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• wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  BitLocker sometimes turns on automatically, even on personal devices, without the user manually enabling it. This happens especially on systems connected with a Microsoft account, Windows Hello, or devices that meet Modern Standby requirements.

  codinglap.com/how-to-manage-and-stop-automatic-bi…

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What an actual nightmare!

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  • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This happened to my new laptop. It’s a fucking brick.

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    • bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We in the tech community like to call that a perfect Linux receptacle

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  • MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Every new machine in the last two years has come with bitlocker on. I’ve started reloading them all.

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• abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s time, OP.

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  • mr_anny@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s time. OP.

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    • Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s time to ascend, OP

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    • quips@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do not listen to this guy. If you are a beginner and want arch use cachy.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Do people get Arch as their first distro and succeed in using it?

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    • abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Way ahead of you, friend.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Mint sucks. Zorin or Bazzite, cachyOS

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    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You can have your personal preference, but Mint is fantastic. Especially for switching from windows, but not only.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Zorin user here. As far as Linux goes, Zorin is good. Mint is also good.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The amount of service calls I get from people locked out of their own windows computers…

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• Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This seems like something they would try

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  • daannii@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Remember those viruses that were around a few years back. They would lock your computer unless you paid like $100. I believe most said something like . This isn’t a legit copy of windows. Pay now or you can’t login.

    And if you paid. It was of course just stealing your credit card. But a lot of stupid people did it.

    I remember I got the virus once and I had to use another computer to get rid of it by making a boot flash stick. … I can’t recall the details but there wasn’t any way to fix it on the computer because it locked you out of everything.

    Maybe around during windows 7 of 8?

    Anyway. I bet that’s where they got the idea.

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    • jeffep@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you’re talking about ransomware (?), they are actually famous for great customer service and not stealing your credit card details. If people don’t trust them, noone will pay. So they offer live chats with real humans to help you set up a bitcoin wallet etc., to ensure smooth processing.

      The business has developed further though, not if you don’t pay they often threaten to release the data on the web.

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    • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t remember the viruses, I’ve never been a windows user.

      Thanks for the background on the meme, I would never have figured that out.

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• ashenone@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ubik ahh fucking society

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