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Yes! Me too. Not adding anything here except a confirmation on the above approach. You kind of need your email password as a "break glass" scenario. But mostly, you just need your password manager.

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and root disk encryption, unless you have some alternative method set up.

That's the default in this day and age, no?

I mean, probably should be. But for me, no. Well, not my personal computer anyway. That's a mistake, I know. But corporate computer yes.

So no, I don't think "in this day and age" necessarily. And I believe that the vast majority of "normal" users don't do full drive encryption either. But yes, we should.

Last I looked, windows and Mac installs both push the user to set up bitlocker or FileVault, respectively. You have to actively say no if you don’t want it.

I deliberately dodged there, as you noted. I do not have full disk encryption setup. I know that I'm probably have a very bad day if I come to lose my laptop, etc. I should do this, no doubt.

But I'm not sure. While maybe good password management is starting to soak into common computer usage, I don't think disk encryption is all that common just yet across the average user. It should be. But the average user is just moving to their phone anyway, with face id and encryption by default, instead of maintain their own personal device.

Corporate devices seem to be a bit better in this regard, though.

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