On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 9:40 PM Tim via users <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-11-23 at 10:54 -0400, George N. White III wrote: > > This looks like a power management problem, possibly the USB cable that > provides power is being > > turned off because there is no active data. [...] > > I really question these power saving measures. I highly doubt that > saving 200 mA on a USB port makes any significant difference, except to > unexpected failures. Especially when you take into account the main > grunt work of the PC using hundreds of watts. I think this is driven a) by vendors trying to win big orders from cubicle farms and b) by hardware failures caused by external devices that exceed the design capacity of the USB ports. Factor in HVAC costs and small power savings add up. -- George N. White III
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