HarmlessCake @ HarmlessCake @discuss.tchncs.de

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I wanted to make the same joke! Nice that you noticed it too lol

Yeah, but it seems we're out of luck

This was the exact same situation I experienced with my old Surface 6. Started to look into Linux firmware on Surface devices and deactivated secure boot because it wouldn't boot Ventoy at all and do nothing, so I figured to try again with no secure boot. It still didn't work so I turned it on again, but was then greeted with this Bitlocker screen which I didn't even know it had activated up until this point. I set up a local account so I had no key to reset or something and was literally not able to do anything besides reinstalling the entire system.

Luckily I had nothing important on it lol

Weirdly the activation was saved on the MS servers so I didn't need to do that again at least (was a preinstalled system so I wouldn't have known the activation key anyways, I thought "When it doesn't work I'll switch to Linux fully because I'm not paying for that garbage system").

After I updated Ventoy I was able to boot again even with secure boot on, there seems to have been an issue with that specific version.

I had Windows on my device since I bought it (around 2018) only upgraded to W11. It never mentioned anything about Bitlocker before this incident so if I had important stuff on it it would have been so over. Well, never save important files on Windows without backup is what I got out of it

This caused me literally bigger problems than my switch to Arch Linux after having only used Windows the entire time xD

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At first glance it looks like the squirrel has got a joint and a bread xD

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