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• Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware

  TL;DR: bitlocker does not like grub Full story: Months ago I installed fedora on my desktop, dual booting Windows 11. In all this time I never had the need to boot into windows. I remembered that it worked fine after install, good, and then I forgot about that. Today I needed a specific windows only software, so at grub I chose the microsoft bootloader and… BITLOCKER. Huh? Bitlocker? Me? What? Searched frantically for that decryption password in my keepass, did not find. What?? How???...

• Microsoft punishes idiots who purchased a "perpetual" license of Office 2019 for Mac by disabling it next month, pirates unaffected

  A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it’s unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for. So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac “perpetual” will lose access to it next month. The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future. Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished Good job 👍🏻