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If you want to do away with any protection you have with opting in to a security measure, like typing in a password, why don't you just reinstall and not select the encryption option?

Not requiring a password, or automatically entering a password to decrypt the filesystem, is essentially the same as not having encryption.

Decide which you want: Security or convenience. You cannot have both.

I trusted my government to protect my info, and now I have LifeLock for life because of several breaches on their part. If data is stored, it is virtually certain some portion of it will get leaked.

That's an insult little dick energy

Lol

My account was four years old. There was no way I was going to do it by hand. It took PDS 8 hours to get churn through all that crap.

I had been meaning to delete my account earlier for opsec reasons, but just hadn't gotten around to it.

I know it's only token resistance at this point because others have found their comments from Google searches even after their accounts have been deleted, but Power Delete Suite is busy churning away on mine right now.

Pretty happy about my procrastination driving my decision to not put up a bunch of my Star Wars DnD modules and campaign notes.

Sigh, unzips

I would suggest, whatever you try, that you make sure to write down your windows key and then deauthorize your PC. That way, if it doesn't work out and you want/need to go back, you can reinstall windows and not deal with the unlicensed copy BS.

ANOTHER series I just remembered and highly recommend is the Unincorporated Man series. I think there are 4-5 books in the series. Pretty good IMHO. Similar to The Expanse, it's the Inners vs the Belters, and explores personal liberty and person hood from the perspective of owning "shares" of yourself like a company.

The conflict is awesome, and two military strategy geniuses duke it out in a Legends of the Galactic Heroes sort of way--one has all the resources and latest tech, the other is scrappy and has to deal with extreme resources shortages. Awesome story.

Wholeheartedly agree. I've read the first and second, and liked the first the most. Still planning to read the third eventually.

I also should mention I "read" them on audible, and the narrator was good too.

The only other one I've attempted to read by Niel Stephenson has been Cryptonomicon. It seemed to get way, way into the weeds and is over a thousand pages. It was in my 20's that I attempted it and I only made it half way through.

His work is top tier and highly regarded by many as thoroughly researched.

Going to have to check this one out!