You can run Linux on it: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

Which gives you an hour or two of battery life, and effectively no camera support.

I have one, running Linux on it, love it and consider best Linux device I ever had had, but I wish there were fewer quirks.

> Which gives you an hour or two of battery life

Interesting, but that must be some bad configuration, something that must be fixed on that specific line of tablets. It is not necessary on Linux.

And of course some rogues had to pass leave some judgement and a "guess what triggered my reaction". In this case, the very annoying and utterly avoidable game of guesses is among the easiest: that it was a banality? But not all of this public may have been there...

Edit: to expand more on the implicit of the original post «not necessary on Linux»: that «an hour or two of battery life» is quite extraordinary, and should really require a bit of expansion: what is it that drains that battery? That is not normal at all, and requires some more detail, like "Android 12 tried to marry my cousin" or similar would.