Getting old may beat the alternatives, but it sure is kind of shit on its
own terms in a lot of ways.

To be honest I don't even know if this worked.

So when I got home from the office, I could actually smell burning coming
out of my laptop bag. It turns out that, minus gnome-power-manager, this
thing doesn't know how to go into sleep mode when you close the lid.

It's hard for me to fully express how much I hate the idea of this stuff
being handled by a random user-space application that sits in a little
tray area. This is exactly the kind of shit we have all for years now
boggled that Windows users so blithely tolerate.

But whatever. It works.