Between storage expenses, AI bloat, and privacy concerns, I've finally decided to ditch Google Drive for hosting my own documents on my NAS.

Agentic AI tools like OpenClaw promise powerful automation, but a single email was enough to hijack my dangerously obedient ...

My PC became the hub, and the cloud became optional.

My Google Drive was almost full, so instead of deleting files, I saved space by converting PDFs to Google Docs, compressing large files, transferring file ownership, and cleaning hidden junk like ...

BitLocker encryption keys provided to law enforcement by Microsoft raise concerns about digital privacy as encrypted data ...

When you sync WhatsApp with your Google account, your data is automatically backed up to the cloud regularly. You can restore your messages if you accidentally clear ...

UPDATE (January 29, 2026): Google Drive has finally received a full Material 3 Expressive redesign, what’s left of it, that is. Read more about it at the end of the article. Summary: Google Drive is ...

Over the past few months, a large-scale cloud storage subscription scam campaign has been targeting users worldwide with repeated emails falsely warning recipients that their photos, files, and ...

Like a doctor spotting a worrying test result during a routine exam, Gemini’s Plex check had unearthed a critical system ...

Google Photos isn't the most intuitive service. The way files are stored locally and in the cloud, navigating the library can be laggy and inefficient. Also, Google does a poor job explaining how the ...

Sam Altman wants you to know he wasn’t mad. Altman was about to launch into a diatribe about the commercials that Anthropic, the maker of ChatGPT competitor Claude, rolled out for the Super Bowl.

I replaced cloud storage subscriptions with something I actually control.