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1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 11:41:41 EST Hypolite Petovan

   I am increasingly displeased with my new MSI laptop's power management and I'm not sure if it's a Windows or MSI problem:
   - When I enable automatic sleep while plugged in, it will occasionally stay stuck sleeping while the fans are screeching. Only a force shutdown will let me use the computer again.
   - When I disable automatic sleep while plugged, the screen will never shut down, even after I manually lock the screen.
   - Since neither the keyboard nor the associated SteelSeries software account for it, I had to create a macro to navigate the Windows menu to the Sleep function. When used, the Windows menu is still open when awakened.
   - When manually put to sleep this way, the laptop will eventually hibernate by itself, slowing down the awakening cycle.

   My previous Asus laptop running Windows 10 didn't have any of these shortcomings which makes me wonder whether it's another Windows 11 gripe or poor compared engineering at MSI or both.

   1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 13-Apr-2024 16:59:02 EDT Hypolite Petovan

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      New woes since I wrote this:
      - Dota 2 randomly crashes back to desktop, sometimes several times in the same evening. At other times it works flawlessly.
      - The "FN" key used to illuminate the keys that can be used with it. Now it happens when I press the letter "T"??? Pretty distracting to have the keyboard quickly switch colors whenever I'm typing some text.
      - It automatically restarted twice in a couple days, which made me lose work in a software I left open. Interestingly, on the first restart, it was able to rescue the file I was working on. Not on the second time. 😞

      I've contacted the seller, I'm not hoping for much but it's the worst computer I've ever own, surely there's a way not to flush $2,500 down the drain?