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What's your typical "stand-by" mode for your computer when you're not using it? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Cataphract@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I struggle with this for my personal computer. The TV-computer combo shuts off the monitor (triggers the tv to shut off when there is no input) after an hour. An hour after that it's suspended, works well.

My personal computer though, sometimes I shut off the monitor, most of the time I let it run for the day completely powered. I have yet to set any type of shutdown or standby because typically I use it more than I do my tv (work, gaming, videos, etc on the comp). I know there's some power conservation I need to consider for motivation, I have no security concern atm with my standard main account and everything private is layered so inaccessible.

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what's everyone else's setup like for when they walk away from the computer?

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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What's your typical "stand-by" mode for your computer when you're not using it?

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[–] agegamon@beehaw.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this. I haven't had a machine that took over 30s for a few years now... even my phone isn't that slow.

Was recently asked to look at a laptop because it was "running slower than normal" and "takes a long time to resume from sleep." Hmm, ok. It's only a few years old, probably just bloateare.

I powered it on and immediately got served an early-2000s size dose of 10+ minute startup time. This laptop from only a few years ago still came with a spinny disk drive... Ugh. Didn't even bother trying to optimize it. It's getting cloned up to an SSD before I even try to work on it.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Startup times getting down below 20s definitely helps with this.

Absolutely. SSDs, systemd, and recent kernels definitely help. From the moment the EFI hands over to the kernel, my ca. 9 years old system is ready for login 3 seconds later.