I wanted to make the same joke! Nice that you noticed it too lol

This was the exact same situation I experienced with my old Surface 6. Started to look into Linux firmware on Surface devices and deactivated secure boot because it wouldn’t boot Ventoy at all and do nothing, so I figured to try again with no secure boot. It still didn’t work so I turned it on again, but was then greeted with this Bitlocker screen which I didn’t even know it had activated up until this point. I set up a local account so I had no key to reset or something and was literally not able to do anything besides reinstalling the entire system.

Luckily I had nothing important on it lol

Weirdly the activation was saved on the MS servers so I didn’t need to do that again at least (was a preinstalled system so I wouldn’t have known the activation key anyways, I thought “When it doesn’t work I’ll switch to Linux fully because I’m not paying for that garbage system”).

After I updated Ventoy I was able to boot again even with secure boot on, there seems to have been an issue with that specific version.

I had Windows on my device since I bought it (around 2018) only upgraded to W11. It never mentioned anything about Bitlocker before this incident so if I had important stuff on it it would have been so over. Well, never save important files on Windows without backup is what I got out of it

This caused me literally bigger problems than my switch to Arch Linux after having only used Windows the entire time xD

Immer diese Sozialschmarotzer

At first glance it looks like the squirrel has got a joint and a bread xD

We got ADHD 2 before GTA VI 🗿🚬

Refreshing peppermint liquor with chocolate & cream taste

How Many Times Do We Have to Teach You This Lesson, Old Man?

Neurotypical cokroaches

Noo don’t eat the RAM! I still need it for Blendeeer!

This would convince me to vote for Biden! And I’m not even american

Every time I read something new about the new Windows. I’m really glad I’ve switched to Linux and figured how to set up, use and debug it already. With this knowledge I never want to go back. Even PC Gaming is no problem anymore with Proton, Lutris etc. The only thing I needed to watch out for was to get an AMD graphics card (NVIDIA is slowly getting there too hopefully), but I needed a new PC anyway so it was the perfect time

Then everybody will just argue what’s the best distro/desktop environment/kernel etc. instead xD

I think he’s doing too much Ketamine and was in the k-hole again. The richest man in the world thinks he’s “the resistance”. Against what? Himself? The best satire writes itself I guess. It’s clear that he’s just trying to let people believe he’s on their side. But when it comes to workers rights, naaahh not part anymoree lmaaoo, only enough for edgy posting on “X” (Twitter). Then the poor people can f themselves. Or his family with the mines in africa, he comes from a rebel household. But when a family member is not like what the social expectation was 50 years ago then she will be banished and badmouthed. He’s the one fighting against the system, the rich corrupt elite … oh wait. Idk how you can reach this level of delusion. Maybe he really didn’t consider the safer use rules while doing k and overdid it

More than some google bs. They’re open source, you could theoretically look at all the executed commands if you’re not trusting it enough. Sure it could be another binary, but I think most people doing something FOSS (meaning freetime invested not for profit, out of hobby/interest/inspiration) are reasonable enough to not do stupid stuff like that. The way big corps are trying to overtake FOSS projects is the danger. Microsoft bought GitHub to get access to all of the community built software, we should diversify, I’m agreeing. Only a few big companies have taken the internet hostage, we need to free it again. As a community, normally the internet should be a place of plurality, not a few big sites that are the main hubs for everything. That’s what it was intended for

The best way to get rid oft the spy crap entirely is to get a pixel phone and flashing GrapheneOS (de-googled Android). Dw, it’s not that hard to do, there’s a good manual. Sure you need to find alternatives to google apps, but so far I could get replacement apps for almost everything FOSS from F-Droid store. Some apps cry for play services from time to time, but only a few of them won’t work at all without them. Most of the time it can be ignored. You are able to install a defused sandboxed version if something really needs it tho. If you need an app from play store you can use Aurora Store (Foss play store client). Even E-SIM works without problems. And the best is 7 years guaranteed updates starting with the phone release. The a series is quite cheap (got Pixel 8a for ~460€). I can only recommend this setup.