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Slightly off-topic: my PC always comes back to the login screen immediately after I manually use "sleep" from the power menu. I have to to the sleep thing again. Has anyone else run into this issue?

My Mac Mini M4 is on its way. Can't wait to stop dealing with this mess.

(Just this morning, I noticed that the login dialog for network drives, which has worked fine for decades, has misaligned text fields. I don't want to think how this could possibly happen.)

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> my PC always comes back to the login screen immediately after I manually use "sleep" from the power menu. I have to to the sleep thing again. Has anyone else run into this issue?

Yes. By default moving the mouse or brushing the trackpad wakes the PC up... so when you have a fast machine it goes to sleep quicker than you can take your hand off the mouse. The solution is to turn off 'Allow device to wake' for the mouse in device manager. Well, that's been my experience anyway, there could be other causes I'm not aware of.

This can be one cause, but sometimes the computer wakes up for no reason at all, even when not touching anything.

External mouse on the table moves when you bump into the table. And that wakes the computer.

Gets me every time. I have even started turning the mouse upside down to avoid this :(

No I always use keyboard for that.

I have a bluetooth mouse that will wake my desktop, untouched; I physically switch it off when I'm away from home

> my PC always comes back to the login screen immediately after I manually use "sleep" from the power menu.

> My Mac Mini M4 is on its way.

Hate to tell you, but my Mac does the same stupid thing. I have to physically yank the HDMI cable.

This happens regularly for me too, and Luke Lafreniere (from Linus Media Group) reported this too during WAN Show. He said that he sometimes has to hit sleep 3–4 times before his PC actually stays in sleep mode.

Do you have a link for that? Now I am curious. Those videos are 3 hours long and there are too many of them.

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