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Microsoft secured my files! (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by 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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[–] 40 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They desperately wanted to eliminate personal computers and replace them with dumb terminals running over the net.

I don't know about that.

Dumb terminal concept was more what Chromebook was doing.

Microsoft is doing something even stupider.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I had an Intel Chromebox that I ran galliumOS on. The problem is locked bootloaders which should be illegal

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You could always put Linux on it. I believe there is a way to do that for most ChromeBooks nowadays.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think they want you to only use Windows and pay for cloud storage.

    By enforcing BitLocker and Secure Boot, they are trying to eliminate dual-booting (you don't need to dual-boot Windows/Linux anyway, as you can just use WSL2 /s).

    By enforcing disk encryption, in general, they try to force the use of cloud storage, by making data recovery nearly impossible. Most people are probably too lazy to buy external storage, and manually copy their files over.

    This guarantees 2 money streams. One from Windows's tracking/advertising and the other from OneDrive subscriptions.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Data recovery isn't impossible. You can easily back up the recovery key. This is just typical Microsoft shit design.

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/back-up-your-bitlocker-recovery-key-e63607b4-77fb-4ad3-8022-d6dc428fbd0d

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