It's complicated to prove you that my friend told me this, it was an oral conversion with no recording, but I can swear we talked a bit about it.

It was more about the applications compiled by garuda than the system itself. He told me they were communicating with Google and other stuff a lot.

I didn't try it by myself, (and I don't have the time to install a distribution just to check that). It might be for update, it might be nothing. That's why I asked if he was using Garuda and that it was something he might want to check... Or not.

I hope you didn't need to bleach your eyes after reading my post. I have corrected the error and even added a missing word in the last sentence.