Even after saying no to OneDrive and doing all I can to remove it, it tends to randomly come back months later and will automatically start uploading my desktop and documents folder to the cloud.
Edit: I even specifically bought the Pro version hoping to be able to shut some of this off.
It's not worth the hassle, but for the Windows machines in my house I set up Windows Server and have all the machines provisioned to an Active Directory domain where I turn off all the crap via Group Policy. You can get by with just editing Group Policy for a standalone Windows Pro copy, but for more than one machine I really didn't want to fiddle with having to update each machine's policy whenever Microsoft does something stupid.
This literally does not happen. Are you on Windows 10? It doesn't happen in 11. It is fully uninstalled. If I search the Start Menu for OneDrive it doesn't even show up.
It very much does happen. I’m one 11. It seems like every time it updates I get the “let’s finish setting up your computer” screen that asks me to setup one drive.
I get benefits with AI both on the writing the code part and the understanding the problem part. If AI disappeared tomorrow I’d probably still enter “plan mode” in my head. I like having the discussion with the AI about requirements and edge cases and all that, while it updates the plan and documents architectural decisions in CLAUDE.md. I love that I can add extra polish, such as color to terminal output, or other random features that would have not made the cut before. Instead toiling on a random one off script to fix a problem I can have a whole CLI build that is a joy to use. Explaining complex architecture is easy now because instead of a boring EDD I can slop out animations that demonstrate data moving and transforming through a system.
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