right, i misread it as ممكدن

yes, german has a very weird way of writing numbers, where . is replaced by , and , is replaced by .

So, in US numbers, that would be EUR 274,091,361.75

It has confused many people already. It should be made more consistent internationally. I propose all use the US format of 274,091,361.75 because that’s already used in programming and so it’s widespread.

To give a bit of technical details, the hardware must have a feature to destroy encryption keys for user data whenever a new OS is installed on it; and you have to be able to install a new OS on it at all.

Like, today, many smartphones have the problem that you can’t install a new OS on them at all, because the bootloader doesn’t allow it. Meanwhile PCs have a different problem, where they do allow installing new OS, but the user data is typically not encrypted and so you can just boot linux from a USB device and read all contents on the internal disk.

The best solution might be to encrypt all userdata, store the keys in the bootloader on the device, but when a new OS is loaded/installed, the bootloader doesn’t give out the keys so the userdata can’t be decrypted.

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i’m currently learning arabic. did i get your name right?

was it really that big of a deal? i’m european and can’t really understand whether people want to make it seem like such a big deal, or whether it actually really had anything to do with most people’s lifes?