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> leave it for 2 days, its battery is not drained to 0, yet all the apps are still open

Isn’t that normal behaviour? Mine thinkpad T14 still has battery after a couple days sleeping.

Unfortunately, it's not normal these days. How old is your T14? It seems like it's becoming increasingly a problem for Thinkpads as well (e.g. https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=134241 )

It's a windows bug with S3 sleep. Microsoft is supposedly currently trying to fix it since LTT made a video about it

I doubt MS is honestly trying to fix it, since it was MS who introduced Connected Standby as a replacement for S3

And I don't think it's just a software bug - many laptops now don't offer S3 at all, some only after toggling a BIOS option. Even then, it's often buggy on Linux as well.

> Microsoft is supposedly currently trying to fix it since LTT made a video about it

Certainly not because, if that's the implication. Maybe since then in time.

Well, they said that a VP called LTT in response to their video, which is why I said supposedly.

Original video: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c

Follow-up: https://youtu.be/TXsw_92Y2e0

Mine is T14 Gen1 AMD with Alpine on it so I'm off the hook as it seems.

My P14s Gen1 AMD (very similar to T14) with Debian still has this problem. 2 days unplugged will drain the whole battery and turn off. Maybe it's because I kept a Windows partition around?

Updating the BIOS via fwupd fixed it in my case, running Debian testing on a P14s Gen1 AMD.

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