@[email protected] to PC Master [email protected]English • 2 years agoa nice problem to havelemmy.oneimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1785
arrow-up1785imagea nice problem to havelemmy.one@[email protected] to PC Master [email protected]English • 2 years agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•2 years agoEveryone should. It’s wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoNo, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoI’m gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke
minus-squareDrDominatelinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 years agoOr they put their computers to sleep instead of a full shutdown.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 years agoAt that point you might as well turn it off.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•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.
No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.
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.
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.)