Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?
CameronDev@programming.dev 20 hours ago
Can I introduce you to the concept of “fire” :D
A single bitflip wiping your novel is incredibly unlikely, to the point of being almost impossible. Modern OSs and filesystems are fairly resilient, and the data is likely all still there.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Fire? Never happened to the houses I lived in, seems kinda rare ngl (/joke)
But like you ever heard of Microsoft just yoink your files onto OneDrive then deletes your local copy? Then oopsie, ran out of storage, and you didn’t pay subscription, so your cloud is gone too…
I don’t think an evil arsonist can even do that much damage, deleting millions of files across the world.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
To be fair, using OneDrive is like using paper that can spontaneously combust at any moment.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
It’s on by default lmfao
Your brand new notebook comes pre-gasolined
BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
My laptop came preloaded with Linux.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
Haven’t used Windows for anything at home for years now. Even convinced my wife to switch her laptop to Mint when she got fed up. It’s been nice.
DomeGuy@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
OneDrive is absurdly easy to not use. I feel confident saying that if you can’t figure out how to save an MS word file to a non-onedrive folder you should definitely leave it on. A single backup on a cloud service with a local cache is better than a single backup on one physical drive that will eventually fail.
If it’s important, you want at least three backups in two different formats with one physically removed from the others. A copy you save to a thumb stick, a copy you save to OneDrive, and one you print out. (Or, conversely, the physical copy you bought, one electronic copy local, and one copy of that electronic version saved to iCloud or what have you.)