• vodka@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    A lot of modern windows laptop don’t let you shut them down.

    They use something called Windows Hybrid Sleep and it should be illegal. Selecting shut down in windows will keep the machine in a state where it will turn on at random times to check for updates. Especially fun whrn in your backpack creating a furnace.

    Thankfully it can be disabled via AD policy.

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        16 hours ago

        It’s always funny to me when people call Linux complicated and in the next sentence say shit like that

        As if doing registry edits and group policy stuff is acceptable for basic features and settings

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      14 hours ago

      You dont need to use group policy.

      Admin console: powercfg.exe /hibernate off

      Now its off. Hybrid sleep is just a faster Hibernate.

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      Ah yeah I forgot about hybrid sleep as I turned if off years ago and forgot it existed. Such a nonsense feature.

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      1 day ago

      I remember you have to press either Shift or Alt for the shutdown button to actually shut down the PC.