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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by rollcat on Thursday September 28, 2023 @11:10AM (#37690709)
> The real unanswered question is, does it finally have a damn sleep mode so it can save power when idle.

I dream of DIY'ing a laptop, and RPi looks like a great platform for prototyping that... until you realize there's just no sensible way to put it to sleep. Hibernate + aggressive boot time optimization?

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by moffkalast on Thursday September 28, 2023 @06:12PM (#37696566)
You know it's funny, my current laptop has a weird firmware bug (certified Asus moment) where it refuses to go into sleep mode. If sleep is triggered by any OS it will straight up just shut down completely. I've lost some work the first few times I used it out of habit.

Eventually though it didn't turn out to be much of an issue, SSDs boot real fast these days anyway and I can just do a full power cycle.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 5 by rollcat on Friday September 29, 2023 @05:44AM (#37701348)
Meanwhile I'm genuinely annoyed that my Thinkpad takes a second or two longer to wake up from sleep than my Mac ;)
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