Why the FUCK do you leave your desktop powered on 24/7?

what if you.. I dunno.. just download your porn?

show proof

>implying

Because it costs a fuck ton less than the 4x r710s and assorted network gear that I DO leave running 24/7 so I don't really care about the small fraction of my electric bill it represents

its better for the hardware in the long run, cycling puts extra stress on the components desu

Your components will become obsolete before they stop working.

This is REALLY simple logic, user. Literally basic electronics and physics.

>powering up a computer causes high immediate power consumption as every cap etc. gets charge, which strains your PSU
>also causes the PSU to overshoot its target voltage a bit as it ramps up power delivery, which will fuck with some electronic components when done frequently over time
>it takes the electric motor in the hard drive more work to spin up platters than it takes to maintain the rotation speed, causing an immense amount of strain when powering up

Depends entirely on the component you are talking about.

The thing is your hardware can probably last 15 years without being powered off (assuming no HDDs). But if you power it off, something would probably break when powered on again.

i'm downloading every single porn movie ever made, 24 hours a day isnt enough.

You are taking things that are true and grossly exaggerating their effects.

Any standard part in you computer, unless you're not taking care of your shit, I have ancient hard drives that I can still use with my machine which is pushing 8 years old now, nothing has died in it yet and it's been turned on and off at least 2600 times now

>SMPS are designed spacifically to deliver high power. Hence due to switching mechanism we obtain 100% power efficency. No retarded dissipation of power.
SMPS capacitors are high performance ceramic ones, not your usual electrolytic.
Straining of PSU are normal startup condition is a joke lmao.
>PSU are designed, manufactured and tested to NOT to fuck with motherboards, gpu and other components. They're failing and will blow up you're computer. Output voltages of PSU are strictly maintained with no flickering whatsoever.
>Spinning up platters doesn't cause any strain to the motor, you do know that those are Brushless to begin with, don't you? HDDs can't draw more power max rated by manufacturer, which is safe.
You need to brush up you're basics.

in normal startup*

>leaving sensitive data in-memory while you're away
I seriously hope you don't do this. Shut your computer down.

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If you have at least an i7 920 or comparable, it will never become obsolete looking at the current CPU evolution

i do not believe in sensitive data

i don't want to keep filth on my hard drive

And your CPU won't die from being turned on/off anyway or your grandparents core2 would have stopped working a long long while ago

Plex and remote access

Literally this, my dad had a ...
>Pentium 4 HP prebuilt
literally had it until I gave him some Athlon ii x4 prebuilt I had laying around a year or so ago
>IBM PS/2 in perfect working condition
mom made him get rid of it.. I would have loved to keep it for myself

*And he never left any of them on 24/7

I can see leaving you're computer on if you use windows, because it might be tuesday before you're computer is usable after a cold boot, but gnu/linux you can poweroff to get up and make a coffee.

Because I actually seed my torrents unlike you ungrateful leeching niggers.
And there's no reason to shut down your PC for power reasons anymore. 80+ platinum PSU and I idle at ~100 watts.

I had a power supply go bad once, and it filled my house with the most horrendous, thick, white smoke and poisonous smells. I never leave my computers on since then.

torrenting in the year of 2019...

Is there a better way to do this? Can I get Plex to run as a background process when my computer is hibernating or something?

It is also entirely possible to colonize titan, in theory.

Now show us some real world data to back up your claims.

Why the FUCK would I turn it on when I need to use it and off when I'm done when I can just turn it on and leave it on?

>any year
>streaming

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What if I stream my torrents?

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Then you're torrenting

If it's on your browser it's on your hard drive. Encrypt it if necessary. As far as I know encryption is only illegal in the UK and North Korea.

>encryption is illegal in the UK
jesus fucking christ there's no way this is real

falkvinge.net/2012/07/12/in-the-uk-you-will-go-to-jail-not-just-for-encryption-but-for-astronomical-noise-too/

Not only is it illegal but people have already served gaol time for it.

The thing that kills electronics is expansion and contraction. Delivering power to your PC also introduces heat, which causes numerous components to expand as well. Turn it off and guess what, every one of those same components contract as they cool down.

Leave your computer on and your parts stay contracted. Avoiding unnecessary wear.

>still using a desktop

>The facts Jews DONT want you to know!

Because hibernation takes 10W and is a lot more convenient than stopping and starting

if you can't afford 100W or so at idle you're doing something wrong

All the fags here with their l33t 1000W RGB gaming setups on 24/7 clearly live with their parents because they would shit their pants if they had to pay for their power usage.

Doubles ad vacate: encryption itself isn't illegal, however the encryption becomes illegal for failure to provide keys when criminally investigated, which defeats the purpose entirely of having encryption. Good job bongers

>not encrypting your ram

I work in a computer repair store and I've seen a 11 year old laptop with only 100 days of power on the hdd.

Shit was still working fine but they brought it in for a hdd upgrade (had a 40gb Toshiba ide hdd)

Lol

I have a ups so it's all good

I can't imagine how many times that shit got turned on and off was my point.

Private tracker master race

logging

I'm waiting for vanessa to reply

>put computer in sleep mode
>wakes up multiple times in the middle of the night for no reason

fuck that

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>encryption becomes illegal for failure to provide keys when criminally investigated, which defeats the purpose entirely of having encryption

has it ever occured to you that people may want someone other than authorities to see what they keep on their drives? like, I don't know, competition? or literal burglars?

>to see

I meant 'not to be able to see'

Because I always pay my electricity late 1000s behind but mehh cash can be spent on something else

Exactly, what if it's proprietary and you're a contractor for a company and you have an NDA stating it's for your eyes' and the company's eyes only? Does everyone at the company get arrested because they technically have access to the keys potentially?

Also to your point, yeah that's just one potential part of having private property, not just protection from authorities.

Because I don't want my HDDs to spin up/down or heat cycle my components.

Yea my mouse is stupid sensitive and the PC would consistently wake itself up. My main PC gets shut down every night. However my Server usually has an uptime of 3+ months at a time. I built it with decent server hardware and it's ECC based, so no bit flips here.

Power cycles are worse on your hardware than leaving it idling all the time, and modern desktops barely draw anything at idle.

I let my systems sleep.