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> It would literally have been better if they'd never invented power save mode.

Only if you considered the purpose of power-saving mode to reduce total energy usage, vs to reduce amount of power (and consequent wear & tear) an individual machine uses. However that MS would release a feature like that which automatically kicks in on upgrade without any sort of consideration of what the machine was used for - it could be running life-support systems! - seems an issue. But I'd also expect a fair bit more diligence on behalf of engineers responsible for monitoring and maintaining systems that need 24x7 uptime.



>it could be running life-support systems!

i shudder at the thought that a critical piece of life-support anything would be running a windows based OS.



> it could be running life-support systems!

Life support systems don't run windows. And if you're running consumer windows on anything critical, you fucked up.


Sounds the original use case was an example of something critical enough it shouldn't really have been running on such an OS.




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