Re: United to flight attendants: Put away your phone or you are fired

On 2024-02-08 00:57, Governor Swill wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2024 12:49:30 -0500, micky <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I was wrong on the flat-screen tv, but a radio must not use much at all.
>> I've not checked, but they used to have transistors that would play for
>> hours or days on a 9-volt battery, so I assume they don't use much.
>>
>> And I too have the radio on about 85% of the time.   News mainly.  And
>> the tv about 5% of the time, when I eat.  60's reruns.
>>
>>> He's miffed when I'm over at his place and we're puttering on a car or
>>> something and I ask him to turn off the radio.
>>
>> I don't think I'd be miffed but it's so long since I've had company, I'm
>> not sure.
> 
> My computer is on most of the day but only when I'm in front of it.  I shutdown rather
> than sleep it when I'm done with it.  I don't use TV or radio, I stream everything.
> 
> In customer service I'm astounded at how many people never do a shutdown.  They don't seem
> to get that the machine still uses energy in sleep mode.

Always sleep the computer.  Up to 60 days before re-boots.

1) Quebec is near 100% renewable energy, and it's cheap (6.5¢ / kWh 
base; 10¢ / kWh for everything above 40 kWh/day (averaged over ~60 days).

2) In the winter waste heat from the computer goes to the house, so it's 
zero energy cost/impact from about Nov to mid April.

3) M3 iMac sleep power is less than 1 watt.  i7 iMac is a couple watts.

Even shutdown a computer draws power unless unplugged - though we're 
talking low fractions of a watt.

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