OneDrive

The Culling: OneDrive

A dramatic photo of clouds I shot over the Fraser River.

I have not just turned off OneDrive on my Windows 11 PC, I have uninstalled it! All of my files, photos and electronic doodads are now stored locally and/or on my NAS, until such time that I choose to store some of them “in the cloud” again. And if I do, that big fluffy cloud will not be floating over the hellscape that forms the current political realm known as the United States.

I ponder, but for now, I’m all local, baby. And you know what? It actually feels kind of good. Not even retro (though it definitely has a retro vibe, as well), just…nice. I never really needed cloud storage before, it was just a perk. And now that it’s gone, I’m perfectly fine with that.

The Culling: Microsoft 365

Screenshot:

No fooling, it’s done on April 1st.

When I first clicked the Cancel subscription button, it took me here:

From there, I had to keep scrolling to get to judgy I don’t want my subscription button, which lets you actually cancel:

I don’t blame Microsoft for making a pitch to keep me, and this is way easier than cancelling Amazon Prime, as it’s just a bit of scrolling on a single page.

Anyway, in less than a month, I am off the cloud and, uh, on the ground, or some other metaphor I haven’t quite worked out yet. I had used this sub mainly for the OneDrive storage, but Microsoft is a company I’m trying to minimize all contact with (see previous post) and this is one of the biggest steps I can take.