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(Thanks, I just did that. It worked.) This demonstrates that it's in Microsoft's power to save a whole lot of electric power usage globally by pushing a softwa
by tpmx 4y ago
(Thanks, I just did that. It worked.)
This demonstrates that it's in Microsoft's power to save a whole lot of electric power usage globally by pushing a software update.
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- TonyTrapp 4y agoI have never seen this happening, with many machines and different mice. Maybe it only happens with specific mice? Anyway, want I want to say is that the power usage across the world due to this misfeature is maybe not quite as dramatic as it may appear.
- tpmx 4y agoI's a high-DPI "gaming" mouse. I use it because it has lots of programmable buttons. Gaming seems like quite a big thing with Windows users these days though and they seem to want high-DPI mice, so I do think it could actually be a sizeable thing outside of large office environments.
- xboxnolifes 4y agoSure, but those kinds of updates are usually the kind that hackernews complains about. "Microsoft pushes mandatory, OPT-OUT windows update that prevents mouse from waking up computer!"
- tamrix 4y agoThen later, in typical internet fashion. "alt right angered as Trump slams Bidens mouse moving policy claiming freedom of mouse movement is more important than saving our planet from imminent assured death due to global warming"
- smsm42 4y agoObXKCD: https://xkcd.com/1172/ https://xkcd.com/1172/
- solnyshok 4y agodid it work for Bluetooth mouse? I thought that wakeup from sleep works only for wired mice