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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

You guys don‘t turn off you computer when going to sleep?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course not, we're running servers and piholes and shit on VMs and containers and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Who the fuck can afford more than one rig..?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Besides, Steam says I have 496GB of updates to download

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

No, but an old laptop or a Raspi that functions as server. Which stands in the ugliest corner of your apartment and is bothering no one. Or are you running some crazy multiphase modeling simulations? My gaming PCs needs to much power to run some containers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats what sleep mode is for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I am oldschool or just german but I always shutdown the system and then also turn off the Steckdosenleiste (what is the english word? Power strip?)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Power is generally very cheap in the US, so the ~5 watt power draw is nothing. Rough calculation would be something like 50 cents per month.