Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend?

Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend? by atonse on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:51PM (#21095095)

Wake-On-Lan was good for exactly this kind of use case, but it never quite picked up.

Also newer PCs generally use less than that, probably closer to 50W idle?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend? by johnsonjo on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:39PM (#21095552)

I use Wake on LAN on my Desktop PC/Plex Server and it works great. I still need to setup shutdown remotely which I could probably just do with ssh or something similar (I don’t think I want to go as far as Remote Desktop mainly for security reasons). Anyways, I’m curious as to why you said it never picked up. Do you say that just because it is not yet popular, not widely supported, or because it is somehow flawed?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend? by rasz on Friday September 27, 2019 @05:58PM (#21096644)

never quite picked up as in got so standard and ubiquitous you dont even notice it?

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Re:Ask HN: Should I turn off my idle machine over the weekend? by atonse on Sunday September 29, 2019 @08:29AM (#21106640)

Is to built into Remote Desktop clients? Doubt it.

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