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[recursivedoubts]

Yes, also the curse of modern desktop os’s trying to trick people into storing data in the cloud. The notion of just having files somewhere accessible and organized in a reasonable manner isn’t clear to many (most?) of my students.

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Last I checked Google Drive shows everything as files in folders, just like a desktop OS.

And as someone who had their house (whole town actually) burn down recently, cloud storage saved all my data, thousands of baby photos, etc...