How often do y'all shut down your computers / laptops?

[umbreon@donphan.social]

@hexaitos My desktop? All the time. Laptop, sleep mode all the time (partly because I frequently open and close my laptop constantly and need to keep my programs and files open).

Also I heard somewhere that frequently powering off and on wears down the battery and Apple Silicon Macbooks tend to have stupidly impressive sleep battery life (roughly two weeks or so)

[saffronflight@squawk.social]

@hexaitos the only time I do a full shutdown (that isn't for restarting for an update) is if I'm changing the components or leaving my house for an extended period of time (both of these things almost never happen)

[arios@meow.social]

@hexaitos The desktop? Every day when going to sleep. I don't want it to consume power when Idle, and standby on my system has been very unreliable, with random-ish wake-ups.

The laptops? Maybe once every week or so, usually after a big update with a new kernel or something

[kolamagpie@this.mouse.rocks]

@hexaitos At least once a day before work, and before going to sleep myself.

[colinstu@birdbutt.com]

@hexaitos windows/linux stuff: shut down daily / when done using it

macOS: almost never. (Just sleep usually).

[jak2k@mastodontech.de]

@hexaitos Daily, except on weekends where I only suspend.

[two@critter.cafe]

@hexaitos nightly; this one's devices sleep in the same room as it, and their lights would keep it awake otherwise (even the laptop, whose charging indicator light slowly blinks while the device is powered on for some undiagnosable reason).

[hayley@social.applied-langua.ge]

@two @hexaitos desktop when I move house, laptop permanently situated at work only reboots when it freezes up, personal laptop whenever I'm done with it for the day

[fox@packmates.org]

@hexaitos for laptop, usually just when it dies, for desktop, pretty much whenever we aren't at the desk or running a task on it ^^;;

[urocyongirl@packmates.org]

@hexaitos basically whenever it's not in use/won't be for a while. if we're going out, we'll turn it off, as well as when going to sleep and etc.

[noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl]

@hexaitos the laptop that I take with me to school: daily
the laptop that stays on my desk most of the time: about once every few weeks, whenever I need to update the kernel for security patches (which has been more often than I'd like it to be recently), or I update KDE and screenshots stop working until I restart it (at which point I may as well reboot and get kernel updates applied too)