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.

  • CafecitoHippo@lemm.eeEnglish
    81·
    1 day ago

    Dumb terminal concept was more what Chromebook was doing.

    I mean, for a lot of people they’re fine especially if they’re priced appropriately. Especially with a lot more software as a service out there. My problem is that all of them have a built in drop dead date on when they’re going to stop getting updates and there’s not really a great option for the devices post ChromeOS.

    ChromeOS certainly can be a good system. I still have my old CR-48 from when I got selected to test the OS and even when it was in its infancy, it was solid. I used it for a lot of my college career because it was better than my Asus eeePC which had Ubuntu on it.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
        1·
        20 minutes ago

        I have never bought a device I could not own completely and flash the rom with what I want. Except once I had iPhone 3 but it was easily jail broken, but I still feel dirty. How can someone think they own and control something I bought? There is something fundamentally wrong with that and I agree it should be illegal

      • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        8 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·
          4 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·
            3 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.