Hi, is the reboot on inactivity automated for you? Is there a way to ask the computer to save the current session and shut down if I dont use it for, say, 6 hours?
Lemmy: we need to do everything we can for the environment!
Also Lemmy: this thread.
Remember folks, unless your grid is 100% renewables (or split with nuclear), you’re consuming coal or gas power. It may not be much on an individual scale, but it adds up. For coal it’s approximately 1kg of CO2 per KWh, slightly more for petroleum, and 350g for gas.
Edit: apparently OP is running away from the downvotes. Previously they were calling people idiots, stupid, etc for criticizing them.
I like my PC like I like my lights: off when not in use for extended periods of time. Again, doesn’t spend that much power, especially in the world of LEDs; and there are exceptions, like if you’re doing rendering, or compiling code or what have you, but if your PC is idle during the night, turn it off. We have ssds now, so it’s not even like startup time is a reasonable excuse. However, boasting about your PC uptime when our powerplants are poisoning the world is asinine.
Great job asshole, you’re bragging about how your polluting more than others.
Always less than 24 hours. Why should I waste a lot of power for nothing? My PC is off when I sleep or leave the house for work.
Windows 11 currently, so regular restarts also help with stability (and I don’t even notice updates, they happen on shutdown when I’m already on my way to bed).
My server obviously runs Linux and is on 24/7 in a datacenter.
Up until last week I had been running a esxi server on my old desktop. It had been up continuously for about 2 years nearly and technically it's still ran fine just it was time for an upgrade.
I know you specifically said no servers but I figured since it was commodity hardware then it should pass muster right?
Even in the 2000s I never understood that fascination for uptime and how it has somehow come to be seen as a badge of honor. What's the purpose of bragging with how much power you're wasting?
11 days 3 hours. i did write a script that suspends the pc to memory and rtcwake at a specified time, as basically my alarm clock. and during work, its suspended to disk. so, of those 11 days its been properly running for maybe 2 days.
My PC is off, power is off as well. I never keep my PC running when I’m not using it. I’ll power it down and turn off the power on the power brick. It’s what I was taught when growing up, and in a time of SSDs I see little downside.
I know, I know. But when I learned how to use a computer at school 20 years ago it wasn’t an option or if it was the teachers didn’t want to take any risk.
It was actually the opposite: Further back in the day you made sure nothing was running and then you flipped a switch, or just shut the machine off (similar to holding the button nowadays, it was just off, that’s it).
Then around Windows 95 and NT a proper shutdown became necessary to avoid data corruption, so the go-to was shut it down first in the software, then you had to shut down the hardware (Windows couldn’t actually power off your machine back then).
Windows 98 was the first Windows with ACPI, which allows it to fully shut down your computer. So from then on all you had to do was select shutdown and that’s it. I couldn’t really find out when a soft power off (by short pressing the button) was first released, but it was probably around that time.
But kids are stupid, if you tell them to press the power button several of them will just hold it till the PC dies. So selecting shutdown has been the best option since Windows 98 and it still is today.
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