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the OS pretending to be dead without actually dying, to save you from a low-battery funeral.

means the power-saving modes a computer uses between fully on and fully off, trading wake-up speed for energy savings.

from formalized in the mid-1990s ACPI spec (Intel, Microsoft, Toshiba), which numbered them S0 through S5 so every OS and BIOS could agree on what dead meant.

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