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

On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 09:37:52 -0500, Alan Browne <[email protected]> wrote:

>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.

If you're going that long between reboots, you're blocking the OS and other programs from
updating.  That's bad practice.

>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).

That's no excuse to be wasteful.  That renewable energy could be shared with others if you
weren't wasting it.

>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.

What about the rest of the year?

>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.

Swill
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