On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 4:04 PM Tim via users
<users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Tim:
>> Are you falling foul of the recent Gnome change that puts a machine
>> to sleep if it considers that it's been idle for about 15 minutes?
>>
>> One of the all-time *DUMB* moves by Gnome.
George N. White III:
> Not at all. Large organizations are trying to reduce power
> consumption by workstations sitting idle overnight, during meetings,
> lunch breaks, etc.
And what do you think they're going to do? Undo that setting, so that
they don't have to deal with employees annoyed at having to wake up
their PCs all day long because they don't actually use the PC
constantly to keep it awake, but do need to refer to it a lot, and the
wait for resumption while trying to keep a customer on the phone is
being a pain, an inability for IT to remotely manage PCs when they
want, and debugging PCs that don't wake from suspend/hibernation.
Greenwashing...
The most annoying thing (to me) was, Fedora maintainers did not make
the setting default for new installs. Instead, they changed the
setting for existing installs, like a F37 -> F38 system upgrade.
It really annoyed me when a couple of my machines went to sleep and I
had to drive across town to wake them and reconfigure them.
Jeff