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I also want it that way. Keeping my steam games updated or keeping apps like discord or slack showing me online is great. I'd rather a modern operating system solve modern issues with modern solutions. They really should have a mode like this in Linux if they don't already.
For a phone I'm are more likely than not to have with me, I could understand. But for a laptop, and especially for a desktop, if the machine is asleep, I'm not at it. Why is it great for a computer I don't have with me to show me as online in discord or slack?
We have all kind of things that can run in the background, if they can continue to run but on exponentially lower power, why not?
Sure, there are things that make sense to do in the background. The example of installing updates was a good one. But I was asking specifically about the example that was given of making you appear online on a chat service, because I just can't see the use case for that.
Oh my mistake lol, some people are just social and being seen as present is important to them. I'm not one of them but I know a number of people who are - a few years younger than I which I've wondered if growing up more linked to socials attributes to that mindset.
People in my group use these tricks for work chats to at least look active if they're not. For friends? I don't think I'd care lol.