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Macs have FileVault and I use that.

There doesn't seem to be much of a downside other than potentially forgetting the recovery key.

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FDE VMs inside FDE hosts. 😎

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Currently setting up a new OS install with LUKS

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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @mo 7 Jun 2023

which OS?

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Arch Linux. Did use Manjaro before but I wanted to finally have the "real arch experience".

Currently trying to use nerd font icons for my dwm status bar

One day, I also want to try out a distro without systemd. Maybe gentoo

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I use Fedora and have been putting this issue off all the time. I should do it this weekend and encrypt the drive.

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I want to but i have concerns about performance loss and or increased power consumption and battery drain + more.

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My biggest concern was when I read this:

Warning: In any scenario, never use file system repair software such as fsck directly on an encrypted volume, or it will destroy any means to recover the key used to decrypt your files. Such tools must be used on the decrypted (opened) device instead.

-- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/dm-crypt/Encrypting_an_entire_system

That sounds pretty serious tbh but maybe I misunderstood something. volume != partition for example?

I'll make this a dedicated post so more stackers can see this


Done: #189430

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On modern hardware it is almost imperceptible

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yea they have hardware acceleration for that, and on older hardware you can use the new adiantum cipher

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