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.

Both the Satellaview and its competitor the Sega Meganet allowed for direct downloads. As did the US version Sega Channel.

What you are describing existed! The Satellaview. You are correct, while some have been preserved, most of the games were lost to time.

I’m not sure if it was intentional or if brushless motors are really that much more powerful but electric tools are far better now than they were even just 10 years ago.

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.

As with a lot of 90s software, it’s a bit more complicated than which source code did they download (or, rather, mail order on floppy… because it was the 90s). Not the least of which is due to the fact that many of the projects don’t exist anymore and there weren’t that many copies to begin with.

However, they both embrace and extend LDAP and Kerberos among other open and not open projects of the time. Both choices were related to the results of the Protocol Wars and Microsoft’s attempts, in the 90s, to do to the Internet what Google is doing today.

Active Directory and Exchange were both based on open source projects. Embrace, extend, extinguish is Microsoft’s whole jam.

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 Digital Dark Age is definitely a thing.

I am sure the likes of Trump Mobile or NewsMax would be happy to have it.

Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.

My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.

I am sure they can find a reason to discharge people.

Amazon is a technology company now. For a long time the storefront and logistics have been a tech demo for Amazon Web Services.

For instance: FreeRTOS

If I am reading this correctly the Linux kernel needs to give more fucks…

Nokia didn’t suddenly go all in on Windows Phone, they were bought by Microsoft.

There were only ever like 2 phones that used MeeGo. Nokia primarily used an OS called Symbian before they were bought out.

Remind me, who is it that gets laid off first when the line starts going down…