Thanks for the heads up!!

[insert fake tears here] Oh no! Anyway…

Here’s my situation. The og switch battery is fried. I have a mario kart cart for the switch and when I was deciding which v2 option to get, I went without the mario kart world since I think I have played mario kart a handful of times and none of my family or friends have it or play it.

Star Raiders for the Atari 400/800.

“Hey mother fucker!”

I see your edit, and would like to comment that you also haven’t mentioned which rpi you were going to try this on. I recently wanted to set up a quick little pc using a rpi, just so I could browse the web and maybe watch some videos. Tried a rpi2 I had laying around. No way. Moved to a rpi3, and while it would load most pages, youtube was a bust as it completely maxed out the ram and swap. I then went to a rpi4 with 8gb and it has been doable, kind of. Sometimes it’s pretty choppy with the video, but basic web browsing is ok. I did try my plex the other day through the browser and it was barely acceptable. Lots of stuttering and sometimes just hangs, but that’s not the ideal way to view plex on anything. Haven’t tried my rpi5 yet, but my point to all this is that I think you are on the right track setting it up on a spare pc he has. If you had given him a rpi as a ‘desktop’ replacement it might have just soured him on the whole idea.

I work in IT and I get that, but we also should have some reasonable expectations here for how a program should handle updates. Not losing key configuration files is definitely one of those.

Totally agree. Cura has bit me more than once with losing my settings. To Lmaydev’s point, it’s hard to “back things up” when you don’t know where the settings are stored and sometimes you don’t know you need to be Sherlock Holmes until it’s too late.

writeable. AFAIK with bitlocker they are hashed and salted and therefore would be corrupted if you opened again with manipulated data.

No problem. This part right here might be enough to cause concern. Lets say it isn’t a hacker, but just someone dicking around with his linux os, and manages to accidentally write to the bitlocker drive. I don’t know enough about bitlocker, but writing random data to an encrypted file is a great way to corrupt it. So if nothing else he could possibly corrupt his work os. And then hope that they buy the old “I don’t know how it broke.”

When I was making this all up in my head, I was thinking that if I was a hacker and wanted to just mess with people, I wouldn’t need to write a huge os, just overwrite his os with something like a DBAN iso. Something small, but again any tampering with the drive would likely invalidate the bitlocked os. So even just a dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/{os drive} and that’s all she wrote.

Here’s a scenario for you. His laptop running his linux os gets hacked. Said hacker discovers another drive with windows or an encrypted partition. Now he could sit there and try and de-encrypt it, or if he has the time and inclination just completely overwrite it with whatever he wanted. OP finishes what he is doing and reboots back into what he expects to be his work provided Windows OS, and sees some error message, or maybe nothing at all. In the background the hackers OS which is now running just leads him on while it’s doing what it needs to do, like scanning the network it might be connected to. Or prompting him for a id/pw.
Regardless, the linux os will have access to the drive the Windows os is loaded onto. Now what happens to it may or may not be relevant, but it will be a writeable drive, therefore it will be suspect to manipulation.

And by the way kids, lets just say he causes a breach in some way, shape, or fashion, this could go from him just trying to get to the internet on his work provided laptop to him facing jail time. Depending on the nature of his work and the data they have, it could be a law that ends up broken and he could face the consequences. None of that is worth it when he could literally buy a new laptop for cheap. I bet it’s less than the hourly rate for the lawyer he might need.

That would work if you had control over what data they collected. At this point they are collecting data that you don’t get to see, and you have no say in what they do with it. I realize people signed up for this, but I think they have also been duped or at least denied the ability to even understand what gets collected. You can’t pee into a pool you aren’t allowed to even get near.

And we CAN make a change but we don’t know how.

Start with “stop using their software.” If they have no data to sell, their company is worthless, but the people you claim care so much won’t stop. I have heard so many excuses as to why people “need” social media its maddening, and yet somehow I manage to survive without sites like facebook, etc. I am only on lemmy as an anonymous contributor, and if I feel like things are headed towards where they are with other social media I will drop it like a hot potato. Delete your accounts, and stop giving them data.

and I would bet that when they take their laptop home they would not hesitate to boot it up for personal use. And the people working remotely I would wager use it even more.

Are you willing to bet your job or career on this? If so, proceed. Otherwise, I would heed the multiple warnings given in this thread. But then again, you might just be one of those fuck around and find out types. If so, be sure and drop in here and let us know how well it went.

We that’s some shit. I often use that to get info off of pages that I won’t be clicking on normally.

It was a funny comment. If you have limited mobility and can’t just leave the house, and I am nearby, I would be happy to help you out. Not gonna dox myself in public but lets start with a general area, central Tx. PM me on here.

Make sure you get the right burn cream when you are out!!

I am casting Matthew McConaughey as Strickland…

Not sure when anyone ever thought IBM cared about employees, except maybe 40-50 years ago. They have been steadily fucking people over. I wouldn’t shed a single tear if that company went out of business.

Hey Jean, word on the streets is that he absolutely detests the fact that I don’t own a 2005-06 Ford GT.