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My laptop isn't under my supervision most of the time. And I'd hate it if someone were to steal my SSD, or whole laptop even, when I'm not around. Is there a way to encrypt everything, but still keep the device in sleep, and unclock it without much delay. It's a very slow laptop. So decryption on login isn't viable, takes too long. While booting up also takes forever, so it needs to be in a "safe" state when simply logged out. Maybe a way that's decrypt-on-demand?

I'm on Arch with KDE.

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[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 2 months ago

Encrypting and decrypting are complex operations that requires a lot from the hardware. The resources needed to encrypt and decrypt is proportionally correlated with the amount of files you're encrypting and decrypting.

That said, there are some alternatives

Encrypt the whole filesystem
Encrypt only your home folder
Encrypt only the files you wanna

There is an app, Vaults, that allows you to create vaults to easily encrypt and decrypt folders. Take a look on this app

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 0 points 2 months ago

ChatGPT, is that you?

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 2 months ago

Well, looks like now we cannot be helpful and polite that people call you ChatGPT

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[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago

Detectors say that you are human, you use multiple languages, and you are a moderator, but it feels like a 101 AI response. It's horrible that we're living in an era where you need to be careful about this. You were probably trying to format it nice, but I've only read this phrasing from AI.

But thanks for the answer, the home folder would probably be best. I don't want to think about it after setting it up. All my downloads and docs are there. I also feel like the whole filesystem would take forever for me to unlock/boot.

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