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Years ago I bought a tiny hockey puck sized computer to act as an internal web server. AFAIK there seemed to be no way for me to prevent it from going to sleep, I presume it was due to a similar regulation. This one from the EU. Had to throw the thing out.

I’m not looking forward to having to fight hardware / software locks on my computer that make it go to sleep all the time.

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I've never heard of any power regulation like that in the EU. Any idea what directive that might even be from?

Edit: looks like 617/2013. Weird that I've never heard about this. This is about total power consumption per year though, so that thing would probably either be inefficient as hell or misclassified for some reason. None of the sleep mode regulations should apply to your case.

Sounds like a user misconfiguration issue to me. I've never had an issue keeping a device from going to sleep when it's... actively doing something... like running services.

It occurred in both Windows and Ubuntu. In Windows “Never” wasn’t an option for Sleep (edit; I forget if it wasn’t an option or selecting it didn’t work), in Ubuntu the usual disable sleep commands didn’t work. Someone in the Ubuntu forums suggested there was a recent power management change due to EU reg and the code around it was freshly buggy. I spent a day on it before cutting my losses.

It's software that triggers the sleep state, not the hardware.

Sounds more or less like you were using the desktop OS version for a server device.

Even in the case where this were really true there are programs like "Caffeine" which will fool your machine into thinking it's not idle.

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