I guess that having had a computer since age 10 or so I just considered it a fairly standard thing for nerds to do. Yes, strictly. A 20W average laptop would c

I guess that having had a computer since age 10 or so I just considered it a fairly standard thing for nerds to do. Yes, strictly. A 20W average laptop would cost approx 3-4GBP per month to leave on all the time in the UK, a modest desktop perhaps 10-15GBP. It's been a measurement error in my power budget as far back as I can remember. Sure, you can go and compare it to EC2 or whatever if you like, but that's just silliness. It's a big mac meal. My Threadripper box with a shitton of HDD's and RAM etc moves the needle because it has high idle consumption. I'll probably be getting rid of that soon; but it's still a low cost relative to purchase price.