Because most of that data is synced to the cloud, icloud or Google photos.

Ok but like… given what I was hearing from those scenes that was probably for the best

Good news, you can use cryptsetup to do it in place! https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/444931/is-there-a-way-to-encrypt-disk-without-formatting-it

Because when shit breaks nobody wants to hear that their data is gone forever

No shit, it’s been case law since the 90s (Bleem, Connectix). The recent cases haven’t been about emulation, but decryption keys lifted from the BIOS.

Don’t put your personal info in a work account, regardless of whether it’s local or cloud.

Yeah, delivery is cheap because the drivers are treated like shit: https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/trending-china/article/3274864/desperate-china-courier-begs-guard-mercy-knees-after-toppling-fence-sparking-protest

Kind of like how BYD cars are cheap because they’re built with slave labor and no environmental protection.

Don’t get me wrong, the US has similar problems. But there’s more to the story than just cheap eggs.

When you’ve got bad shit in your blood, the most effective remedy is to just remove some blood and let the body make some new, clean blood.

Yeah probably.

It’s only difficult because you’re making it difficult. There is a balance between security and convenience, and you choose where you want to land on that spectrum. If that means Google products are useful to you, then just use them.

Good luck getting any of them to actually crawl it though. Most models are trained on datasets like reddit comments, not by crawling sites like search indexers.

And that’s why net neutrality is important!

OEM license keys have been stored in the BIOS for several versions now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Locked_Pre-installation

For 99% of drivers, the on-disc ones are enough to get up and running, and as long as you have an Internet connection you can download any that aren’t on-disc. The remaining 1% can be obtained directly from the OEM. Modem Windows is very good about this.

You can just reinstall base Windows at that time, either plain or your OEM version if they provide it. There’s not much use in preserving the current image.

The article also says he gave multiple stories.

The OS isn’t really the deciding factor here.

No, a dd image is just a raw stream of bits. It doesn’t care about filesystems, neither inside nor outside the file.

Manipulative algorithms, yes.

Use the one cable. The two rails might experience a difference in voltage, which could be bad.

In the real world, it’ll work fine at least 90% of the time, but it’s easier to just use one cable on one rail.

Don’t worry about it, nobody says that any more. It died out with Gentoo.