• @[email protected]
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    631 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      301 day ago

      Shouldn’t have to use fucking group policy just to stop your machine updating at inopportune times. Fucking Windows.

      • @[email protected]
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        1716 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

    • @[email protected]
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      214 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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        212 hours ago

        Or just turn off fast Startup in the power settings.

        I meant that you can thankfully disable it with group policy so that the 3000 laptops I manage at work don’t all cook in backpacks every day.

    • @HStone32
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      620 hours ago

      Ah yes, the greek hydra of IT. Disable one policy, two more shall take it’s place.

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      121 day ago

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

    • @MadBigote
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      41 day ago

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