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"This is serious. Though it never occurred on my computer because I use neither Windows nor Chrome but I support this anyway in the name of humanity."

In the name of humanity, wouldn't it be nice if people were in the habit of shutting their computers down, rather than letting them burn through electricity all night long?

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I hope google, facebook, hacker news and other web sites would start shutting down at least half of their servers during the night. And, when I say night, I mean night anywhere on this platnet, not just night in some particular time zone. That would help.

Yes and all websites should have a black background ;)

Ok, forgive me if I'm missing some sarcasm here but... you realize that about half the planet is in darkness at any given time, right?

I think you're missing some sarcasm here. It's OK, I forgive you.

Thank you. I should not respond to things at 4:00 in the morning.

It's 2013, I haven't shut a computer down in 4 years. Hibernate everything.

It's 2013, and hibernation is broken in Ubuntu! :(

Works for me on my seven year old Thinkpad.

It doesn't work for me on my year-old thinkpad, or on my desktop, or on my server, and it is broken on two other computers I know of. Hibernation issues in Ubuntu aren't exactly an uncommon problem: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hibernate

Additionally, it is disabled by policykit in releases past 12.04: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-desktop-...

So yeah, Hibernate is broken in Ubuntu in 2013, and your downvote doesn't change that

I didn't downvote you.

I am using 12.04.1, but I made a mistake, in that I confused hibernate with suspend. Suspend works for me; I've never tried hibernate. The link you provide mentions only hibernate in the title but seems to be talking about suspend as well. Strange, since suspend works for me and I didn't do anything to enable it.

I don't dispute that suspend and/or hibernate is broken on many machines using some recent versions of Ubuntu. But it still "works for me": just another datapoint.

IIRC Windows turns itself on to install updates and then shuts down.

It will actually restart after installing updates and make you wonder why none of your programs from the night before are still running.

It's worse if you've encrypted your hard drive. After a 3am windows update, my Sony laptop reboots and stops at the Truecrypt 'enter your password' boot prompt. But at this pre-boot point, there's no OS power-saving. So the CPU is at 100%, the laptop fan spins up to hurricane levels, and the dumb thing just sits there for the rest of the night like an overpriced fan heater.

In this usage scenario, it would probably be a better option to disable automatic updates and be vigilant about updates "manually". Windows will still notify you about updates, and it will be a bit of a hassle... but not a space heater kind of issue at least. :)

I have found most humans to not care about their energy consumption. So in the name of humanity, I have at least one computer on 24 hours a day.

I have electric heating, so the difference between using the baseboard heaters exclusively and using computers with the baseboard for supplemental heating is nil.

Yeah well, we don't!

Excuse me, I couldn't hear you over my own goddamn tree-hugging self-righteousness! ^_^

or I mean just take charge of your technology instead of expecting it to babysit you through the night. Seriously, this is a ridiculous demand. It's impossible for a browser to manage every plug-in it has if you're not going to oversee your operating system.

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