Sorry, I forgot about ACPI :) Now that you posted this, I think I recall one friend telling me that hibernation killed his laptop. But this was over 10 years a

Sorry, I forgot about ACPI :) Now that you posted this, I think I recall one friend telling me that hibernation killed his laptop. But this was over 10 years ago and I only know about one such incident. OTOH, what UEFI gave us is basically a portable and convenient API to brick any machine from any OS.