Where's the outrage from the colossal carbon footprint of the overarching, advertising-based economy? Does anyone have any idea what the electrical costs or carbon footprint per dollar of ad revenue is? It surely must be one of the lowest returns per environmental impact in the entire spectrum of capitalism. Then I realized that some middle manager in the guts of Microsoft probably got a bonus by being able to tell his management that 'Microsoft' was now saving a collective million pennies a year of energy costs by crippling this basic feature.
It took me 2 weeks of hair pulling and updating everything before I realized why my mouse and keyboard would stop working, because it NEVER occurred to me in my WILDEST dreams that an OS developer would be given the insane task of creating a timeout like this, and writing a UI to control it. all the way down to Microsoft setting the default timeout for Bluetooth on Windows 11 to ONE MINUTE. So many people so concerned about CO2 emissions from computing devices.