It’s exactly that.

When you login with a microsoft account it also logs you into onedrive. by default onedrive starts up at boot time, and also by default it backs up the main folders of your PC (documents, desktop, pictures, etc.)

It can all be turned off, but the fact it’s opt out its cancerous. The only thing I use onedrive for is to store my offsite 3-2-1 backup. It’s encrypted beforehand with rclone.

Hope it wasn’t something irreplaceable like your kid’s baby photos or anything lol.

To make things worse, if your kid’s baby photos get uploaded and wrongly trigger their CSAM AI scanner, then you get reported to the police as a pedophile, and your account gets nuked. Google was literally caught doing this, microsoft is probably doing the same.

Just more infinite wisdom of idiot nosy companies. this minute clip perfectly summarizes it

I already use linux where it belongs, on my home server. Don’t need it for my personal PC.

The FOSS circlejerk for lack of better term is very loud on Fediverse as a whole. It’s tiring when each time anyone mentions using Windows, or Apple there’s at least one fucker telling you to swap to linux lol…

It’s very loud so I have thought at times to switch back to reddit, where it’s at least less pervasive.