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Comment on Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): July 2025 Reportparent

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Good? Come on. Even few years ago I remember reading people here and on Reddit complaining how their laptops cooked themselves to death in backpacks and OEMs shrugging "you should've turned it off".

"Modern" standby was and is still a hot garbage, and it'll always be, because it's defective by design.

What’s defective in its design

It's a sleep mode but nothing is really asleep and your system could wake up at any time to do whatever it wants. what could go wrong? (I mean apart from draining the battery or cooking the mainboard

Seems to work fine on macs so I don’t think the premise is defective by design. I thought maybe you had some particular examples of poor technical choices to offer

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