First, I appreciate you taking the time to provide your thoughts on this even though the post is 2 years old. :)

Second, no worries. I’ve found an option. I just use MakeMKV. I even bought a paid license! It’s that good! ;)

This is true, though I figured I’d mention it. ^^

I definitely have backups. And this explains it very well. Thank you. :)

Speaking as someone who doesn’t encrypt their desktop but is thinking about it:

you can’t share (readable) data over one’s home network if the sending PC is disk-encrypted?

For example, are you saying that if I send a video file from my PC, which is disk-encrypted, over LAN to my NAS, then the NAS would not be able to read said file?

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Or just a pipe.

That is a good reason to backup

This is true.

but has nothing to do with encryption.

I disagree with this. If you forget the password for decrypting your drive, then you will have lost “anything on the drive that’s important”. I know because it happened to me long ago, and so now I too have been wary of disk encryption ever since then.

but my Googlefuu isn’t good enough.

To be fair, with how shit Google has become, it’s likely none of our Googlefuu would be enough.

TIL that electric unicycles exist…