No, but an old laptop or a Raspi that functions as server. Which stands in the ugliest corner of your apartment and is bothering no one. Or are you running some crazy multiphase modeling simulations? My gaming PCs needs to much power to run some containers.
Maybe I am oldschool or just german but I always shutdown the system and then also turn off the Steckdosenleiste (what is the english word? Power strip?)
You guys don‘t turn off you computer when going to sleep?
Of course not, we’re running servers and piholes and shit on VMs and containers and whatnot.
On the gaming rig?
Who the fuck can afford more than one rig…?
No, but an old laptop or a Raspi that functions as server. Which stands in the ugliest corner of your apartment and is bothering no one. Or are you running some crazy multiphase modeling simulations? My gaming PCs needs to much power to run some containers.
Besides, Steam says I have 496GB of updates to download
Thats what sleep mode is for.
Maybe I am oldschool or just german but I always shutdown the system and then also turn off the Steckdosenleiste (what is the english word? Power strip?)
Power is generally very cheap in the US, so the ~5 watt power draw is nothing. Rough calculation would be something like 50 cents per month.