living in a cloud-first, Microsoft-free future
Oh really, whose cloud? Oracle?
We don't even maintain on-premises servers
Ah, you're dependent on someone else's computers, someone else's network architecture.
That sounds awful.
Nope nope nope, need on-prem only data, on-prem user account control, on-prem domain, absolute positive control of all outbound network connections with as few of those as possible, and no dependence on someone else's monthly compute fees.
Local always, remote only when absolutely unavoidable, and then stripped to the bare minimum. I'll run my own NTP server so that only it has to reach outside for time updates, and every other local device can get time from it.
NO. CLOUD.