> Back in the windows 7 days you could stick a windows installer CD in and press Shift+F7 or something and get a system command prompt with the drive unlocked.

On my birthday iirc once long time ago I think in 5-6th class not sure, my brother gave me his laptop, I wanted to do python but python wanted admin password on windows to install properly. So what I did was I dont even remember how, but download one operating system which could then crack the windows password so that I can set new and I used that to then set a new password to then install python. to then only print hello world :D (I think only because one of the cousins I really admire mentioned that he made 2k loc of python once and I thought during that time, python is the endgame). We are talking about windows 7 but I think that windows 10 security must've gotten better. So these are some things that I have done, I wouldn't call it coding as much as tinkering but I love doing these things from as long as I can remember :D

I just remembered this paragraph from one of the comments that I had written sometime ago, source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663383

Seriously enough to make it turned on by default.

Which really annoyed me. Desktops don't need encrypted drives.