aren’t pretty much all Li(Fe)Po cells made cheaply in China?

Yeah, I do agree it’s a fair bit of Apple-bashing. I’ve also learned by reading through other replies in this thread that apparently Apple’s standby mode is very reliable and consumes <1W. It’s apparently also very easy to wake back up.

I can say none of that about my Windows and Linux machines 😅 so that may be where my confusion came from

And then how do you turn it back on?

I’m with you in general - but the original timeline sounds much so much more quacky than what OP posted that in this instance I’m fine with it