I think I know how this works with rEFInd, but I haven't done it because.. my drive is a dual-boot so.. yeah, unless I get a laptop and install only Linux in 2030 maybe I'll do it by then.. But by then, I might need the extra security anyway.
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The same issue applies to Windows 10. I think the TPM (and a BIOS password) is supposed to address this for Windows 11 but I presume you could flush the NVRAM and access the files anyway. I don't know what exact safeguards there are.
Either way, I am far more trustful of passwords I enter myself. Such as wafersGeezAfterCraze.
I've been doing that since like was first introduced as a separate library already. I don't know better than that all my files are encrypted since well over a decade, probably almost two