This is true, though I figured I’d mention it. ^^

I definitely have backups. And this explains it very well. Thank you. :)

Soooo what you’re saying is that that hi-lo driver no longer has a job, right?

Speaking as someone who doesn’t encrypt their desktop but is thinking about it:

you can’t share (readable) data over one’s home network if the sending PC is disk-encrypted?

For example, are you saying that if I send a video file from my PC, which is disk-encrypted, over LAN to my NAS, then the NAS would not be able to read said file?

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Or just a pipe.

That is a good reason to backup

This is true.

but has nothing to do with encryption.

I disagree with this. If you forget the password for decrypting your drive, then you will have lost “anything on the drive that’s important”. I know because it happened to me long ago, and so now I too have been wary of disk encryption ever since then.

Hey good luck and all. And I’m happy for you. Just be thankful you can. Most of us can’t.

Every kid from the 80s & 90s was taught* to believe that, so I don’t blame you.

&nsbp;

*By movies & books & games and shit, not by teachers. Well, maybe some teachers…

That bonzai was Japanese for “fire”, and therefore you should never shout “Bonzai!” in a theater.

...Yeah, I’m not sure what I was smoking either.

possibly even worse than r*ddit

Are you sure about that? I mean, I’m sure they’re shitty, but Reddit? That’s a pretty high bar to surpass, so if so, I’m impressed.

If your instance supports it, you should be able to find it under your account settings.

For example, this is how it is on the blahaj.zone instance, on desktop (it’s pretty much the same on the mobile site, just more horizontally compressed to fit on vertical screen orientations):

It’s quite fantastic actually, especially since my instance uses vaporwave-dark as its theme. 👍

Wow, this was a rollercoaster of emotions.

That stuff becomes a moot point once you have a decently working bureaucratic system (if and when). If you can ask for a digital certificate online, and get it in your email three days later, you’re not too worried about losing a copy.

Yeaaaaah, I see where you’re coming from, but no, I’m just gonna stick with a paper copy that I know is reliable instead of a theoretical bureaucratic system that could possibly be reliable if it were to exist but in no way does exist (at least in the US).

This is the government after all. I’d like to have a paper copy in case they fuck something up during a system update and “can’t find me in the system”. (This is not very likely, I admit, but I wouldn’t put it past them some days…)

Edit: Also, what if I don’t have three days and I need said document(s) as soon as possible? That’s where a hard copy comes in.

No problem. Philosophy can be fun! ^_^

As you should.

:P

Sorry, my bad. I meant more stuff like the birth certificate and other vital documents. I really should’ve specified.

(I swear I’m not a dumbass sometimes.)

Meanwhile, there’s me who just likes paper versions of this stuff because I like to be able to order a backup hard copy just in case something happens to the first one.

Edit: I’m a fucking dumbass. I was 100% aware they were talking about driver’s licenses, yet I was only referring to other vital documents like one’s birth certificate, and yet I didn’t make the connection in my brain. Apologies. :/

What’s obvious to you may not be obvious to other people?

Also, what’s obvious to you at one moment may not be obvious to you at another, simply because you’re thinking about the situation from a different angle.