I was saying that my theory is that this functionality is broken or being bypassed on Windows such that when it gets hit by for instance the Network Discovery or “Do you have this update already downloaded?” ping from another Windows computer it wakes up to have a chat. I meant other systems are looking for active machines and those pings are waking it up or keeping it from going to sleep. I may have chosen a bad slang since ‘ping’ is a net command.

This theory is based on my understanding that computers don’t go all the way to sleep anymore and reenabling S3 restores normal sleeping. I included WoL because I have a machine that doesn’t have the S3 option but disabling WoL seemed to help on that one.

Right but my point was that doesn’t matter if your machine is in S3 or S4 instead of S1.

I’m not sure what you are trying to say.

I have had some luck disabling Wake-On-LAN on the systems that don’t need it, or enabling higher sleep modes on the systems where that is available. My pet theory is that a lot of systems are constantly looking at what is active on the network and those pings are keeping the machine awake.

Native Americans…

Whatever your and my feelings are regarding national vs federal governments aside, I feel it’s important to point out that the expressed purpose of the electoral college is to guarantee that the states and not the people elect the president. It’s a specifically federal institution doing exactly what it was designed to do.

I think a big part of the problem is that as states have become less democratic people have turned to the federal government expecting it to act like a national one when it isn’t wholly. All of this attention on DC has taken attention away from things like gerrymandering which happen at a state level. This coup started at the bottom not the top.

It worries me that they think we will need them soon.

There were even smaller hard drives. The iPod used a 1.8in drive.

That Xbox would become Microsoft’s Steam has been the prevailing prediction for the better part of 10 years. I am immediately dubious of anybody who’s opinion is that a more capable than the Xbox device (as far as availability of games) has no reason to be purchased.

Yeah, a little known fun fact about the Shuttle is that the radiators were on the inside of the bay doors. On achieving orbit they had 4 hours to get the doors open or they would have to scrub the mission before the electronics overheated. The doors never failed and no mission was ever scrubbed for this reason though.

Obergefell v. Hodges was decided based on the Equal Protection Clause. This is the second ruling in the last few days that seems to go directly against that idea. I am honestly worried they are going to use these rulings as an argument that you don’t have to treat people the same in every state and overturn equal marriage among other things.

Similar terrible rulings regarding slaves and where they were legal and not legal were part of what led to the US civil war.

From what I can tell it isn’t actually possible to do that unless you are at least rich enough to afford a PHD.

My wife and I have been trying to move out of the states for a decade.

I have a thermostat that looks just like that at home. It doesn’t go to 100°, like the other commenter said.

I didn’t know it had a name. I have seen this so much on Lemmy lately.

The police in my city clearly feel that the traffic laws do not apply to them. I would not be surprised to find out that this is the case in most major metropolitan areas.

There is something off about your second map. I don’t remember that much of Oklahoma being part of Texas for instance.

I mean yeah, but somebody else had to let it get that bad first…

Modern cars (in the US) are required to have an OBD-II Port for On-Board Diagnostics. I always assumed most cars these days were just sending some or all of the real-time OBD data to the manufacturer. GM definitely has been.

The both sides thing is hard to get around sometimes and people who believe in the more traditionally classic form of democracy like Biden make it that much harder. While republicans will get elected with a 0.5% margin and call it a mandate to change everything, people like Biden tend to approach the situation with more of an idea that the people voted for Trump and changing what Trump did would be going against what the people voted for, sometimes to a fault.

The Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.