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In 2024, do you let your computer go to sleep or not ?
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Sparks:
My main pc sleeps after 45 minutes. My laptop after 20 minutes. Would be less but I need to monitor things for work which updates every minute.
soldar:
No sleep for me. Only the monitor turns off after like 15 minutes. Other than that the computer is running or I turn it off.

I have not tried sleep in many years but when I did with win XP i had some trouble. Now I am using Linux but I still do not use sleep.
SiliconWizard:
I do use standby and practically never turn off computers anymore now, unless I'm away for more than a couple days. I don't let them go to standby by themselves ever, though, for the desktop computers, only for laptops. (I do for the displays.)
So I just put them to standby when I leave, instead of shutting them down. Avoids having to wait for rebooting and setting back your session as it was for getting back to work - it doesn't look like much, but always annoying.
Using standby also on Linux, absolutely zero problem here. But the typical number of cycles per day is 1 to 2 for desktop computers.

Unless you have many standby/resume cycles per day and you use spinning HDDs, it can only make your hardware last longer. (And even with HDDs, it would take a lot of cycles to even shorten their lifetime.)
If you have a dodgy PSU, it may shorten its lifetime a bit, maybe, but if it's a decent one, it can again only make things better compared to letting it on 24/7.
And of course there's your electricity bill.
xrunner:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 08, 2024, 12:17:08 am ---I do use standby and practically never turn off computers anymore now, unless I'm away for more than a couple days. I don't let them go to standby by themselves ever, though, for the desktop computers, only for laptops. (I do for the displays.)

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A while back I was putting one to sleep and never turning it off - that was my plan. But I would see in the morning many times it was not sleeping but full on. I thought the sleep function was buggy or something ... wait it looks like the mouse has been moved?  :wtf:

Oh kitty cat! He was checking things out at night and he moved the mouse. Since in the bios I had "wake on USB event" enabled he was able to turn it on.  :palm:


SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: xrunner on January 08, 2024, 12:31:23 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on January 08, 2024, 12:17:08 am ---I do use standby and practically never turn off computers anymore now, unless I'm away for more than a couple days. I don't let them go to standby by themselves ever, though, for the desktop computers, only for laptops. (I do for the displays.)

--- End quote ---

A while back I was putting one to sleep and never turning it off - that was my plan. But I would see in the morning many times it was not sleeping but full on. I thought the sleep function was buggy or something ... wait it looks like the mouse has been moved?  :wtf:

Oh kitty cat! He was checking things out at night and he moved the mouse. Since in the bios I had "wake on USB event" enabled he was able to turn it on.  :palm:

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Cats can be an issue with it. ;D
Note that not all BIOSes and mice act the same relative to waking up. With some mice, just moving them around is enough to trigger a wake-up event, while with others, you need to click on a button to do so. I try using mice which only do the latter. But that's something you won't know until you try...
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