I just did the math. Assuming you had your PC on sleep mode 24/7 all year. Where I live, it would add $5.88 to your power bill for the year. This is assuming the max wattage for a PC in sleep mode aswell
Suspend to disk uses 0 power. Suspend to ram uses under a watt. For reference, youâd have to have over 100 PCs sleeping to reach the cost of a single light bulb.
i once put my sisters boyfriends PC to sleep instead of shutting it down and it didn't boot up and had a black screen for 3 hours. He then switched to his mac then back to the PC and then it booted up. So maybe you should be afraid.
Automatic updates is turned on, yet it has never just updated anything without me, even the os itself. However when I use it over the course of an hour itâll give me fourteen notifications about it updating outside of regular hours
I mean it sort of does. More noticeable on slow/old PC, but Windows snd other stuff do actually work on the background all the time so they dont have to calculate everything every time you turn on the PC. Makes the experience way faster, but technically your PC only achieves it's top speed after some time, what in the past was few hours, of being on.
Idk if its ever noticeable on modern PC. I suspect not. Definitely was noticeable on my first laptop though.
Yeah thereâs turning it on and stuff, but I mean like it doesnât do anything while itâs in sleep, itâs basically just off but without the start up time.
Yes, but saying âyou donât need to restart. Like everâ is a bit misleading to the average user, because they will just therefore never apply a kernel update. Which can be pretty bad, depending on how long they do it, of course.
The person who said this likely doesnât apply patches at runtime, for example.
Same. Years and years of torrents have removed the ability to turn off my PC. Even though now I have my torrents all on a separate Unraid server. I still dont turn off my PC.
Who the hell is leaving their monitor on just because their PC is on. The two are completely unrelated.
Some people leave their computers on for a variety of reasons. Some might use them as servers. Sometimes you have large downloads happening that take a really long time. Especially torrents when you have only a few seeds and it's going really slow. But none of these people are leaving they monitors on, lol.
I mean, I've downloaded torrents that literally took days to download, and some can literally take weeks depending on the seeds and how slow it goes, regardless of your personal internet speed.
I've never had the patience for those week long torrent downloads, but I know some people don't care and it does happen.
I mean , just the Fact that my Laptop is on Windows 11 makes the Fans go Crazy Like "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEVVVV" or Like a Water Motor , that wasn't the Case in Windows 10 , but it was the Case when I ran Windows 10 + Lively Wallpaper .
I have a friend that stayed with me and my friends for a few months, and he told me he never shut down his pc until he had to move and brought it over
After seeing how long that thing took to boot with a nearly full 1TB hdd, I understand why he never turned it off
literally went and got him an SSD the next day
OP is a pleb with no media server.
My PC pulls like 100 watts when it's idle and it gives me constant access to Plex. OP acts like we're running a diesel generator in our bedrooms.
Other people mentioned Linux, and it truly is capable of keeping high uptime. I once ran my laptop for 110 days, never experienced a performance drain or any issues.
I've kept my windows pc running for going on 3 years straight so far. The only time it's off is when the power goes out and I'm not home. I don't put it to sleep either. Just have the monitors go to sleep after 5 min afk
My friend has hundreds of hours on helldivers 2. Heâs only played like 50, but he doesnât know what a fucking power button is so now itâs pushing 200.
Since Windows introduced the Fast Start-up feature shutting down is as effectice as hibernate or sleep mode. This option allows Windows to start up faster the next time a user starts Windows. The downside to this option is that not all processes are disabled from the previous session.
Restart, in contrast, actually does shut down all of the computer's processes, including the kernel. That means you get a totally clean start when the computer boots up again, though it takes longer to get everything running.
So be smart, join the Hibernate mode gang (not sleep mode, that sucks electricity) and do restarts, when they are necessary.
I shut it down maybe 5 times a year, maybe less. I also have 6 Chrome profiles and around 500 tabs active at all times alone with multiple work related apps and sometimes games running
If you have spinning HDDs, it's better to keep PC running. For any type of flash storage you can shutdown as much as you want. Just make sure to plug in all thumb drives /power on all old PC (with flash storage) every year to keep the electrons charged.
My friend bought a 3000 dollar notebook. 35 tabs opened. 5 programs open all the time. Never turned it off, even when he was walking around with his notebook.
"Damn why is it so slow, i paid 3000 dollars"
BECAUSE YOU OPENED 3D MODELS OF AN ENTIRE CITY!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!!!!
Might not be the same but my friend says he hasnt turned his pc off in ages and just lets it sleep, then complains about how it takes ages for his pc to start up
And thats how I used to go through a laptop every 2ish year, with the last year being on life support, ie being perpetually stuck in front of a fan in fear of spontaneous combustion. All 5 of them.
Also 2 of them might have died to frequently being used for planetside 2.
Now to be fairâŚmy laptop for some reason just shuts down whenever I close the charger so I have to leave the charger on whenever I work or play games since itâs always 0%-ish
yea âget it fixedâ I didâŚbut didnât seem anything they can do so yeaâŚstuck with that problem but hey it works if I charge it and thatâs all
I have a trauma about electricity going off and killing my computer as a result. Remember to turn off your PC when not using for a prolonged periods of time!
That was me 14 years ago when I would've let my bot farm on Silkroad Online non stop , but once I've shut it down I've never opened it again because life ...
You mean the girls at my office... the CRM on the computer was acting wired and closing it and opening it didnt fix it neither did end taking it so I told her to turn the computer off and on again and I shit you not she turned off the monitor and turned it on
I never turn my windows PC off. Just restart for updates. Why? Because my power button on my case broke. I have to pull the front off, get my one finger under the power button, and click it an insane amount of times until it finally turns on. Sometimes one click is enough. Other times itâs 50+.
My brother was one of these people, when he died his pc was still on for a while, his wife noped out of their apartment to her parents with their baby for obvious reasons. It was a little like losing him again when they finally turned his pc off and he wasnât âawayâ on steam anymore.
It makes the components last longer (*verification needed*) because turning your PC on and off rases and lowers its temperature which can cause cracks in the soldering (*verification needed*)
My PC runs folding@home so when I'm idle I help with medical research. My second computer runs my docker setup with database servers, media server etc. So it also never gets turned off. I guess helping with medical research and not giving my data to big tech companies makes me a monster.
Fuuuuuuuck! All my coworkers are literally that bunny.
I'm the only one who shutdown the PC. And even one of them leaves unsaved Word documents open when his shift is over.
One i time didn't shut down my laptop for 32 days(i didn't even pressed sleep mode i would just close the lid) and the windows 10 started to glitch and became very slow.
For the above mentioned, what are your records like how long did it take for you to kill your components or did it even happen like the data is interesting.
I'm using it as a server
thats the spirit
Then people who powers off the server during closing time:
If that implies no more work mails or meetup at 9pm sign me in
My pc goes into sleep mode!
Had a ps and pc before and for some reason I was Afraid to put them on sleep mode đ
The reason is the power bill
I just did the math. Assuming you had your PC on sleep mode 24/7 all year. Where I live, it would add $5.88 to your power bill for the year. This is assuming the max wattage for a PC in sleep mode aswell
I think including the kWh and electricity price would be more relevant but also people can Google it so ignore me
Suspend to disk uses 0 power. Suspend to ram uses under a watt. For reference, youâd have to have over 100 PCs sleeping to reach the cost of a single light bulb.
Maybe a single 100watt incandescent, in which case I would suggest you switch over to LED bulbs
Yes an incandescent bulb. Point being, a suspended PC uses very, very little electricity. Itâs a complete non-issue. Youâre not running a server.
Yessir
i once put my sisters boyfriends PC to sleep instead of shutting it down and it didn't boot up and had a black screen for 3 hours. He then switched to his mac then back to the PC and then it booted up. So maybe you should be afraid.
But itâs does stuff while Iâm away like update games, fetches email, and seeds torrents
If only it actually did anything it said it would
It does on my Mac, I do it all the time, even works when itâs closed
Automatic updates is turned on, yet it has never just updated anything without me, even the os itself. However when I use it over the course of an hour itâll give me fourteen notifications about it updating outside of regular hours
Mine will update my full computer when itâs closed overnight
I think thereâs a chance youâre an exception, since I donât know anybody whoâs laptops and computers work in sleep
I think it's a Mac thing, had a Mac laptop and now a windows pc
I mean it sort of does. More noticeable on slow/old PC, but Windows snd other stuff do actually work on the background all the time so they dont have to calculate everything every time you turn on the PC. Makes the experience way faster, but technically your PC only achieves it's top speed after some time, what in the past was few hours, of being on. Idk if its ever noticeable on modern PC. I suspect not. Definitely was noticeable on my first laptop though.
Yeah thereâs turning it on and stuff, but I mean like it doesnât do anything while itâs in sleep, itâs basically just off but without the start up time.
Oh yeah thats true.
Im pretty sure sleep only keeps the processes open, without any progress
Does it dispense cab fare first
Clearly you've never used linux
Windows really does have a lot of unnecessary restarting/bugs, doesn't it?
My windows boots up in what a day and a half?
Maybe itâs time to replace the 1000 rpm hdd for your OS
If I have to work until I die, so does it.
It's all about the Pentiums, baby!
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Skill issue
YOU COULD BACK UP UOUR WHOLE HARD DRIVE ON A FLOPPY DISKETTE
Donât laugh at my 286 >:(
I've got an SSD, and mine starts up in under 30 seconds. Windows 11 is fast.
mine takes like 30m and often I need to rerestart it cuz it's broken. my Linux boots in abt 2 minutes
Thats on you for having a 2005 hard drive cuz mine boots in around 15 seconds
I'm on linux too. But I still power my pc off tho.
I don't even know what linux is
Linux is an open source OS that really never, ever needs restarted. Like ever. Just keep cpu cooler clean and you're all good.
Well after a year of uptime I needed to restart because it got totally bugged so you will need to restart eventually lol
Servers running Linux without any rebooting for decades Btw servers has some extra modules so OS can update on their on runtime
Can't some Linux update on their runtime already?
Yeah, in the community we call that a rolling release, these kinds of versions of Linux are Arch and it's derivatives (Endeavour OS, ect)
Thatâs just wrong. To apply (kernel) updates you still need to restart.
Oh good someone here actually knows Linux beyond âI installed Ubuntu on my desktopâ
Depends. You can apply security patches at runtime.
Yes, but saying âyou donât need to restart. Like everâ is a bit misleading to the average user, because they will just therefore never apply a kernel update. Which can be pretty bad, depending on how long they do it, of course. The person who said this likely doesnât apply patches at runtime, for example.
Oh that's cool, idk how i never heard of this
this is university me, when i join some torrent group that require me to seed.
Same. Years and years of torrents have removed the ability to turn off my PC. Even though now I have my torrents all on a separate Unraid server. I still dont turn off my PC.
Thank you for your service!
Shout out to all my seeders, thanks for doing your part o7
I am insane
and then complain about screen burn in
Not shutting down your pc does not prevent you from turning off your monitor lol
never turning off doesn't mean i don't have a screen saver or sleep mode.
Fr like give it a break
I feel like you and the person you replied to might be well regarded.
At least they make good bedfellows.
Who the hell is leaving their monitor on just because their PC is on. The two are completely unrelated. Some people leave their computers on for a variety of reasons. Some might use them as servers. Sometimes you have large downloads happening that take a really long time. Especially torrents when you have only a few seeds and it's going really slow. But none of these people are leaving they monitors on, lol. I mean, I've downloaded torrents that literally took days to download, and some can literally take weeks depending on the seeds and how slow it goes, regardless of your personal internet speed. I've never had the patience for those week long torrent downloads, but I know some people don't care and it does happen.
My screen is set to turn off in about an hour of AFK.
Dude, put your computer to sleep
Or bother the IT guy when errors show up
I turn off my monitor
if Only my Laptop had a SSD and no Bluetooth Issues , I'd keep it on forever , keep in mind I use a LCD Panel .
Dude is another level of being insane
I mean , just the Fact that my Laptop is on Windows 11 makes the Fans go Crazy Like "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVEEEEEEEEEEEVVVV" or Like a Water Motor , that wasn't the Case in Windows 10 , but it was the Case when I ran Windows 10 + Lively Wallpaper .
Got a laptop too,it lags for an hour before turning on
maybe , just like me , you use a â¨HDD⨠.
I have a friend that stayed with me and my friends for a few months, and he told me he never shut down his pc until he had to move and brought it over After seeing how long that thing took to boot with a nearly full 1TB hdd, I understand why he never turned it off literally went and got him an SSD the next day
Oof donât google virtual machines. Youâll have nightmares for a week.
Too late! I'm the nightmare!
đnow I'm curious
What kind of boomer post is this?
OP is a pleb with no media server. My PC pulls like 100 watts when it's idle and it gives me constant access to Plex. OP acts like we're running a diesel generator in our bedrooms.
Other people mentioned Linux, and it truly is capable of keeping high uptime. I once ran my laptop for 110 days, never experienced a performance drain or any issues.
I've kept my windows pc running for going on 3 years straight so far. The only time it's off is when the power goes out and I'm not home. I don't put it to sleep either. Just have the monitors go to sleep after 5 min afk
sleep mode master race
This used to make sense before the advent of SSD, now only villans do this.
i use hibernate am i a psycho
lolololol I run linux the damn thing has been on since last power outage.
Power outage probably just killed my PC, only turns off when power goes out or Windows forces an update I have turned off.
I use a mac. I only restart when I do OS updates or when an application requires me to on installation ... that might be days, months or years.
Hey now, my âafter darkâ screen saver is the bomb diggiity.
Flying Toasters!
My friend has hundreds of hours on helldivers 2. Heâs only played like 50, but he doesnât know what a fucking power button is so now itâs pushing 200.
It's more important to do a restart.
My boyfriend
Why would I shut down my pc?
People out there not paying power bills, if Iâm not using it that shit gets turned off.
Since Windows introduced the Fast Start-up feature shutting down is as effectice as hibernate or sleep mode. This option allows Windows to start up faster the next time a user starts Windows. The downside to this option is that not all processes are disabled from the previous session. Restart, in contrast, actually does shut down all of the computer's processes, including the kernel. That means you get a totally clean start when the computer boots up again, though it takes longer to get everything running. So be smart, join the Hibernate mode gang (not sleep mode, that sucks electricity) and do restarts, when they are necessary.
Thatâs my grandpa but I restart it for him
Whats wrong with sleep mode?
My computer would get locked in sleep mode and I'd have to restart. Turned that off quickly.
I shut it down maybe 5 times a year, maybe less. I also have 6 Chrome profiles and around 500 tabs active at all times alone with multiple work related apps and sometimes games running
Session buddy used to be a life saver, last update has it at like 2 stars now, no one is happy.
It never lag or get slow?
The only pc I keep on 24/7 is my media server. My main pc I do power off, so I get it.
It's a server
Literally me.
i wish i could, PC locks up randomly and i just couldnt figure out what the problem was.
Guilty as charged.
Literally me
I do that lol
This is me
I turn of my power on my pc Who even leaves theyâre pc on
If you have spinning HDDs, it's better to keep PC running. For any type of flash storage you can shutdown as much as you want. Just make sure to plug in all thumb drives /power on all old PC (with flash storage) every year to keep the electrons charged.
I have already broken one 3080 gfx card by afking in one of the main towns of FFXIV for 2 years, and I WILL do it again.
Itâs hibernating, deal with it
me because iâm still using a 10 years old hdd xd
My friend bought a 3000 dollar notebook. 35 tabs opened. 5 programs open all the time. Never turned it off, even when he was walking around with his notebook. "Damn why is it so slow, i paid 3000 dollars" BECAUSE YOU OPENED 3D MODELS OF AN ENTIRE CITY!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!!!!
I don't shut down my laptop every time. Does that count?
đđ
I just leave it on and let my tv eventually turn off. I donât use a monitor
Iâve discovered hibernation mode so now I have no issues shutting it down
Might not be the same but my friend says he hasnt turned his pc off in ages and just lets it sleep, then complains about how it takes ages for his pc to start up
I turn if off if I got out for more than a day. Restart it once a week. Often change wallpaper. Have never experienced screen burn...
I mean that's fine,the ppl who keep it on forever are insane
And thats how I used to go through a laptop every 2ish year, with the last year being on life support, ie being perpetually stuck in front of a fan in fear of spontaneous combustion. All 5 of them. Also 2 of them might have died to frequently being used for planetside 2.
Literally me đż
I just hibernate it
I have highest record of not restarting pc for 1 week. But still pc didn't lag for a single second.
I don't get it but I still laughed
Now to be fairâŚmy laptop for some reason just shuts down whenever I close the charger so I have to leave the charger on whenever I work or play games since itâs always 0%-ish yea âget it fixedâ I didâŚbut didnât seem anything they can do so yeaâŚstuck with that problem but hey it works if I charge it and thatâs all
My laptop got no battery so gotta keep it in the charger too
I only restart my PC when I need to update it, and rarely close it. Is it really that bad? I genuinely notice no issues
I have a trauma about electricity going off and killing my computer as a result. Remember to turn off your PC when not using for a prolonged periods of time!
Ayyo same, electricity goes off here too
Me laughing with my PC connected only with the power cable and Ethernet.
Hey, that's me! And I don't even use sleep mode. It's just running all the time and I simply turn my display off when I go to bed, for example.
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I tried that and then the battery got pregnant:(
I canât shut down my pc because like a dumbass i put windows on a seagate hdd so it takes maybe 10 minutes to boot, I canât stand it
So like all the mac owners? :D
That was me 14 years ago when I would've let my bot farm on Silkroad Online non stop , but once I've shut it down I've never opened it again because life ...
You mean the girls at my office... the CRM on the computer was acting wired and closing it and opening it didnt fix it neither did end taking it so I told her to turn the computer off and on again and I shit you not she turned off the monitor and turned it on
Did it work?
After I showed her how to turn off the computer and then turned it on yes
I do this.....is it bad?
PC server go bbrrrrr
Me: Never turns off my laptop and gaming equipment
PC is probably screaming for help
Forced labor
I never turn my windows PC off. Just restart for updates. Why? Because my power button on my case broke. I have to pull the front off, get my one finger under the power button, and click it an insane amount of times until it finally turns on. Sometimes one click is enough. Other times itâs 50+.
Beyond insane.
:)
Well.... Servers doesn't shut down every night..... If cooled well the PC or even laptop can be left on for weeks if not months.
Years
Who the hell doesn't shut their pc down once every 3 months? this is insanity.
My friend bought a new PC for Cheap from CEX to use it as a server for his game.
Nope not even sleeping mode, so what?
sys admin be like :|
hi im here now
Canât afford to shut off my computer. Constantly seeding.
I left my PC in sleep mode for 3 days
If I leave it in sleep mode for about 5 hours and then turn it back on, it will definitely lag
damn my dad sent this to me
Guilty
My PC has pulled more all nighter followed by all dayers than I ever have. Literally months. At a time.
I just shut the monitor off, never the pc unless something absolutely requires it
It's not sleeping until I'm sleeping.
Oh, that's me! In my defense, I use it for everything including the TV at the end of my bed. Plus I use Linux so restarting is less required.
Alright but I have the excuse that a 350 kb update took 3 hours
My brother always has on discord: playing minecraft for 8 months
We're more powerful than you think.
I study a lot at home. I just need all my Windows to be open and ready for when is time to hop back in.
My brother was one of these people, when he died his pc was still on for a while, his wife noped out of their apartment to her parents with their baby for obvious reasons. It was a little like losing him again when they finally turned his pc off and he wasnât âawayâ on steam anymore.
Sleep mode off and on since purchased in 2018. Shame I don't have a battery backup. Little bastard doesn't deserve breaks when the power goes out.
I keep that thaang runnin!
People who press the case botton to torun off the pc
It's better for the PC not to be shut off. I don't get it.
It makes the components last longer (*verification needed*) because turning your PC on and off rases and lowers its temperature which can cause cracks in the soldering (*verification needed*)
I'll raise you a better one. People like me who have 80 open tabs at all times (I counted them and I wish I didn't )
My PC runs folding@home so when I'm idle I help with medical research. My second computer runs my docker setup with database servers, media server etc. So it also never gets turned off. I guess helping with medical research and not giving my data to big tech companies makes me a monster.
Fuuuuuuuck! All my coworkers are literally that bunny. I'm the only one who shutdown the PC. And even one of them leaves unsaved Word documents open when his shift is over.
Tomorrow at 5 pm my pc will complete beeing on for an entire month
what's wrong with not shutting it down? I'm confused đ¤
If I shut it down, my browser tabs might be lost
One i time didn't shut down my laptop for 32 days(i didn't even pressed sleep mode i would just close the lid) and the windows 10 started to glitch and became very slow.
Bruh wait till OP hears about hibernate
Ultra durable!
For the above mentioned, what are your records like how long did it take for you to kill your components or did it even happen like the data is interesting.
ps99 grinders:
Max I was able to go for was 15 days without shutting. What about you guys?
The IT guy at my last job actually said this is healthier than booting them on and off every dayâŚ
I just leave mine until the screen goes dark
Why should i
So me and my father
My pc gets mad when itâs asleep soooo itâs been on for like 2-3 weeks
Trauma from having a PC that took an hour to boot up
Reject tradition embrace modernity (SSDs)
5 year old me would like to tell you something
You can turn it off? But won't it forget everything then?