• dbtng@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Despite OP insisting otherwise, I’m gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don’t have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that’s why this joke went over my head.

  • B-TR3E@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    First of all, our computers are always on. Those kernels don’t compile themselves, three times a day. Secondarily we could, at least, turn our machines on without having to install a dozen of updates before having to reboot again.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
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        2 months ago

        If systems that run Linux were to power down, that’s it for almost all of the internet.

        • espentan@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          If people could just be kind and turn off the server when they leave.

          If you close a tab, get a prompt; “it looks like you’re leaving this website, would you like to power down the server(s)?”

          • groet@feddit.org
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            2 months ago

            And all websites use wake-on-lan over the internet so the first person every day just starts the server and the last one turns off the lights!

            • Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de
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              2 months ago

              That’s kinda how serverless works. You rent cpu time from a bigger cloud vendor and only spin up your servers when there is traffic.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, if I’m not using the computer I turn it off because why would I be wasting electricity? So it’s the same for windows or linux to me. You do need to reboot your computer sometimes anyway. For linux it’s when you update the kernel. For windows you just have to reboot for similar reasons or after you’ve spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why something isn’t working and then in desperation “try turning it off and turning it back on again”. Better to just turn it off when you’re done using it and turn it on when you need it again and many of those issues are avoided completely.

    So I turn off my computer when I’m not using it and I save power AND so the computer doesn’t get glitchy. It doesn’t take much time for the computer to boot up, so there’s not much reason to not just turn it off when I’m not using it.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    But by the time the lid is up to reach the power button, it’s already out of sleep and operational…

  • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Oh! I should turn off my laptop. Thx for the reminder