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My windows is installed on separate ssd and snapshotted regularly, opening browser on windows without ad blocker probably is more dangerous.
Unless you have the other SSDs physically disconnected, you're still running the risk of having your other installations affected by ransomware.
Probably, yeah, but I have exported snapshots and backups for such cases, and data itself is encrypted. So at worst a few hours lost. They can be easily disconnected i just never actually do it.
Many malicious actors don't trigger their payload that you would notice until after data has been mined.
I've visited businesses to help put together basic infrastructure after their systems were encrypted and ransomed. We would bring up a backup from the night before only to find the system still infected. We would go back a week, 2 weeks, a month.
These things lie in wait and only as the final nuclear option do they get noticed.
Kind of not a problem? If malware in question would try to write itself onto other drives it needs to know my luks pin and support my fs, so at worst it can try and fail. If it's a windows machine that has it, well I'll just nuke it after firat reoccurence. Realistically, I've had this setup for over a decade and there were 3-5 times when pirated game had malware.
What's stopping the malware just blowing the disks away? You keep backups disconnected right?
Yes, backups are on multiple separate devices, that are both online and offline.
It would still need ti be an immutable install
Same, I just threw windows on a 1tb ssd and it does nothing but play pirated games. Go ahead and collect what you want lol
yeah, that’s all good until your pwned pirate PC roots your router and printer and baby monitor, and your LAN becomes a DDoS source.
Jokes on u I can't afford internet
Why would I connect it to the Internet?
How are you downloading the games
Windows is a second ssd specifically for the purpose of playing the games, I just download them on Linux to that SSD and switch over to play it
So they’re still both plugged in at the same time, right?