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I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended.

Creepy behavior

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[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Honestly if you're still trying to find workaround for Microsofts crap at this point - just switch to Linux.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Oh, my daily driver is a linux, i just have a spare surface book 3 i use occasionally for gaming (the thing is surprisingly powerful)

Idk how well linux would support detaching and touchscreen with pen. But I’ll definitely switch the os to linux sometime in the future when i get a new gaming rig.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using linux-surface on my surface book 2, works perfectly. BUT the webcam doesn't work :-)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You know. I disable that crap stuff from bios on my zenbook s.

Someimes broken webcam is a good thing. At least to some....

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