For the first time in two decades of my tumultuous relationship with the coldhearted mistress that is Microsoft Windows, I am glad that it turned itself on. It didn’t update itself. It didn’t even bluescreen for no reason and update itself in its confusion.
The torrent finished downloading about an hour before I got home, and by the time I noticed it finished, the elusive seeder was long gone. I feel oddly at ease. I feel oddly… responsible. For propagating knowledge to future seekers.
Is this dull enough for here?
Have this terrible photoshop bodge job as an offering of my goodwill.
I have had good experience preventing this from happening by disabling Wake-On-LAN, or enabling deeper sleep modes that remove that capability, on my systems that don’t need it.
My suspicion is that many devices these days are pinging the LAN devices around them, for instance other Windows machines looking for printers and network shares, and this is waking devices that are in higher sleep states.