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[–] HW07 14 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Everyone should. It's wasted energy, bad for components and outright lazy in some cases.

[–] ozzah 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hibernate?

[–] HW07 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

At that point you might as well turn it off.

[–] ozzah 1 points 9 months ago

Hibernate keeps all your applications open.

[–] jdrch 1 points 9 months ago

No, power on/off is much worse for components than running due to the transients involved.

[–] sir_pronoun 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm gonna go ahead and guess their comment was made as a joke

[–] DrDominate 2 points 9 months ago

Or they put their computers to sleep instead of a full shutdown.