• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    21 hours ago

    When you say hibernation, do you mean essentially powered off?

    My understanding is that hibernation has always meant that the system is 100% off, but that when it next boots it can read from disk into RAM and then let you resume where you were before you shut down. I ask because “waking” a system in hibernate means turning it on, and it goes through the normal boot process. If it’s still on in some way, that doesn’t sound like hibernation to me. It sounds like “sleep” or “suspend” (ugh, but there are now annoying s<number> states that add confusion to all that.)