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I bought a Lenovo ideapad 110 today and had to go through the motions of setting up the computer.
I have the option to accept Microsoft's terms ... or don't get the computer running...
So I am forced to accept what I really don't.

Well the step where I should connect to the internet is really spooky because this installation software suggested my old wlan connection that i called:

cultofthedeadcow

Now don't tell me that this is a so common name that Microsoft and Lenovo would have that stored by default!

Yeah but your Wlan is sending the strongest signal so your computer catches that - you say?

Nope - I don't use it anymore and I AM NOT EVEN IN THE SAME COUNTRY! The computer was bought in a different country - and it is not online!

So here we have a case of Microsoft getting these personal data that I only used with Linux!!!

Did my former ISP - Nextgentel - hand it over to them?
They are Swedish and therefore not to be trusted

How the installation went? I'll tell you later ... right now I am too pissed off.

Geeez..... I guess you have to do port blocking on your NAT to prevent the machine from calling the mothership !

Ok I have calmed down and cannot rule out that I have played around with that wifi -years ago.

To sum up this Lenovo Ideapad 110
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz

It comes with Windows 10
Ii is possible to enter Bios with <F2>
Secure boot and fast startup can be disabled.
It is possible to install Linux.
It is possible to dualboot Windows 10 and Linux in Uefi mode

So even if Windows 10 not exactly is making it easy to install Linux - it will work. So we can put Lenovo ideapad 110 on the HW white list.