> Dropping Qubes mailing list since it's not a Qubes issue any more. > Recommend calling Dell again and telling them the above paragraph. > Sounds like a hardware problem with the laptop to me. Get them to > replace it.
I understand it no longer seems to be directly a Qubes issue, but I am updating because it may indirectly be of interest to Qubes users and developers. I will be contacting Dell on Monday. They are unlikely to replace it, but if they think it’s a hardware issue, they may repair it. Right after my last post, during the last attempt, there was a notification from Quick Heal about a suspicious file. I tried today when I booted up the laptop again, it worked without any problem for several hours. I updated all the drivers and checked that the Windows updates were up to date. Everything went well. Finally when I started to proceed with changing login options, it froze again. And then it started freezing repeatedly. The part which may be relevant to the Qubes community is about the fact that today it started freezing when I restarted the NordVPN app, which I had to disable earlier, because the network just won’t work properly. Earlier also I think the problems started after I logged in to NordVPN. But again, it may be a problem specific to NordVPN. About two years ago, I had subscribed to IPVanish and I had to give up using it with a few weeks as it just won’t get connected to the Internet. Years earlier, when the Tor Project was relatively new and I tried to use it, it also just won’t connect to the Internet. However, later on it started working. Still, my problems on laptops might have something to do with the use of Tor or VPNs. In the university where I work, the users who use a VPN have their internet access disabled. Since Qubes and Tor are about privacy and that is what I have been arguing for for years openly, even in official settings, I think the problems might have something to do with trying to maintain privacy online. Besides laptop, there are other reasons why I think this may be one of the causes. I mention it here so that Qubes users and developers may be aware of this possibility, in case they are not (I think many already are). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3C705D48-2CAB-43DD-ABD0-A3FD3B06E2B7%40gmail.com.
