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I just let my computer run all the time. Disable all sleep functionality except monitor sleep. Then it always works when I need it to.

My life is way too short to fool around with stuff like this to save $5 in electricity and have to deal with the inevitiable "won't wake up" or "wakes up in a brain-damaged state" situations.

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I've used Suspend-to-RAM for years on Windows, and it's always worked reliably, rarely needed fooling around with...

Try to control it remotely with SSH and wake-on-lan. Not so reliable.

It is not as hard, but requires a device in the middle to send the magic packets from time to time. Using my home desktop like this for years, 10 years ago it was a native feature of my tomato based router back then. Today it is with a small script that sshes into the openwrt router and sends the magic packet to the PC, but very similar in terms of UX.

I'm tempted to do this as well, given the likelihood of everything working if/when my linux desktop (or laptop) actually wakes up is about 50/50 these days.

I do this too. I'm on a Mac and use an app called "Amphetamine" to keep the machine active (it's the successor to "Caffeine" IIRC).

However, I dim the screen to black when I go to sleep, since it's the only component that can't really "idle" - it's consuming power as long as it's displaying pixels, and thus it would also be the first component to die from overuse even while "idling."

I use a native CLI app for keeping macOS awake:

caffeinate -d

I got the Mac Mini M1, it only needs ~7W when idle and up to 35W at full load. Runs quiet as a mouse

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