Windows pc calling home (even while asleep)

And since Ive never bought the problematic games before it's so much easier for me.

I'd encourage anyone to ditch the crappy anticheat broken crap and just go back to playing good high quality games.

I game on Linux every day.

I wish multiplayer worked across the board but it’s whatever. I don’t have time for it any way haha.

Sorry for the rant but why the hell people still entertain themselves with proprietary Windows games in 2023?!? So much so that they are willing to put up with such utter rubbish of an OS? Man, just play better games, even FOSS ones, on Linux! The proprietary rubbish pay-to-win games should be shunned!

If you have a wireless Xbox controller it becomes far harder. Xone is what I want to use but then I have xow, xbdrvr and a bunch of other things to deal with. Or if I want to actually use my Nvidia video card to it's fullest ability, well good luck.

Linux is awesome but has a bit to go for me. Although it's been that was since it stopped being my daily driver in 2014.

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

I have a convertible laptop with pen and it works fine.

In trying it doing that on someone hybrid, not surface but a Lenovo, PopOS! seems to works mostly out-of-box.

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.

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.

I think the worst part is not that they added it, but that they removed regular S3.

Your phone does the same thing and it's definitely a good thing.

A consequence of the endless need for NeW fEaTuReS

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

Pretty soon, yeah. Try making sure a recent Macbook is actually offline.

That's one of the ideas with MRAM: buy your device already booted up, no more booting up or shutting down (...or reinstalling, or changing the OS).

Thanks for the nick lol, took me a second :D

It got disabled one day on my 8th Gen i7 XPS. It was driving me crazy trying to figure out why it keep cooking it self alive in my backpack. It's since been demoted to house use, sleep is still useless even after many FW updates and fresh os install. That thing used to last weeks on battery just closing the lid. Now it can't make it though the night. I wish I could turn it back on in this case, my new laptop is much better about it.

Modern sleep modes are internet connected, with the intent to allow systems to perform updates while sleeping.

I don't like it but that's how it's designed to work.

Then just shut it down lol. It's gonna ping windows microsoft domains unless it's actually off.

I have only seen like 1 device ever that actually stops trying to ping the internet when it's in suspend mode, and it was 1 smart TV. My other smart TV pings domains regardless. If you want a device to stop being connected then simply shut it down.

The fact that windows has so much telemetry is creepy yes. The fact that it will keep trying to ping the domain when blocked is not creepy and is basic tech functionality.

are you saying that this is not creepy at all?

Definitely creepy that it phones home in the first place.

But it's not necessarily creepy that it keeps trying; it could just be sloppy programming. Hanlon's Razor comes to mind. Microsoft Teams behaved in a similar way apparently. If you blocked it phoning home at the network level it would buffer gigabytes of data on disk until the disk was full.

What do you mean?

It's most likely modern standby (S0 standby) and not a WOL packet.

All modern laptops default to this, and the latest don't even give you an option to turn it off.

It probably is that, makes sense. Not sure what devices would be doing it... (Xfinity router?). I even moved to a new house with different devices, router etc and it still did that.

You're right, it could be a setting in Windows or perhaps the BIOS. I know there is often a 'wake on LAN' BIOS setting...

My phone is never plugged into my computer and I don’t have any service like that running that I know of.

It could be OneDrive (though I don't use it at all) or even the ghost of the Explorer iCloud plugin.

its the most recommended one on r/piracy and FMHY.

Here's another one, its created by a mydigitallife forum member https://github.com/abbodi1406/KMS_VL_ALL_AIO

Check the code yourself

You're a bit confused.

• Sleep keeps the system on but in a low power state. User and kernel sessions are kept in RAM. If power is lost, you start from a clean session. The system can resume full power with a key press or mouse movement.
• Hibernate dumps the user and kernel session from RAM to disk and completely powers off. Upon startup, the hiberfil.sys file is read and put back into RAM. The physical power button must be pressed to turn on.
• Hybrid Shutdown uses a feature called Fast Startup. The user session is discarded, while the kernel session is written to disk before the system completely powers off. Upon startup, the hiberfil.sys file is read and puts the kernel session back into RAM. The last logged on user has their profile preloaded, including any apps that support the feature. The physical power button must be pressed to turn on.

You can disable Fast Startup or simply hold SHIFT and click Shutdown. The feature requires the user to press the Shutdown button within Windows for it to function. If you press the physical power button on your case, that is an ACPI initiated shutdown and bypasses the Fast Startup feature. This is by design.

Your motherboard firmware controls whether or not the USB ports will continue to supply power when the system is off. It's essentially like a wall brick at this point.

Fast Startup was really meant for HDD. With SSD it's not really necessary. It's negligible time savings and with how buggy drivers can be, days or weeks old kernel sessions are bound to start causing problems.

Yah. That make sense now. I thought that's what the domain resolved to.

Never used PiHole but Blocky.