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I uncovered an ACPI bug in my Dell Inspiron 5567. It was plaguing me for 8 years

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194 points thunderbong | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 11:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.885s | source
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pjc50 ◴[22 Sep 25 10:40 UTC] No.45331551[source]▶
See recently: https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

I get the impression that, in hardware companies, software is often not taken very seriously, when it can cripple the user experience for trivial bugs. It's also annoying that it's "proprietary" rather than open source, when hundreds of models will be using the same chipset in the same way. It's not a competitive advantage, the sleep code, it can only be a disadvantage if it's done badly.

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1. Wowfunhappy ◴[22 Sep 25 13:06 UTC] No.45332893[source]▶
Well, if your competitors do it badly and you do it well, it could be a competitive advantage…
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2. zokier ◴[22 Sep 25 13:56 UTC] No.45333559[source]▶
We are somewhere between market for lemons and a race to the bottom. It's both difficult to even a tech-savvy person to know if some problem is caused by acpi, and also if some acpi implementation is actually high quality.
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3. robotnikman ◴[22 Sep 25 17:43 UTC] No.45336904[source]▶
One of the reasons why my next laptop will probably be a Framework. I got lucky with my current one which has worked flawlessly so far, but who knows if I would be lucky with the next one I buy?