dvdnet62

dvdnet62, 4 days ago

Yeah because Twitter is very popular in Japan.

dvdnet62, 3 days ago

that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?

dvdnet62, 6 days ago

The question is will this encrypt other partition that have other OS such as Linux automatically especially for dual boot users?

dvdnet62, 6 days ago

I mean for instance. I dual-boot Linux and W11 atm. For some reason my Windows 11 needs to be formatted back because of the virus or etc or SSD replacement with fresh installation of Windows11 and of course bitlocker will be activated automatically after WIndows have been reinstalled it back from the scratch. Will this affect my other ext4 or Btrfs OS partition? or do I need to back up of my Linux important files on that partition before W11 mess up my Linux?

dvdnet62, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

the thing is: it means that your hard drive gets encrypted. However, when that gets encrypted, besides creating a key to decrypt it, everything works perfectly. You then use that computer for 5 years and again, works great. But then the fan on the CPU gets clogged with dust and the CPU overheats and dies. No big deal, you just grab the hard drive and move it into your new computer, or you hook it up with USB to copy everything over to the new one. And that is the moment you find out it was encrypted 5 years ago. You didn’t store the key anywhere but on that disk. You can only read it with that original computer hardware because the key was made to lock that drive to that exact computer that died. And you slowly figure out that every photo, every document, everything critical to you is now protected from you and you can’t get it back.

Just as fun is making configuration changes just to upgrade your PC. Because Bitlocker uses the hardware in your computer to generate that key, some hardware changes will trigger it to need that key. Same situation where you need to revert the change to get your data.

Finally, now we need to actually bring home the issue. Drop that change into the lap of someone you know that uses a computer, but doesn’t understand the inner working of them. Maybe that’s your grandma, parent, or siblings. All of a sudden they upgrade and now have a Windows 11 time-bomb that could randomly lock them out of every file on their computer… that’s the real issue here.

Also a headache for the repair industry. If during repair the bios gets reset or the motherboard swapped, you’ll need the key to be able to boot in to windows again. And your customer is probably NOT aware.

Bitlocker is important for companies. They can have hundreds or thousands of laptops that contain files with intellectual property that could really damage the company. Laptops get stolen all the time and should be protected at the highest levels. But for normal people’s computers, the higher risk for losing data will be Bitlocker. That’s what makes this such a bad idea.

dvdnet62, 6 days ago

not everyone is tech-savvy like folks on Lemmy. you can tell that to your grandma or your parents to do that to do regular backup. That is why it could cause a headache for repair business

dvdnet62, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

well, the thing is not everyone want to have their PC connected to MS account for privacy reason

dvdnet62, 7 days ago

I use Java version of XDM and it work flawlessly on brave and firefox

dvdnet62, 7 days ago

the thing about jdownloader it does not grab url and transfer it immediately to download manager with extension like IDM does.

dvdnet62, 11 days ago

Really? So, Gmail account is a must? outlook.com/simplelogin alias not allowed?

dvdnet62, 11 days ago

yeah, as long as old.reddit.com still untouched. it is bearable atm.

dvdnet62, 12 days ago

web.archive.org/web/…/pineapple-srcFortunately web archive still preserve it. But, idk how long

dvdnet62, 16 days ago

Kubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives are okay. they still use apt/flatpak on their software center

dvdnet62, 16 days ago

as long you stayed away from Ubuntu GNOME made by canonical and stick to other Ubuntu derivatives like Kubuntu,Xubuntu etc. they are good and stable distros without forced snap (I know Thunderbird,Chromium and Firefox got snapped because of the backend side. So, this is not their fault and you can switch to other ppas to mitigate this) and their software center app like discover still prioritise apt and flatpak.

dvdnet62, 17 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

Ublock origin, tampermonkey and bitwarden