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type_wildI finally went ahead and installed the VPN client I subscribed to when they had a new years sale, and Windows, logically, refused to run a driver that wasn't "digitally signed" or something.
Sure enough, I had wade into what for my purposes counts as the darkest rooms of my computer: The advanced boot menu in order to tell Windows to not be so anal about my drivers. Before making it there, however, I needed a "recovery bitlocker". Which could only be withdrawn from my MS account, which required me to log on on a different device.
Let me take this moment to point out that of all the things I loathe about smartphones, typing on them is the absolute lowest worst.
Imagine my joy when of course I had forgotten the password to the service I use maybe once a year because all apps and devices using it are constantly logged on anyway. And changing the password entailed having two codes sent to two different e-mail accounts, and some three different attempts before it was deemed "strong" enough, and all this without an effective, multi-input keyboard.
And then it turned out that there was no bitlocker recovery key to be found because it was the account last used on a phone that was replaced like a year ago and oh, the joy.
The joy. That for the twentysomething minutes I spent on that endeavour, it turns out that I still remembered my password, just not the right account. (also having to feed the bitlocker into my computer twice, but my VPN is running)
Sure enough, I had wade into what for my purposes counts as the darkest rooms of my computer: The advanced boot menu in order to tell Windows to not be so anal about my drivers. Before making it there, however, I needed a "recovery bitlocker". Which could only be withdrawn from my MS account, which required me to log on on a different device.
Let me take this moment to point out that of all the things I loathe about smartphones, typing on them is the absolute lowest worst.
Imagine my joy when of course I had forgotten the password to the service I use maybe once a year because all apps and devices using it are constantly logged on anyway. And changing the password entailed having two codes sent to two different e-mail accounts, and some three different attempts before it was deemed "strong" enough, and all this without an effective, multi-input keyboard.
And then it turned out that there was no bitlocker recovery key to be found because it was the account last used on a phone that was replaced like a year ago and oh, the joy.
The joy. That for the twentysomething minutes I spent on that endeavour, it turns out that I still remembered my password, just not the right account. (also having to feed the bitlocker into my computer twice, but my VPN is running)
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