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Your computer probably consumes about 100W when idle. The difference between on and off all year is https://www.google.com/search?q=100%20W%20%2A%201%20year%20%

Your computer probably consumes about 100W when idle. The difference between on and off all year is https://www.google.com/search?q=100%20W%20%2A%201%20year%20%2A%20%240.10%20%2F%20kWh https://www.google.com/search?q=100%20W%20%2A%201%20year%20%... But the weekends would just be $30. If you have reasons to log into your machine remotely that are worth more than $30/yr, then it's worth it.

jgtrosh 7y ago
Thanks for reminding me that I exceptionally turned off my office PC today, leaving inaccessible the latest version of a paper I need to submit this weekend Today, it wasn't worth the savings.
- ASalazarMX 7y ago
  If your main use is sharing files, any cloud drive would take care of that. Besides the money, it's wise not to waste resources needlessly.
  - jgtrosh 7y ago
    Clearly, there are better ways to share files than scp from work desktop. I should have said that having forgotten to push changes to a remote repo, turning the desktop off partially caused quite a bit of extra work in an already very busy weekend. I value that wasted time and energy more than the electrity that would have been wasted had I left the desktop on. Saying that it's wise to turn the PC off has no effect on the large swathes of corporate developers who only see an off PC as potential waste of time.
atonse 7y ago
Wake-On-Lan was good for exactly this kind of use case, but it never quite picked up. Also newer PCs generally use less than that, probably closer to 50W idle?
- johnsonjo 7y ago
  I use Wake on LAN on my Desktop PC/Plex Server and it works great. I still need to setup shutdown remotely which I could probably just do with ssh or something similar (I don’t think I want to go as far as Remote Desktop mainly for security reasons). Anyways, I’m curious as to why you said it never picked up. Do you say that just because it is not yet popular, not widely supported, or because it is somehow flawed?
- rasz 7y ago
  never quite picked up as in got so standard and ubiquitous you dont even notice it?
  - atonse 7y ago
    Is to built into Remote Desktop clients? Doubt it.
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ac29 7y ago
> 100W when idle That's significantly off - my Skylake desktop PC idles around 15-25W (I just checked with a kill-a-watt).
- vortico 7y ago
  Hmm, I've always used 100W as a reference. Maybe I got that from server estimates?
  - SamReidHughes 7y ago
    My dual socket Xeon desktop half a decade ago idled at 94W.
  - rambojazz 7y ago
    That would be more like it. 100W for an idle desktop/laptop PCs sounds pretty high.
  - Havoc 7y ago
    It used to be a good estimate not so long ago. Things have improved dramatically recently You see the same on laptops. Each generation seems to come with a smaller wattage brick

jgtrosh 7y ago

Thanks for reminding me that I exceptionally turned off my office PC today, leaving inaccessible the latest version of a paper I need to submit this weekend Today, it wasn't worth the savings.

ASalazarMX 7y ago
If your main use is sharing files, any cloud drive would take care of that. Besides the money, it's wise not to waste resources needlessly.
- jgtrosh 7y ago
  Clearly, there are better ways to share files than scp from work desktop. I should have said that having forgotten to push changes to a remote repo, turning the desktop off partially caused quite a bit of extra work in an already very busy weekend. I value that wasted time and energy more than the electrity that would have been wasted had I left the desktop on. Saying that it's wise to turn the PC off has no effect on the large swathes of corporate developers who only see an off PC as potential waste of time.

atonse 7y ago

Wake-On-Lan was good for exactly this kind of use case, but it never quite picked up. Also newer PCs generally use less than that, probably closer to 50W idle?

johnsonjo 7y ago
I use Wake on LAN on my Desktop PC/Plex Server and it works great. I still need to setup shutdown remotely which I could probably just do with ssh or something similar (I don’t think I want to go as far as Remote Desktop mainly for security reasons). Anyways, I’m curious as to why you said it never picked up. Do you say that just because it is not yet popular, not widely supported, or because it is somehow flawed?
rasz 7y ago
never quite picked up as in got so standard and ubiquitous you dont even notice it?
- atonse 7y ago
  Is to built into Remote Desktop clients? Doubt it.

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ac29 7y ago

> 100W when idle That's significantly off - my Skylake desktop PC idles around 15-25W (I just checked with a kill-a-watt).

vortico 7y ago
Hmm, I've always used 100W as a reference. Maybe I got that from server estimates?
- SamReidHughes 7y ago
  My dual socket Xeon desktop half a decade ago idled at 94W.
- rambojazz 7y ago
  That would be more like it. 100W for an idle desktop/laptop PCs sounds pretty high.
- Havoc 7y ago
  It used to be a good estimate not so long ago. Things have improved dramatically recently You see the same on laptops. Each generation seems to come with a smaller wattage brick