Yeah I used to leave my computer on all the time. Then I realized that’s really wasteful. I shut it down nightly. I shut it down if I’m going to be away from it for like an hour.
My work laptop on the other hand. I don’t know if I should blame docker or macos or what, but I tell it to go sleep and it just won’t. I don’t want to shut it all down because starting local stuff up again is a mild pain.
Actually MacOS is designed to do that. Frequent Off-On turning is bad for the longevity and speed. They created some sort of background program that does essentially the same as our brain and gets rid of all the waste that built up during the day. And it draws only 1 - 3 watts / hour, that‘s 3 ~ 10 google searches or 0.4 ChatGPT requests
It’s only on while I’m using it; why waste power to save 20 seconds?
Yeah I used to leave my computer on all the time. Then I realized that’s really wasteful. I shut it down nightly. I shut it down if I’m going to be away from it for like an hour.
My work laptop on the other hand. I don’t know if I should blame docker or macos or what, but I tell it to go sleep and it just won’t. I don’t want to shut it all down because starting local stuff up again is a mild pain.
Long gone are the days of turning it on and going to make a cuppa while it booted up.
Starting stuff up is all work time, so I don’t mind. Especially at home I’m not going to leave my work laptop running, that’s my power it’s wasting :)
Actually MacOS is designed to do that. Frequent Off-On turning is bad for the longevity and speed. They created some sort of background program that does essentially the same as our brain and gets rid of all the waste that built up during the day. And it draws only 1 - 3 watts / hour, that‘s 3 ~ 10 google searches or 0.4 ChatGPT requests