On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:40:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the
computer. Why? I never turn my computer off.
Same here, I always just suspend.
I wish I had that option. But I live way out in the country, and now
and then there is a power outage. My computer is running on a UPS,
but UPS batteries die after being run down more than a few times, and
battery replacement is expensive. And then there are lightning
storms...
For those computers where I'm not coming back to them the next day,
I hibernate them, so they're truly "off" and a powercut is perfectly
harmless, but when I turn them back on I get back to where I was.
I have been using Debian since A.D.2000, but I never have been clear
on the use of suspend and hibernate. If I am going to power-down the
computer, hibernate sounds good; but how do I resume?
RLH