> let's take care at least a bit about the environment You know that producing that PC used way more energy than it would consume if you left it running? > ta

> let's take care at least a bit about the environment You know that producing that PC used way more energy than it would consume if you left it running? > taking into account how much electricity rose in Europe This seems like your main reason actually. Your wallet, not the environment. If the energy prices went down, you would have kept the old PC around rather than having it end up in a landfill or shipped to a poor country where people literally burn the PCBs to recover tiny bits of rare metals.