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a nice problem to have (lemmy.one)
submitted 11 months ago by empireOfLove@lemmy.one to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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[–] HW07@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Everyone should. It's wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.

[–] ozzah@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hibernate?

[–] HW07@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At that point you might as well turn it off.

[–] ozzah@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Hibernate keeps all your applications open.

[–] jdrch@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke

[–] DrDominate@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Or they put their computers to sleep instead of a full shutdown.