empireOfLove to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoa nice problem to haveexternal-linkmessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1813
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minus-squarejdrch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoWho actually turns off their computer?
minus-squareHW07@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·2 years agoEveryone should. It’s wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.
minus-squaresir_pronoun@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoI’m gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke
minus-squareDrDominate@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoOr they put their computers to sleep instead of a full shutdown.
minus-squareHW07@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoAt that point you might as well turn it off.
minus-squareOzzah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoHibernate keeps all your applications open.
minus-squarejdrch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoNo, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.
minus-squarejdrch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWindows is my daily driver and all my PCs run 24/7/52 unless they’re sleeping while I commute with them 🤷♂️ (I also run Linux, BSD, and macOS.)
Who actually turns off their computer?
Everyone should. It’s wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.
I’m gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke
Or they put their computers to sleep instead of a full shutdown.
Hibernate?
At that point you might as well turn it off.
Hibernate keeps all your applications open.
No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.
Windows users
Windows is my daily driver and all my PCs run 24/7/52 unless they’re sleeping while I commute with them 🤷♂️
(I also run Linux, BSD, and macOS.)