Back in January Microsoft encrypted all my hard drives without saying anything. I was playing around with a dual boot yesterday and somehow aggravated Secureboot. So my C: panicked and required a 40 character key to unlock.

Your key is backed up to the Microsoft account associated with your install. Which is considerate to the hackers. (and saved me from a re-install) But if you’ve got an unactivated copy, local account, or don’t know your M$ account credentials, your boned.

Control Panel > System Security > Bitlocker Encryption.

BTW, I was aware that M$ was doing this and even made fun of the effected users. Karma.

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    If my Chromebook could run Linux or even pure Android, I’d probably use it way more often. But it being a locked down distro with android bolted on is useless to me.

    • I can’t really do anything major on it that I can on a cheap laptop
    • I can’t really use it for the same games or programs on Android, as the form factor really gets in the way, even in tablet mode.

    It feels like the worst of both worlds. It’s fine for people who use a laptop/OS as a bootloader to a web browser, its not fine for weirdos like me.

    • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      Funny thing is that a cheap netbook has stats that would be fine for anything we did in the 90’s maybe even some games too

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        The Chromebook I have, is overall fine. It runs ChromeOS pretty well, and most web pages don’t make me beg for more RAM or CPU. ChromeOS does a fine job, to the point I wonder if I ran Arch or something on it, it’s a crapshoot.

        I think most laptops these days, even the cheap ones, are probably fine when you run a light OS on em. I’ve used computers that were 10 years old and ran most things decently well.