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This “leave it on overnight “ is a minor point of contention with me and the IT department currently, because I work from home and electricity prices are insane
by switch007 5y ago
This “leave it on overnight “ is a minor point of contention with me and the IT department currently, because I work from home and electricity prices are insane.
Our Windows is set up to patch overnight, which means wake up at some random time then just sit there consuming power. That doesn’t fly with me so I unplug the power so it doesn’t do that…
- MaxikCZ 5y agoI hate that. I leave my workspace open and go home, come next morning and am on a fresh desktop because windows decided its totaly fine to reboot in the middle of the night.
- diggernet 5y agoAnd then on top of that, they disable the "resume last session" setting in your browser, so you come back to find the dozen or so tabs you were using for your current task are gone, and you need to spend time going out and finding all those pages again.
- prepend 5y agoSame complaint from me. They also require vpn access for that overnight. So I have to leave my laptop on every night with an active vpn session just in case they want to patch. It seems smarter just to download the patch in a background process, then prompt to patch at the end of the day. A “hey, please leave your laptop on instead of logging out and we’ll shut down when we’re done” would be well received.