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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent. At a billion-device scale the climate costs are insane. (www.thatprivacyguy.com)
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[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Don't even bother with 11. At all.
I bought a win11 laptop, didn't create any accounts just installed the os... Then microsoft locked me out of the laptop with thier new bitlocker bs. It won't even let me factory reset the effing thing.

Switched to linux and im happy. It's just a steam deck, but it's still a better pc than the bit brick.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

Were you able to get your bitlocker key from your Microsoft account or save it when bitlocker activated? IIRC you can use that key to access the drive from a live Linux USB, get all your files off, then just install said Linux over the encrypted Windows install (which you should be able to do even if you don’t have the key).

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

There is no key. There's no bitlocker account and theres no Microsoft account.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

The key is created when bitlocker activates, if bitlocker is on then there is a key. It’s the same as the password you create when you encrypt your Linux disk, it just creates a stupid long one for you so you will be inclined to make an account to save it rather than just remembering it like a password.

[–] TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

Well theres no MS account, and there's no way past the bitlocker screen, so... Its a bit-brick