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  • Uiop@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Do you encrypt your drives and why or why not?
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    2 months ago

    i’d really like to. but there is ONE big problem:

    Keyboard layouts.

    seriously

    I hate having to deal with that. when I set up my laptop with ubuntu, I tried at least 3 thymes to make it work, but no matter what I tried I was just locked out of my brand-new system. it cant just be y and z being flipped, I tried that, maybe it was the french keyboard layout (which is absolutely fucked) or something else, but it just wouldnt work.

    On my mint PC I have a similar problem with the default layout having weird extra keys and I just sort of work around that, because fuck dealing with terminals again. (when logged in it works, because I can manually change it to the right one.)

    Now I do have about a TerraByte of storage encrypted, just for the… more sensitive stuff…

    While dealing with the problems I stumbled across a story of a user who had to recover their data using muscle-memory, a broken keyboard, the same model of keyboard and probably a lot of patience. good luck to that guy.