15 years ago the intel apple computers were using timer interrupts to wake up at night and do god knows what.

I know because that machine was loud so I got woken up whenever it was doing that.

Microsoft of course decided that they had to copy this stupid decision, but using a timer interrupt to wake up and then sleep again was too easy, so now we have modern standby which means I must shut down my machine if I am not sure when I'll use it again, because the battery drains fast.