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Old 04-22-2021, 07:09 AM   #21
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The main reason I shut down at night is more about concern of some nefarious actor doing something that I may not be aware of, plus I am never on it after 7:00 PM. I suppose that may be an unfounded fear.
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Old 04-22-2021, 07:23 AM   #22
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The main reason I shut down at night is more about concern of some nefarious actor doing something that I may not be aware of, plus I am never on it after 7:00 PM. I suppose that may be an unfounded fear.
Probably unfounded fear as long as your computer is set up with updated security. But, I do something similar. I don't shut down at night but have set to hibernate so the computer can do the scheduled backups.

But before hibernation, I make sure that any Veracrypt volumes are dismounted and my password manager is closed as don't want some intruder poking around as I'm snoozing away in bed .
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I reboot my Windows PC every now and then and am forced to do it with some updates. Otherwise its just sleep mode. I had a linux server in the basement that had an uptime for several years.
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I never shutdown my main desktop and half of my servers, other than for hardware maintenance. I reboot as needed to pick up operating system updates. The other servers I run based on what projects I am working on. All of these computers are on APC power units that have yet to let me down.

My laptops I don't use as often so I let them go into suspend mode when I am not using them.
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The only time we turn the PC off is when we go on an extended trip 2-3 months.
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I turn my monitor off at night, but otherwise my computer stays on 24/7/365. Overnight it is usually recording TV shows, controlling lights in our house, running backups, processing videos, etc. My computer probably works harder at night than it does during the day.
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I'm surprised at all of the folks who leave their computers on (or hibernating) at night. I shutdown mine every evening since I have no desire to use it after 8pm or so. Since it only takes a couple of minutes to start up again in the morning.
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I'm surprised at all of the folks who leave their computers on (or hibernating) at night. I shutdown mine every evening since I have no desire to use it after 8pm or so. Since it only takes a couple of minutes to start up again in the morning.
Ouch. I shut down at night and reboot every morning, but the 15 sec boot time with an SSD makes the process much less painful.
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I shut down my PC when not in use, but I don’t use it daily, maybe twice a week. My main reason is I can’t get hacked when it’s off so why leave it exposed? OTOH we almost never shutdown our iPhones or iPads as they don’t seem to use much power when ‘asleep.’ And I used to shut off our router when not in use, but haven’t done that in years now that we stream all TV, and we use our iPads throughout the day. We just got a wireless printer which we leave on, but since we don’t print but a couple pages a month, we’ll probably start shutting it off when not printing.
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