In 8 hours it uses 20% of the battery. When Windows or Mac are put to sleep, the damn things can sleep for a week! This is the case with Linux on multiple laptops.

Is there some kind of manipulation going by ring -1 that detects Linux is running? Is Linux not respecting some procedure and kissing a step?

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    14 days ago

    if the battery dies during hibernate, it’s not hibernating

    incidentally I have been using linux for years and have never had a working hibernation setup. I’m convinced it’s a hoax at this point

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      14 days ago

      I’ve been using it pretty consistently for years, I achieve uptimes upwards of 60 days like this. The downside is that it takes kinda long to enter that state and there’s a chance that it fails to enter it (though it doesn’t crash, just goes to the screenlock), especially on my laptop - it refuses to go into hibernation unless I kill most webbrowser windows, especially stuff like YouTube.

      And you do need a pretty large swap space; with those super long uptimes, even swap size = ram size isn’t always enough, because sometimes the swap space is actually used as swap and not just as hibernation image storage.

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      It generally works fine with my desktop, though depending on the alignment of the planets it sometimes just… forgets it was hibernated? and boots like normal…