You can only turn off this setting 3 times a year.
This won’t fly in the EU under GDPR.
Good fucking luck bringing any actual consequences to Microsoft except a fine of 0.001% of their yearly profits after 5 years of arbitration.
And there it is.
Windows 11 is pushing OneDrive and Copilot hard. There are OneDrive sections in many Microsoft apps, not just Office365. Tweaking settings to never (offer) saving to OneDrive has little effect.
The best way to avoid OneDrive is to avoid Microsoft apps, ideally get rid of Windows.
Office 365 requiring OneDrive to auto save is so dumb, I’m pretty sure all other text editors let you do it without any sort of cloud sync, let alone using the first-party provider. Then you have the requirement to sign into a Microsoft account to use Windows, forcing a dedicated Microsoft CoPilot key on laptop keyboards (it should have been a keyboard shortcut or something!), defaulting to Edge, Outlook, and Bing search, pushing Office 365 subscriptions in the SETTINGS page, the full screen ads for Win11 in Win10, the list goes on. If we had good consumer protection laws, none of this would be allowed…
It’s not just Microsoft, of course, I can say the same about Apple and Google for their respective operating systems.
Just checked, yep, LibreOffice has an option for autosave. No cloud sync provider needed…as it should be…
Regular old word without Copilot now has AI auto alt text generation for images. Desktop word, save on One drive, with copilot blocked at the firewall.
Does Windows reset your settings often making it impossible to avoid this with the " three times per year" bullshit.
I often see posts that Windows resets your settings. What an aggravating distro!.
Linux is free. Just drop a Linux mint. It was one of my first distros. Very simple to use and a breath of fresh air.
People generally don’t understand how much of their time wasted on fiddling with Windows could be automated
What alternatives are out there for automated cloud backup of your photos like OneDrive does? It’s next on my list of deMicrosofting.
Immich if you’re handy with a computer, [Ente(https://ente.io/) if you want a plug n play solution.
I use both, more backups are always better. I find these two much better in terms of ease of use (for Ente and arguably Immich once you have it set up) and flexibility (for Immich in particular)
