If the password is long 15 characters that means you use a password manager. At that point just put the bitlocker password in the password manager

Images patched by Rufus can definitely pass secureboot, as long the bootloader wasn’t touched. Secureboot only checks the signature of the bootloader, not every single file of the operating system, otherwise it will take hours to boot

Plus Rufus touches some XML read by the installer, doesn’t crack the executables

Did you read the news about how nowadays is almost impossible to use Windows 11 without a Microsoft account?

When/if any user uses the computer with a Microsoft account, then the bitlocker decryption key is silently and automatically uploaded to Microsoft servers as a “safe backup” 😉

It happened TWICE on my Lenovo laptop, when it automatically installed a firmware update from windows update

In Windows 11, if the main user logs in with a Microsoft account (which is mandatory unless you do some hacks during the install), it automatically encrypts the main drive by default without asking the user consent and uploads the decryption key to Microsoft servers (again, without user consent, but usually this is appreciated because sometimes automatic BIOS updates via windows update wipe the tpm and keep all your data at ransom.)

Wasn’t this by design? Otherwise why keeping the decryption keys on servers located in the united states’?

Now i got a “oops I tried to squeeze too much money, let me try again” message that pisses me off even more

I hate prices that change according to the perspection on how much the client can afford or pay

I also interpret it like that. But then when i went to pay the $175, they kept chatting with me for over two days (“exact size as stated without customization, right?” yes - “same color?” yes - “same material of description?” yes) to finally say that the price it’s $1750 instead and the initial quote was completely BS, just to take leads. I wouldn’t think that getting leads misleading customers by a factor of ten is a good idea, but if 90% of sellers there do that, maybe is working

No. They clearly state 500 pieces for 0.35 each (which is too cheap)

Then you send the order. They tell you ok wait tomorrow, then they ask irrelevant questions then 60 hours after the request they tell you it’s not $200, it’s $2000, oops

Meanwhile when you send the order your phone and your email is given to dozens of sellers in total disregard of privacy laws and you start to receive spam via WhatsApp and email (I registered using [email protected] and I receive spam there so it’s definitely not a coincidence)

I wouldn’t buy that even if it wasn’t banned, locked bootloader and spyware preinstalled at all levels

Some PM: “it’s Patch Tuesday, we must push the monthly update or the users will revolt, push it at exactly 10:00!”

“But we didn’t finish the tests!”

PM: “Push. It. Right. Now.”

With the latest windows 11 update they broke the shutdown feature

I can’t imagine any single company licensing this stuff

install tldr and then you have easier commands

> tldr dd

  dd

  Convert and copy a file.
  See also: `caligula`.
  More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dd-invocation.html.

  - Make a bootable USB drive from an isohybrid file (such as archlinux-xxx.iso) and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=path/to/file.iso of=/dev/usb_drive status=progress

  - Clone a drive to another drive with 4 MiB block size and flush writes before the command terminates:
    sudo dd bs=4M conv=fsync if=/dev/source_drive of=/dev/dest_drive

  - Generate a file with a specific number of random bytes by using kernel random driver:
    dd bs=100 count=1 if=/dev/urandom of=path/to/random_file

  - Benchmark the write performance of a disk:
    dd bs=1M count=1024 if=/dev/zero of=path/to/file_1GB

  - Create a system backup, save it into an IMG file (can be restored later by swapping if and of), and show the progress:
    sudo dd if=/dev/drive_device of=path/to/file.img status=progress

  - Check the progress of an ongoing dd operation (run this command from another shell):
    progress

AND there are many “free” tracking apps where people are tricked to give their valid tracking codes to see the shipment status. The owner then resells those valid tracking codes in bulk to scammers

Central Italy here. For the first time in this decade I found ice on the windshield. I remember in the 90s it was thick ice for 3 months and I was always late for school because it took too much time to scrape it

Already before the LLMs for me it was the last chance before I would post over there. The desperation move. It was too toxic and I would always get pissed to get my question closed because too similar or too easy or whatever. Hey I wasted 15 minutes to type that, if the other question solved the problem I wouldn’t post again…

In the beginning it wasn’t like that…

I went to watch my stack overflow account and the first questions that I posted (and that gave me 2000 karma) would have been almost all of them rejected and removed

I liked hyprland for about one month this August, wasted a lot to make the configuration how I liked. Then they changed the config suddenly without warning. Installed GNOME as a fallback because I needed to do actual work, wasted another weekend to fix the configuration. Nice, I used it for some other time and… broken again within a month. At least deprecate the configuration and give one version of tolerance…

False, it’s made in China, but from Renault itself as Renault kze

You need to mount / as /mnt/disk in the VM to have the trick work