Yup, Also, I hate having a million LEDs lighting up my house like it's Christmas year round. I sleep better when it's actually dark. I make a point to only get stuff that's actually off when I turn it off.

[–] velvetThunder@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You can put it to sleep/energy saving mode. If you Google how to you can also put it to hybernate. I don't think the original commenter does it, but I recommend it.

[–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

Or I could just not do any of that and turn it off. It doesn't hurt anything to turn your PC off. I promise. Especially since standby mode comes with those stupid LEDs I hate, and hibernate takes longer to boot back up then a cold boot.

[–] Wirrvogel@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

A shutdown and a fresh start also deletes files that aren't used anymore and the PC does check itself for hardware problems. Starting a PC could take a long time in the past, but my current 7 year old system starts in about 10 seconds, a newer system could start faster. I also turn off all peripherals like monitors and printer etc. with one switch after the computer is off, to make sure there is not a single light still wasting electricity. Standby devices in a common houshold use so much electricity, that it amounts to a lot of money over a year. But I guess we are still in the phase of convinience over climate and people have money to waste too.