• Almonds@mander.xyz
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    14 days ago

    I’m in university (as an old) and just about everyone from faculty to staff has been pushing me to put everything in OneDrive. I know better, but young people tend to trust that an educational institution is looking out for them.

    My freshman year I met teenagers who didn’t know what a flash drive is. Most of them have iPads with no storage, one of my classmates was just uploading all her lectures directly to YouTube so she could review them later.

    • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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      14 days ago

      There’s nothing wrong with putting everything in OneDrive… as long as you also have it somewhere else.

      At work we’re told to put everything into OneDrive and we’re blocked from using USB drives, or using any other online storage. Fortunately all of the data I use and create on my work computer belongs to my employer, so if they only trust MS with their data then who am I to argue?

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        11 days ago

        Yeah, I understand why employers use it. Oddly, I used to work for Microsoft and can’t remember using OneDrive for our projects lol

        But as a student I really prefer saving stuff locally and to a separate storage device. The university system has been hacked at least once since I’ve been a student, we all lost our credentials and were required to physically go to the campus to reset them. The university also revokes access three years after graduation.

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          14 days ago

          Oddly, I used to work for Microsoft and can’t remember using OneDrive for our projects lol

          They knew better than to get high off their own supply