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?
What’s your typical “stand-by” mode for your computer when you’re not using it?
Off.
Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this. I haven’t had a machine that took over 30s for a few years now… even my phone isn’t that slow.
Was recently asked to look at a laptop because it was “running slower than normal” and “takes a long time to resume from sleep.” Hmm, ok. It’s only a few years old, probably just bloateare.
I powered it on and immediately got served an early-2000s size dose of 10+ minute startup time. This laptop from only a few years ago still came with a spinny disk drive… Ugh. Didn’t even bother trying to optimize it. It’s getting cloned up to an SSD before I even try to work on it.
Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this.
Absolutely. SSDs, systemd, and recent kernels definitely help. From the moment the EFI hands over to the kernel, my ca. 9 years old system is ready for login 3 seconds later.
Holy shit people. It takes 20 seconds to boot up a computer. Turn your shit off. Save yourself money and save the fucking environment.
Or suspend that shit is faster than sleep (or hibernate)
not using it? thats an option?
It’s usually off unless I expect to be back relatively soon. Startup times aren’t an issue nowadays
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.
I usually hibernate just because I usually have several projects open at once and like to dive back in quickly. But ever since upgrading to Windows 10 a million years ago, my computer is possessed and turns itself back on, eventually goes into standby, and won’t come out without a hard reset.
In the years since I’ve neither identified and fixed the problem, nor remembered to shut down instead of hibernate. I just do hard resets a lot now.
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.
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.
PC is powered off when not in use because it’s only for gaming and occasionally a build server.
Laptop locked if I’m going out of sight of it, hibernated if I’m going away for more than half an hour or so/need to put it in my bag
Occasionally left on with the screen off if I need it for something remotely but then I’ll remotely shut it down when I’ve got what I need
I have different computers for different purposes. One runs 24/7 because it runs various servers. A couple are for gaming and are put to sleep when not in use. My laptop is shut down because I have no reason not to. I’ve also got a ras pie that runs 27/7.
Dude’s getting 3hrs more than anybody on the planet but is yet to take over the world. My 9th grade was wrong when she said even the richest man in the world gets the same 24hrs as everybody else. Stop lying, Ms. Dorene.
Leave it on, but turn off the monitor. I have it set up as a GitLab runner for some projects and also want to be able to SSH/SFTP in to access files, run updates, etc.
I shut it down. It takes less than 30 seconds to boot back up.
What about the Torrents? When do you seed?
I don’t download anything. I’m not adverse to piracy it’s just I don’t consume a lot outside of YouTube really.
I did have a sick server rack (Dell R610, if I recall) with torrenting setup and automated pretty much with it all synced to Plex for friends to connect to, but again I don’t consume much media as I find I don’t concentrate or multitask unless I go to the cinema. I did start hoarding media during that phase though just for the hobby of it 😂
After 10 or so minutes of inactivity my monitor shuts down (well, screen black, not actually pushing the power button on the monitor).
When I know I’ll leave for half an hour or more (and I’m not downloading something big), I hit the physical sleep button on my keyboard. Iunno, not needing to go through a couple clicks on the start menu and instead just pressing two buttons makes me more likely to use it.
Lastly, when I’ll be gone for multiple hours (sleeping, working, etc.) and I don’t have a huge or particularly slow download, I shut it off. But I never turn off my multi plug rectangle, unless we got a heavy thunderstorm.
If it’s not turned off then xscreensaver kicks in and draws something.
Hibernate
