Always triple check dd

Not sure I understand your comment. Maybe mine wasn't clear either. The question was: What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? My clarified response is: Because most Americans are racist and voted for a racist and they're not mad because the current state of their country is exact what they want.

Maybe not a nuianced or particularly fair response but, regardless, I'm not sure what that has to do with my behavior or feelings.

They're rasict and it's exactly what they want.

SA

That last cold front was a bitch. It was 12F (-11C) when I left the house today, yesterday the high was 32F (0C) and tomorrow it's going to be 72F (22C)

Also, bitlocker is not the only disk encryption software for Windows. It's just the built in one. If you wanted, you could use something like Veracrypt which is open source and will play nicely with all your OSes.