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In 2024, do you let your computer go to sleep or not ?
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xrunner:
It's a Logitech (which is the only brand I have) and they have an "OFF" switch on the bottom so I tried turning it off and that did the trick ... until he learns to step on the KBD to over-ride.  :-DD
SiliconWizard:
I'm sure the cat finds that amusing and does it on purpose once he's found out a couple times...
You should be able to disable wake-up from the keyboard (or any USB device) using the device manager on Windows.
On Linux, it's a matter of writing a udev rule.
David Hess:
My newer Windows 10 systems work with sleep and even hibernation mode, but sometimes the mouse or network do not recover and I have to reboot to restore them, so I do not bother even on my laptop unless I have a specific reason to turn sleep on while traveling.
Halcyon:
Mostly, no.
Psi:
Sleep working well depends on your motherboard, some motherboards have zero issues with it, others have issues occasionally when coming out of sleep, and some are just terrible.
If you have issues with sleep you can use hibernate instead and it should work flawlessly.
With an SSD the speed to hibernate and resume is fine. It's only bad on spinning disks or if you have a butt load of ram.


With spinning disks it's best (for longevity) to
leave them spinning rather than letting them power down and up on activity + timeout.
either disable the spin-down timeout entirely or set it to something much larger, like an hour or two instead of the default, which is usually like 8-15 minutes.
The starting/stopping wears the motor, bearings and loads the motor controller with lots of inrush starting currents, and the thermal cycling isn't good on other parts either.
The feature for power up/down on activity was added for environmental reasons so they can quote a lower average power consumption.
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