Best Security When Dumping an Old Computer For Reuse..

[Demanding Truth]

Best Security When Dumping an Old Computer For Reuse..


I was given a box full of retired notebooks a few days ago.. One booted up at the W-10 factory-reset screen.. Someone reset their notebook computer before trashing it, to totally erase all their private data, which was very wise.. Plus it gives the children's hospital another free fresh W-10 notebook for their video-games, for the terminally ill kiddies...

Would be nice if Linux OS's had the same reset capability as windows OS's do.. Just click the mouse on 'reset', and when you return it's a brand new fresh clean installation.. What's so tough'n scary about adding that user friendly reset feature to Linux..? Would be nice if Mate added that feature as an add-on to all of Mate OS's, so we could add it to 'Linux Mint Mate 20'.. Would be nice if New Linux features in the new Linux OS's were also offered as add-ons for those who prefer older versions of Linux.. I very much prefer 'Linux Mint 20.3' to all the newer versions.. 'Linux Mint 20.3' runs quick, smooth, quiet, kind, user friendly, honest, functional, while the newer versions fight and abuse the user in too many ways, like they were written by devils, warmongers, zombies, nazi-elitist ah's, and christians...

There's still one honest honorable website remaining out there in hell-world where you can download 'Linux Mint Mate 20' ISO.. Best you get it today before everything on the Web has slipped into hell's war and plugged latrine.. Save it in your software file.. Make the ISO DVD, and test it out.. Note that it isn't mean and nasty to install and run like the newer versions are... Do so double encrypt the installation.. Get used to using two passwords before china kills the internet and 2-billion computers with its gagagoogoo terrorist evil...

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Add: BleachBit: bleachbit_4.4.2-0_all_ubuntu1804, downloaded from bleachbit's official website from a flash-drive. Do Not let bleachbit update nor upgrade.).. Add: Librewolf, Gimp, Audacity, Cheese, Focuswriter, Brasero.. Kill the Linux Update Manager at first boot by reconguring it, and unchecking it, and every box visible in 'startup applications' (bottom of control center).. Do Not allow any updates what so ever.. They are most definitely hell-world's new parasitic zombie-class life-sucking internet war malware.. They will so wreck the OS.. Uninstall: Firefox, Rsync, Hexchat, Transmission, Bluetooth (careful to not uninstall network-mgr while uninstalling bluetooth).. Add no-script to Librewolf... Now you have a nice OS built for the good meek innocent honest people... If the OS twitches wrongly, reinstall it.. Only takes an hour and a bit... To reduce damages by hacking pests, net-connect via a cable, and shut-off the wireless..

Download 'Linux Mint Mate 20', and 'bleachbit_4.4.2-0_all_ubuntu1804' Now, before it vanishes off the Web.. Have it in your files for when you desperately need it.. Call it your 'Linux First Aid Kit'.. Maybe add the Linux restoration software to the kit too.. Everyone should 100% stop storing their money data in their phones and computers.. An evil nazi-storm is coming that will rip your lives to pieces... Best thing to do is to stay off the Net till the wars are over, or at least delete your private files from your Net computer, and save your files in two backups, use two external hard drive backups, along with the flashdrives and CD's... YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!.. China is gonna untie all your belly-buttons, let the cords slip through, and make all your bums fall off...

//archive.org/details/linuxmint-20.1-mate-64bit

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[michaelk]

I am not aware the factory reset does an actual erase. I assume a factory reset is just a reinstall while the old data exists it isn't accessible. It is possible to create a grub entry for an iso file thus providing the same thing.

[Demanding Truth]

In this case it doesn't matter if the previous user's stuff was saved on the hd, as it's now a kiddies gaming computer in a dying kids hospital.. Last MS kid I saw die after his heart failed, he said to his parents standing around his bed "I'm scared".. They hugged him tight till he passed.. Tears fell out of my eyes... I didn't know it till they were splashing on my arm...

Can I create a grub entry for an iso file thus providing the Linux OS to be reinstalled like windows OS resets..?