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Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by yesman@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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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.

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[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week 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

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week 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.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I've got an entry level desktop from 2009 I'm gonna throw arch on and run some stuff

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Sounds good! I hope it's fun.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

I'm working on the boot loader at the moment

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