Better if they don't leave your device in the first place, encryption should always be considered a last line of defence, just because some encryption is unbreakable today, it may be easily broken in the future as breakthroughs in computers and mathematics advance.

Instead of paying for cloud backups just buy some hard drives, it's cheaper in the long run too.

What the shit? Ooh, I need to test this on my work computer!

This is why I decided to dual-boot Ubuntu and Win10 until I'm fully comfortable on Linux. Every single thing about Win11 just makes my skin crawl.

Last week it was the news that they're eliminating methods to install the OS at all without being signed into a MS account. The degree of snooping had no plausible explanation other than for Microsoft to harvest and sell your data.

Preventing their shitty brute force protection from allowing someone to get a users MS account password because they are FORCING users to use a non-local account?

The computer would have to store a hash locally to authenticate that account offline, so this is very likely why this is here. Because they've enabled a path to brute forcing their cloud accounts without their servers knowing.

The windows shithole is just layers of bad design all the way down.

Yeah but they are taking your data from the laptop your mum bought yesterday and put all the family vacation pictures on. Mum didn't know she had to kill off OneDrive or Microsoft will hoover up and monetise your memories.

Australians

Yes

Both are good

Yeah it's in awful taste; thanks for pointing it out. For those who are not familiar with the art installation: https://www.jmberlin.de/en/shalekhet-fallen-leaves

But if we feed enough data to the AI slop machine, one day you can get your own Knight Rider car! /s

Now you can easily find all the porn videos you have collected of any of your friends!

exactly

default: on

user: explicitly turns off

random "update": defaults back on

Now wait 1 year

Veracrypt is intended for local file system encryption. Do not use it for cloud encryption. You will need to reupload the entire encrypted file that encapsulates all your encrypted files every time you make a change, which eats a lot of date/bandwidth as it increases in size. Source: https://www.cryfs.org/comparison#veracrypt

You probably want something like cryfs or cryptomater, like the other commenter mentioned. gocryptfs might work if you do not care about Microsoft trying to guess the contents of your files based on their metadata/file size and how that changes over time. (See watermarking attacks for details)

Veracrypt is great. Cryptomator works on Android as well.

I've used veracrypt for years, starting back on Windows and I still use it since I moved to Linux. I don't use all of the features for it but what I have are encrypted volumes that exist on hard disks as a single file, which when opened with veracrypt, show themselves as a new disk in the system.

There's probably better ways to encrypt data on onedrive, but you could probably create one of those encrypted volumes to store on onedrive.