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

On 2024-02-08 09:39, Governor Swill wrote:
> 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.

No, you're not.

Applications can update without rebooting and needing to reboot is an 
entirely different reason.

Shutting down the computer for 60 days absolutely blocks anything from 
being updated.

> 
>> 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.

1 watt? 24watt-hours a day in a home that uses easily 1000 times that 
much energy?

And having a computer wake from sleep means it is more useful to me.
> 
>> 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?

It's minuscule. Irrelevant.

Don't be so ridiculous.