Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?
by thrower123 on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:46PM
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The only way to know is measuring.
Personally, I don't ever turn my desktop off unless I know I'm going away for at least a week. I've been burned in the past by weird flaky things happening with OS standby and hibernation, so it isn't worth messing with. The other danger is unanticipated OS updates (I have Windows boxes...); I prefer to keep those on my schedule, where I can deal with them, and any resulting fallout, at my leisure.
At the end of the day, running my desktop 24x7 costs me like two or three cups of coffee a month, so I just don't worry about it. It's well below the threshold of things I can spare the mental effort to concern myself about.
Personally, I don't ever turn my desktop off unless I know I'm going away for at least a week. I've been burned in the past by weird flaky things happening with OS standby and hibernation, so it isn't worth messing with. The other danger is unanticipated OS updates (I have Windows boxes...); I prefer to keep those on my schedule, where I can deal with them, and any resulting fallout, at my leisure.
At the end of the day, running my desktop 24x7 costs me like two or three cups of coffee a month, so I just don't worry about it. It's well below the threshold of things I can spare the mental effort to concern myself about.