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Windows pc calling home (even while asleep)(lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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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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LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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It’s such a dumb fucking feature too.
“Oh god forbid my email client and messaging app refresh 5 seconds after I wake my laptop instead of being already refreshed”
Who actually cares? Who on earth asked for this zombie sleep state?

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The Doctor@beehaw.org
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Nobody asked for it. And it’s not like they add anything people ask for (or remove things people ask them to get rid of) anyway.

Macbooks are the same way. I have one of my System Bots running on my work laptop (now that I can get away with it) and it wakes up… let me see… somewhere between every half hour to three hours, whether I want it to or not.

This “always on” bullshit is frustrating.

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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Don’t forget the added feature of your laptop overheating and crashing when you put it into your backpack.

Or my personal favorite is when it doesn’t overheat and crash it drains 20% of it’s battery in 15 minutes then goes into hibernation.

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El_Rocha@lm.put.tf
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I think the worst part is not that they added it, but that they removed regular S3.

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5redie8@sh.itjust.works
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A consequence of the endless need for NeW fEaTuReS

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👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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Your phone does the same thing and it’s definitely a good thing.

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XTornado@lemmy.ml
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I expect is more usefull for big files or similar, aka like the consoles standby updates downloads.

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