I struggle with this for my personal computer. The TV-computer combo shuts off the monitor (triggers the tv to shut off when there is no input) after an hour. An hour after that it’s suspended, works well.
My personal computer though, sometimes I shut off the monitor, most of the time I let it run for the day completely powered. I have yet to set any type of shutdown or standby because typically I use it more than I do my tv (work, gaming, videos, etc on the comp). I know there’s some power conservation I need to consider for motivation, I have no security concern atm with my standard main account and everything private is layered so inaccessible.
tl;dr
what’s everyone else’s setup like for when they walk away from the computer?
Computer off, monitor goes into standby. Using Wake on Lan app to boot computer since it is tucked away under desk
It’s usually off unless I expect to be back relatively soon. Startup times aren’t an issue nowadays
Yeah, my PC is booted and ready to go faster than my TV turns on
My desktop PC stays on through out the day, but I turn it off when I’m sleeping, mostly because it flashes the power button LED in sleep mode, which sometimes prevents me from sleeping. I usually turn of the monitor for the same reason (LED button stays on).
My macbook is set to sleep/lock itself after some period of inactivity, and when I’m done for the day, I usually just close it. The only time I fully turn it off is when I’m traveling and trying to save as much battery as I can.
Damn, I was going to upvote the comment that says “my computer is on and running, 24 hours a day” but nobody said it yet 🙁 sorry Earth…
Well, that’s me then.
Never know when I’m going to need it, and it’s usually doing some kind of work overnight (processing media files, syncing files around, etc).
I schedule that stuff for when I should be asleep - less heat in the house during the day, it’s off-peak power (doesn’t make a noticeable difference to my bill, but why not).
If i need it, I can pause those things.
But I also have a NAS that can do this stuff, but it can only do so much at once.
I shut down, but Fedora boots for me in like 15-20 seconds. My drive encryption is a tiny bit annoying to double log in, but I have longer mental loading pauses all the time, so who am I to complain as if those few seconds are somehow a chore or inconvenience to the calories crusher sponge. Fully cycling RAM off regularly is by-far a best-practice until we live in a Rust-y world.
My computer is a plex server, a homeassistant server, it runs cron jobs, there’s a web server with some automation and browsing utilities I use throughout the day. It’s on 24/7, doesn’t sleep.
Same. Only reason I lock it when I leave the house is so my cat can’t crawl around on the keyboard and fuck with shit.
Desktop was turned off 5 years ago.
Laptop just gets shut and hibernates.
If I had a desktop still it depends. If it resumes from standby fast I’d let it sleep right away. If it’s not a fast resume I’d set it to something reasonable like 45 minutes.
I haven’t turned off my laptop in close to 10 years. I just flip the screen and it’s good to go tomorrow. A marvellous workhorse.
Same, I turn off monitors and do the 3 finger salute. Only turn it off for cleaning. Been doing this since my first 486 PC.
Desktop 24/7 on with some docker containers
Laptop, I just close it when I’m done
Both I only reboot for updates at least once a month
If it’s just a for a few minutes then I just leave it running. If I’m going to be gone for 45 minutes or more I shut it down. Then throw the power switch on the surge protector. No need to use the electricity.
I do wish Pop!_OS had a better hibernate/sleep mode.
My computer just stays on until I turn it off or the battery dies.
Either lock it or full device shutdown. A device i am not actively using doesn’t need to be running while I sleep or produce network traffic.
A device i am not actively using doesn’t need to be running while I sleep or produce network traffic.
How often do you produce network traffic?
I gots me the 5g from the covid shots 🤓
After 30mins of inactivity my account locks and my screens blank. Few seconds after that my monitors go to standby. That’s it. I never shutdown unless something necessitates it and I only really reboot for updates if they require it. My PC basically stays on 24/7 and I’ve never had any issues. Current build has parts all the way back from 2015/2016 with no failures to speak of.
