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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Because it's way too easy to accidently bump into your mouse or keyboard and un-intentionally wake your machine. I disabled that shit cause I was tired of my PC constantly waking on the rare occasion I put it to sleep.

And like I said elsewhere in this thread, my PC uses 5w when asleep, and 0w when off. 5w is not a lot, but multiply that by the billions of PCs that are out there and it adds up. A modern machine with an NVME SSD takes less than 10 seconds to boot anyway, so there's really no point in using sleep unless you just like destroying the environment and paying an extra $12/year in electricity for no reason.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

This mac mini on uses less power than your desktop in sleep.

Your desktop also doesn't use 0 watts of power when off. If you have a gaming computer with a full power supply it's probably using a couple watts completely off. Vs an M1 Mac mini that uses about 1 or less watts in sleep.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Here you were saying the average user isn't going to use Wake on LAN, but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?

I have my USB's disabled as well, but I was talking averages here.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

but you expect them to disable USB devices waking their computer?

He expects people to turn off their computer when they are done with it, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to expect. Apple is deliberately making it harder to use this computer in a way many people use their computer.