Your computer? That you own? In your house?
My work forces us to save everything to the drive, so anything in our home drives or desktops is automatically backed up.
But not my downloads folder. It is the only spot on my work laptop safe from backup. They’ll never get me.
In 2026 this is a book for trust fund babies
F’ing suck, used to be available to the masses. I hope it will again, but even a raspberry pi is a luxury good these days.
I have failing hard drives in my NAS but they are nearly 4x the price from when I bought them, so I’m struggling to save for replacements. I’m so pissed off that even used enterprise stuff that used to be cheap, is now also luxury goods priced. I will be paying 259.99 for a drive I used to pay 69.99 for.
Microsoft wants to start charging you to access your own files…
This meme is coming full circle with the push by all MLM douchelord slopjocks to make sure no one has an actual computer in their house anymore.
I’m convinced this has been the plan for some time. My kids don’t see the point of computers when they have their phones and school iPads. They dont understand the concept of data ownership and everything is temporary to them, whatever is fed by the algorithm.
They are better off that most, my hard core nerdiness has rubbed off so they at least know how to use a computer, have built one each themselves. I just hope it continues to be possible going forward, but I’ll be willing to bet, on the other side of the age verification crap, is even more restrictions. They plan a death by a thousand cuts, until it’s no longer feasible, then. No longer legal to run your own compute.
Or in the rare cases where I do want to save to onedrive. Cool lets dump every document right into the root onedrive folder with zero organization or file tree structure.
I work w college kids… they have no idea how file structures work
I work with a ~50yo engineer who organises files by type. Doesn’t put files related to the project in the same directory. He puts word docs in one folder, excel in another, pdf in another etc.
Except it is on your local machine. It’s also backed up online and accessible from other machines on your account.
Microsoft will not allow you to enable the auto save feature unless the location is part of OneDrive.
You can manually save to a local store, but that is it.
There are some work around, but it shouldn’t be necessary in the first place.
The one drive folder is still a local folder as well. This meme is just stupid and ignorant.
It’s saved locally and automatically backed up.
You can view it offline and online.
You don’t need to manually save it locally as well, it already is.
Except that word/excel refuse to let me enable “auto save” unless the file location is in a folder that is part of OneDrive.
The only thing ignorant is your comment.
This is not accurate, files will sometines be set to “online only” automatically. I had 1 Tb of one drive storage for many years, when I decided to stop using it I had to download houndreds of gigabites of my own files (which took weeks as microslop throttles onedrive downloads)
So many files may be on your system, but if you use it for long enough you’ll find many of your files are online only