We’ve normalized something absurd in modern offices. You need to send a 500 MB CAD file to a colleague three desks away. Both computers are connected to the same network. Logic says the file should go straight from one computer to the other.
Instead, you upload it to Dropbox, wait for the link, send the link in Slack, and wait again while your colleague downloads the same file. Or you discover that email won’t accept the attachment. Or you start guessing which shared folder has the right permissions.
The cloud promised to make work easier. For purely local file sharing, it often adds a trip nobody asked for.
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