Shitpost today, reality once the stock price dips.
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.
https://codinglap.com/how-to-manage-and-stop-automatic-bitlocker-encryption-in-windows-11/
What an actual nightmare!
This happened to my new laptop. It’s a fucking brick.
We in the tech community like to call that a perfect Linux receptacle
I’m definitely on team linux now
Every new machine in the last two years has come with bitlocker on. I’ve started reloading them all.
FOR THE GRACE, FOR THE MIGHT OF THE LORD!
This guy is kidding, do not listen to this guy. If you are a beginner and want arch use cachyOS
And if you are a beginner and don’t want arch , use nobara.
Do people get Arch as their first distro and succeed in using it?
Depends alot on the person
I went straight to arch but i also program and system admin so… I dont feel hurt having to read
Unless we’re talking SteamOS or similar, then it just sounds like disaster waiting to happen.
Some do. Not many.
My college roommate told me to wipe my os and install arch not thinking I would do it but I did, and that was 14 years ago. It’s a fun experience but these days I just wanna throw a fedora ublue distro on stuff and use that.
EndeavourOS was my first, but not the same as naked Arch I guess
Pfft, amateur. My first was some version of red hat (2? 2.1?) that took me almost a week to download, then I had to compile it, and then load onto, like, eight floppies.
I can’t even tell you how many attempts I made before I actually succeeded in getting it to install, but it was one of the more traumatic experiences of my teenage years.
So far arch is my first and only distro. I moved to linux a year ago and decided to just jump in with Arch. I havent had any major issues.
I don’t know. I did.
Mint sucks. Zorin or Bazzite, cachyOS
You can have your personal preference, but Mint is fantastic. Especially for switching from windows, but not only.
Fair enough
Blasphemy, Mint is amazing.
Zorin user here. As far as Linux goes, Zorin is good. Mint is also good.
The amount of service calls I get from people locked out of their own windows computers…
This seems like something they would try
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.
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.
Yep. That’s what I was referring to. I also didn’t know they were semi legit. Lol. That’s kinda ridiculous.
No I never paid or even considered paying. I just got some fix from somewhere to get rid of it.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say “semi legit”, but they know how to run a business 😅
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.
Ubik ahh fucking society
Yeah, we’re headed toward Ubik rules alright.
