Terri Rimmer uses her computer to search for remote jobs in her Fort Worth apartment on Sept. 9, 2023. A blackout curtain on the window helps keep the room cool. Rimmer said the trauma from the February 2021 winter storm caused her to shut off her air conditioning last summer when the state grid operator asked Texans to reduce electricity use. Credit: Evan L’Roy for The Texas Tribune
Yeah both the monitors and computers will consume a bit. Even a modern PC when turned off is in a type of deep sleep mode, for stuff like wake on LAN.
The chargers will hardly even register anything, except maybe in some rare case where its a special one that is doing some sort of passive listening (like the PC’s)
Yeah it took a huge amount of effort so far, but I’m about 80% through. It helps that I have been using Linux and Foss in general in work and play (but rarely desktop) since the 90’s. I realize I won’t get to 100%, for example email is way too much hassle to self host for me personally. Protonmail has been a solid middle ground for me coming from Gmail. Some accounts I simply can’t change the email so those are going to stay forwarded for now.
The biggest outlay so far was switching from Evernote to Joplin, as I had over 12 years of history (270 notebooks, 12,000 notes). It took me something like 4 full days of effort but feels glorious now that it’s done.
Good stuff. I worked crazy like that once before too, during the Kaseya ransomware breach. Was the specialist rebuilding functioning AD and recovery efforts in over 50 companies that month. It was a wild time, everything was on fire, so it was constant triage and scary recoveries (some lost absolutely everything - test your backups folks)
Would 100% do it again but like you mentioned you knew it was very temporary. Doing that long term is insanity
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Does a (phone|laptop) charger plugged in the socket but not connected to the device still consume electricity?
And if so, how much? Less, same or more than if it was actually charging something?...
What are you guys up to these days?
I’m just curious
Unraid post-setup help? ( lemmy.ml )
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