Apple 😭
  
  Oh, I know.
  
  Nobody has any good explanation for why though.
  
  Even if it wasn't spyware, there is 0 reason to use it over other options.
  
  What do you recommend?
  I want something that I can set up and forget about, that costs a few bucks a month or less, and integrates between all my devices. Security is a given, so let's assume spyware or not, the data is safe unless I fuck up.
  
  filen.io, mega.nz.

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