There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Lets be honest. Only the most tech savy of them will actually install Linux. Most are just not going to care they’re not getting updates on their >6 year old machines.

Also fun: Operation Fast and Furious

They just don’t make that big of a difference.

The 40 series was basically the exact opposite of this. The lower down the stack the worse the per generation gains got. With the lower end cards sometimes seeing regressions because of the lack of memory bandwidth/capacity.

Besides changing the behavior, the other interesting aspect of this is /sys/power/suspend_stats/last_sleep_energy as a new file to expose the amount of energy that the battery consumed during the last sleep cycle. The “last_sleep_energy” is reported in mAh.

I’m surprised this didn’t exist before. I use the report in windows all the time to figure out why my POS laptop died after 20 minutes of being in sleep.

This is kinda a quirk of modern/S0 standby.

I assume this is mostly so the device can correctly change between which type of sleep it’s in (connected standby vs disconnected). My windows device seem to do a LOT in connected standby so making sure it properly switches to disconnected and doesn’t chew through the battery is very important.