Clamshell mode. External monitor, lid closed. My issue was that I could not tell it to sleep when not in use, because their IT disabled sleep to ensure their corporate spyware was always running.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's the part I get, but what does having the corporate spyware running 24/7 accomplish? What kind of telemetry would they even get out of that other than ip/location, which isn't all that interesting.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

I have no idea. I didn't even trust it on my main home network. Connected it to my guest network so it couldn't scan my home network. Which it tried to do, if course.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

It can check if people are typing or using the mouse.

It's also possible to use the camera of a notebook to track if a person is present and looking at the screen or not.

Any company using that shit is the kind that uses "bums of seats" rather than actual deliverables as a measure of performance, which means they're also the kind of place were unpaid overtime is the norm and, if in dev, things like projects often ending up in a death march stage - such places are stupidly inneficient and badly managed with a disfunctional work culture.

Avoid such companies like the plague - you'll be luck if the worst that happens is insane work hours.