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by wsx 3794 days ago
Sorry, I forgot about ACPI :)

Now that you posted this, I think I recall one friend telling me that hibernation killed his laptop. But this was over 10 years ago and I only know about one such incident.

OTOH, what UEFI gave us is basically a portable and convenient API to brick any machine from any OS.