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Microsoft's OneDrive Begins Testing Face-Recognizing AI for Photos (for Some Preview Users) - Slashdot (hardware.slashdot.org)
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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Just checked, yep, LibreOffice has an option for autosave. No cloud sync provider needed…as it should be…