I don’t know if it’s the platforms, the users, or both, but it just annoys the ever loving crap out of me that cloud storage is basically used like a digital junk drawer.

There’s this article about how Gen-Z doesn’t apparently understand how filesystems work which kind-of, maybe, explains things a bit. Again, I blame tech for that.

Even with search, I can’t find half or more of the files co-workers swear are in there.

And I know they know how to put things into folders. We were using an on-prem fileserver until 4 years ago, and they filed things just fine. Now files just go into a “bucket” and they expect you to rummage through it to find what you need.

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    3 months ago

    “My everything drawer is in this picture, and I don’t like it”

    I used to have this drawer. But then I grew up. Now I have five of these drawers. Progress

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      3 months ago

      When I bought the house I’m in now, I decided to just dive headfirst into it: the first day, I pointed to a drawer and told it “You’re the junk drawer now”.

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        3 months ago

        Hahaha, just the one, classy!

        To be more on topic though: compared to your own hosted cloud, corporate clouds are worse in almost any way except maybe uptime and reliability. Compared to having no cloud, it’s not so bad, right?

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          3 months ago

          Honestly, after being 4 years into Google Drive replacing our on-prem file server, I’d rather have no cloud and a file server behind our VPN. It’s just an ongoing disaster.

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    What I dislike is how Google drive changed the default home page to a “helpful” version where it suggests files that it thinks you want. I assume it’s in response to the issue you mentioned

    I keep my folders organized nicely, and I like knowing where to find something. If I need something often, I’ll add a shortcut to the front page, or bookmark the file.

    A page that randomly updates day to day is useless for me

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      3 months ago

      Yep, it does that. I just have a bookmark to my “main” folder which is one level down so I can skip the “homepage”.

      The “Shared with me” section is just as bad, though (thankfully) it doesn’t have recommendations (yet?)