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The ultra-dark dark modes really bug me, black with various shades of black or dark colors is almost impossible to see UI elements on easily.
Dark modes should be like in the 50% gray area, where it's dim but things can still have good contrast.
Out of curiosity, what is the difference between older S3 sleep and modern sleep?
Modern sleep keeps a network connection active so it can still check your email or whatever stupid reason they came up with.
S3 sleep powers down all major components except for RAM. Modern sleep also keeps the CPU and network up, albeit in a low power state. It's not always executed well, hence the reports of laptops cooking themselves in a bag or draining overnight despite being "in sleep mode".
Also doesn't hibernate write your RAM contents to your disk? That sounds like a great way to leak your passwords and encryption keys in plaintext. Also you need to always reserve the same amount of space on disk as your RAM and can't use that space for anything else on the off chance you might want to hibernate.
At least for windows the hibernation file is stored as a file on the C: drive, so will be encrypted by bitlocker along with your other data.
Wouldn't that also mean that when the file gets overwritten, i.e the next time the system hibernates, you can potentially run a data recovery program on the C filesystem to leak its previous contents since modern filesystems don't necessarily immediately overwrite the underlying data anymore, but usually just change the regions on the drive the file points to? So you could have ghost memory dumps hiding out in your free space just waiting for malware to access. You can definitely recover data from the free space of a Bitlocker volume because the encryption is transparent to the filesystem.
This is also why I don't like swap files and always disable them (or use an OS like Fedora that doesn't have them by default), because it kind of defeats the point of only storing some data in RAM for security.
I could just be ignorant of how memory files in storage are managed though.
Ah, that's exactly what mine does sometimes.
I don't think light modes were as glaring in the past, first of all monitors were smaller, second I don't think they were as bright.