alt Hacker NewsI’ve killed a laptop by placing it in a backpack which failed to suspend. Based on the heat I assume parts of it cooked despite any thermal throttling. It’ll be interesting to see the damage a bug like this might cause.
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Tade0 • today at 12:30 PM
Classic. My last Windows laptop cooked its screen like that.
Meanwhile my work Windows laptop would just go full throttle during "sleep".
Szpadel • today at 12:20 PM
I had identical scenario that killed ssd drive. since then I always place laptop with vents on the top
hugh-avherald • today at 12:27 PM
I've had a laptop in a bag that decided it should wake from modern standby to run updates. Except the update failed at the laptop froze during boot. It didn't kill the laptop fortunately.
Then two months later, it did it again. And again three months after that.
Sorry, Microsoft, you've lost your S3 privileges. I changed it to S0. Just because you're connected to a WiFi network you know doesn't mean you can turn on and do whatever you want.