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It's such a dumb fucking feature too.
"Oh god forbid my email client and messaging app refresh 5 seconds after I wake my laptop instead of being already refreshed"
Who actually cares? Who on earth asked for this zombie sleep state?
Nobody asked for it. And it's not like they add anything people ask for (or remove things people ask them to get rid of) anyway.
Macbooks are the same way. I have one of my System Bots running on my work laptop (now that I can get away with it) and it wakes up... let me see... somewhere between every half hour to three hours, whether I want it to or not.
This "always on" bullshit is frustrating.
Don't forget the added feature of your laptop overheating and crashing when you put it into your backpack.
Or my personal favorite is when it doesn't overheat and crash it drains 20% of it's battery in 15 minutes then goes into hibernation.
Your phone does the same thing and it's definitely a good thing.
A consequence of the endless need for NeW fEaTuReS
I expect is more usefull for big files or similar, aka like the consoles standby updates downloads.
Here's Microsoft's information page on it:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby
As the time goes I just miss my old laptop more and more. What's next, no shutdown feature?
Pretty soon, yeah. Try making sure a recent Macbook is actually offline.
That's one of the ideas with MRAM: buy your device already booted up, no more booting up or shutting down (...or reinstalling, or changing the OS).
Same for most AMD laptops as well.
You have precisely described my experience with my latest laptop. I get probably 4 hours of battery life in this mode. After that my battery is probably at 20% or less which means that when I open the laptop there's almost nothing I can do with it.
I had to figure out how to re-enable S3 sleep and now I'm struggling with my stupid Wi-Fi adapter which breaks every time I resume from sleep but all I have to do is toggle it and I'm back to running again. After doing this change my battery life in sleep will actually last at least a day now which is massive compared to what it used to be.
Hibernate FTW
This is why I disconnect my machines from the network while in sleep mode (I use only wired connections). For me it’s perfectly sufficient if they update the apps while I use them.