abfarid

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Firstly, I normally have way more than two apps open. And secondly, in case of a few apps, I personally still value the couple minutes of my time more than I do 2% of my battery. But to each their own.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used to have a watercooled PC, I don't remember it making any sounds while in sleep. Why would the pump run when PC is asleep?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I was mostly talking about stationary computers, but even in case of a laptop (unless it runs Windows which has terrible sleep management) the benefits of starting your work immediately once you open the lid outweighs the cons of losing a couple percent of battery overnight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

But you can't bring the same argument back to me. Cold booting requires more time and effort. Thus to make that argument, one needs to provide the benefits that compensate for the downsides. Some people provided possible benefits that matter to their specific case, like, PSU makes noise (actually, that was you in a different thread), or they want to save laptop battery, etc. But if we are taking about a modern stationary computer with mains power, there's practically no benefit to shutting it down, only downsides.

Of course it's completely valid for somebody to do it out of habit, but they can't expect to use that as a valid argument for others to do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But a sleeping computer is just as quiet as a shut down computer... Which is totally silent. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Even if it's only one app, what is the purpose? To save on electricity that powers RAM?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (21 children)

Even if the boot time is fast, you lose a lot of the program states. Not only it takes extra time to load those applications, it's also a fair amount of effort to put everything back where it should be.

If it was necessary to shut computers down, no problem, it's not too much time and effort. But there's normally no need to shut computers down, it's just wasted time with no benefits (usually).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that officer Chen?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have only seen a couple episodes of Lower Decks, but outright saying something like this seems very out of character for her.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

Was it that time when Trump signed the agreement in the wrong place, Trudeau realized this, and as to not embarrass Trump, stealthily put away the wrong copy, which is why he's not holding one in the photo?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks, good to know.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Technically, sideloading is possible already, but you need a developer account, you're limited to 3 sideloaded apps at a time, and you have to renew them every week.

So the more difficult way already exists.

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