aside from privacy concern, who want this?

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

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.

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/... Fortunately web archive still preserve it. But, idk how long

if you just uncheck the button. you don't need to Visit about:config

aka Twitter

All of them https://support.microsoft.com/...

Bitwarden is okay and free

not really because twitter.com redirector still works properly

reminds me to EGS that does not want to be critized

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

lack of content from other competitors

Skype is suck nowadays. use Signal

all of the repo get 404. Get the latest backup here https://archive.softwareheritage.org/... https://archive.softwareheritage.org/...

Use this workaround https://www.cnet.com/...

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.