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Cake day: March 8th, 2024

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  • No they do not have copies of every Bitlocker key.

    Bitlocker by default creates a 48-bit recovery code that can be used to unlock an encrypted drive. If you run Windows with a personal Microsoft account it offers to backup that code into your Microsoft account in case your system needs recovered. The FBI submitted a supoena to request the code for a person’s encrypted drive. Microsoft provided it, as required by law.

    Bitlocker does not require that key be created, and you don’t have to save it to Microsoft’s cloud.

    This is just a case of people not knowing how things work and getting surprised when the data they save in someone else’s computer is accessed using the legal processes.



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    Updated it right before I built Wine.

    Using the Steam release of Fallout 3 goty. Created a clean wine prefix, configured it for Windows 7. Installed .Net 3.5 sp1 and Visual C++ runtimes for 2008 and 2010 just in case. Installed latest DXVK with winetricks. Modified the system.reg with regedit to add key and string for the installed path.

    After that I was able to run the Launcher, set it to windowed and launch it.

    Have spent about 5 hours so far on current play through. Has crashed a couple of times.

















  • Getting it up and running was as simple as swapping my AMD RX580 for the Intel Arc A770. The drivers are open source and built into the kernel and Mesa. It picked up and started working without issues.

    Its ran every game I have smoothly at max settings. I haven’t had to turn down the graphics settings on a game yet. Though to be fair, the most graphic intensive game I play is No Man’s Sky.

    Only issue I encountered was when I first got it I had to tell No Man’s Sky to use the Xe Vulkan support, instead of trying to use the old Intel HD version. Since then I’ve reinstalled No Man’s Sky a few times. Newer updates properly detect the Vulkan support.

    I was impressed enough with its performance that I bought a second to upgrade my wife’s computer. She has been using that system to do modeling in Blender and hasn’t had any issues with it that I’ve heard of.

    I have been quite happy with the Intel Arc card. If they are still making them when I do my next upgrade I will likely get another.