>>speckx+(OP)
https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/mac-help/mh40774/mac

This seems to be available as a first party config option

>>sugarp+Z9
Like, "Intel older"? Those had terrible thermal management for a laptop. An "older" laptop with a dead battery or one misreporting is not uncommon and has no bearing on how modern laptops, be they from Dell, HP, or Apple, perform. You could have 500+ cycles on any laptop and see the behavior you're claiming is terrible power management.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102888

Get a semi-new Apple laptop and then let us know how terrible the power management is.

>>sangee+pa
It's not the macOS 26, its the option is not available on Apple Silicon machines. I think it is always enabled.

https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/mac-help/mh40774/15.0/...

Turn Power Nap on or off for a Mac desktop computer On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Energy in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Turn on Enable Power Nap. Note: This option is only available on Intel-based Mac computers.

You can see (and change) the settings via Terminal, 'pmset -g' will show the current options.

>>speckx+(OP)
I'm using this instead: https://gist.github.com/mijorus/b9fabea963fabd435139654c6ebe...

Turn off WiFi when going to sleep, turn it back on on wake.

I don't need my laptop to be doing things when it's in my bag. It's not a phone, unlike what Apple seems to think...

>>speckx+(OP)
Funnily I wrote almost the same blog post last week, sadly that solution didn't work for me as there's some other processes that are not power nap that wake up my Macs: https://annoying.technology/posts/3e451c7b/

>>atombe+xg
Maybe we need an app that’s like this and does it for apps that are in the business of keeping the Mac awake https://objective-see.org/products/knockknock.html

But that would require the app to at least register somewhere in advance to be able to achieve that, if not a full fledged permission.