aside from privacy concern, who want this?

the thing is: it means that your hard drive gets encrypted. However, when that gets encrypted, besides creating a key to decrypt it, everything works perfectly. You then use that computer for 5 years and again, works great. But then the fan on the CPU gets clogged with dust and the CPU overheats and dies. No big deal, you just grab the hard drive and move it into your new computer, or you hook it up with USB to copy everything over to the new one. And that is the moment you find out it was encrypted 5 years ago. You didn’t store the key anywhere but on that disk. You can only read it with that original computer hardware because the key was made to lock that drive to that exact computer that died. And you slowly figure out that every photo, every document, everything critical to you is now protected from you and you can’t get it back.

Just as fun is making configuration changes just to upgrade your PC. Because Bitlocker uses the hardware in your computer to generate that key, some hardware changes will trigger it to need that key. Same situation where you need to revert the change to get your data.

Finally, now we need to actually bring home the issue. Drop that change into the lap of someone you know that uses a computer, but doesn’t understand the inner working of them. Maybe that’s your grandma, parent, or siblings. All of a sudden they upgrade and now have a Windows 11 time-bomb that could randomly lock them out of every file on their computer… that’s the real issue here.

Also a headache for the repair industry. If during repair the bios gets reset or the motherboard swapped, you’ll need the key to be able to boot in to windows again. And your customer is probably NOT aware.

Bitlocker is important for companies. They can have hundreds or thousands of laptops that contain files with intellectual property that could really damage the company. Laptops get stolen all the time and should be protected at the highest levels. But for normal people’s computers, the higher risk for losing data will be Bitlocker. That’s what makes this such a bad idea.

this one? https://gist.github.com/BrockA/2625891

For privacy reason. local account is the best

So, what are the alternatives?

Yeah, Gitlab take down the repo without notice. Github even gave the warning letter first before take down the repo

https://web.archive.org/web/20240309174752/https://github.com/pineappleEA/pineapple-src Fortunately web archive still preserve it. But, idk how long

aka Twitter

Use this workaround https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/get-google-search-results-without-ai-ads-or-anything-but-links/

All of them https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/april-23-2024-kb5036980-os-builds-22621-3527-and-22631-3527-preview-5a0d6c49-e42e-4eb4-8541-33a7139281ed

lack of content from other competitors

all of the repo get 404. Get the latest backup here https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean.git https://archive.softwareheritage.org/browse/origin/directory/?origin_url=https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-chrome-clean.git

Bitwarden is okay and free

The question is will this encrypt other partition that have other OS such as Linux automatically especially for dual boot users?

For console, Switch is the market leader in Japan

not really because twitter.com redirector still works properly

We can see a lot from Suyu cases that also on Gitlab it just DMCAd without warning to the maintainer compared to uyouplus and saikou that hosted on Github with proper warning message. So, users have a brief time to fork it or download the latest version. So, Github is much more humane.

it is possible for sideload ipa with trollstore/maplesign/signulous

Yes, it works on Firefox Android and Ios. So, that article is not 100% correct

that is why I mean it is very popular in Japan. it is in top 3 right? the highest in Asia?

I think make ad run faster can circumvent this. wdyt? https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=e https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en

not easy as it sounds because Whatsapp is defacto messaging app in many countries like India, brazil, indonesia etc

on IOS we can do that as well with trollstore and signalous/maplesign

It is possible with ublock origin or browser extension

not everyone is tech-savvy like folks on Lemmy. you can tell that to your grandma or your parents to do that to do regular backup. That is why it could cause a headache for repair business

why? as a 5 years subscriber I am fine with that and they said they don't want to mess with it and as long as Proton make it better. I am fine though.

Some people already archive it https://reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1dfls77/since_i_know_500000_books_was_deleted_i_decide_to/?sort=new

Really? So, Gmail account is a must? outlook.com/simplelogin alias not allowed?

Ublock origin, tampermonkey and bitwarden

with trollstore and signalous/maplesign you don't need to resign anymore. it is just normal phone without jailbreak same like Android

yeah, as long as old.reddit.com still untouched. it is bearable atm.

the thing about jdownloader it does not grab url and transfer it immediately to download manager with extension like IDM does.

https://new.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1ct5mpt/heres_how_to_disable_googles_new_forced_ai/?sort=new

https://www.docomo.ne.jp/english/product/feature_phone/. they are still on sale and it is still popular for old people and business persons. Hell, even some flip phone model are even water resistant.

you cannot stay on win10 forever though. deadline is approaching

no free imap support is a dealbreaker

I use Java version of XDM and it work flawlessly on brave and firefox

AI Overviews is PITA

Yes ublock origin can do that with simple script

In case you miss infinite scroll. There is browser extension and JS script for that