Then you'd be shocked at me. This laptop is generally set to go into sleep mode after 3 minutes non-use. Although during the day I may let cook. Before letting it go to sleep I close ALL programs, including my browser. If you don't have all kinds of crap constantly running in the background and have a reasonable internet connection when you return open up a fresh browser in about a second and back on the air.
Not shocked at all Med !
You just do whatever suits your habits and desires best, like everyone else !
For me desire is to have the desktop computer (don't have a laptop) running 24/7 as I spent so much on it. Do'nt want to have to wait for it to power up every morning either, neither do I want to wait for Firefox to load 20/40/60 tabs all over again every day, whch would take like an hour on a good day, because crappy 4G internet box here, no ADSL nor fiber. Just got the copper wires installed a couple months though, so I am planning on subscribing to ADSL in teh coming months. Fiber is well on its way in my village too, my street should be connected this year probably. However I don't need the speed of Fiber (and you never actually get the advertised speed anyway), ADSL is plenty fast enough for what I do. Wirse I need is watching YT videos in 240 or 480p and I mwitnessed it requires only 150KB/s or so, which is peanuts even for ADSL.
Anyway, I keep the computer and tabs open 24/7 because I do use them all the time, can have them open thanks to enough RAM, and because I am not prepared to wait for them all to load every day on my slow connection, especially since I don't have to. However as I said I do have to limit myself to 20+ tabs to limit RAM usage otherwise with 60 tabs it does not go well atl. So I am already making compromises here, and making efforts.
As for sleep mode, well the whole point of it is precisely to let you recover all your programs very quickly, while still saving lots of power. RAM stays powered to maintain the state of your desktop. If you close all your programs before going to sleep, then might as well pwoer it off to turn it off for good and save on power.
15 years ago I did try the " Hibernate "feature", as a compromise.. before going to bed I would hibernate my desktop (dumps all the RAM contents into the swap partition) so that I can turn it off completely, hence save power, yet when you turn it back on, it restores teh desktop in the same state you left it in, i.e all your apps and tabs are still there 100% like you left them.
Sounded like a good compromise. Sadly it never worked well nor reliably. At least on Linux which I was using (still am) at the time : when powered back on, 80% of the time computer would freeze because the graphics card driver would not play well at all with the hibernate feture ! Or when the video did work, then it's the desktop / user interface that failed to restore properly the apps and their contents.
So I gave up on hibernating the computer.... and just leave it on 24/7.
It all depends on your use case... the less you use something, the more you are prepared to work and wait to recover it... the more you can afford to tunr it off and put it away.
So everyone has different threshold.... for example following what you said, I might ask you
1) Why is it that you don't store Tek scopes in your toilet cabinet ?? It's like RAM. 99% of the time you are not using it, so it's wasteed space no ? So might as well use that precious space to store Tek scopes !
but you don't do that (well I don't know... just assuming
), because although you spend very little time in the loo, WHEN YOU DO, you want it to be immediately available, and you are not prepared to spend an hour emptying it from all its Tek scopes, never mind the effort it represents...
You want to get to the loo... RIGHT NOW !
Same for my computer.. I decide that I am not prepared to wait not make any effort every time I want to access it. I want it to be readily available, so that it can serve me rather than me having to work it before it can work for me...
Same goes for your Civic ! You don't use it much, certainly not 24H/7, so why not use it to store Tek scopes as well ? When you need your car, you "just" need to unload the scopes and there you go !
So it's only a matter of where people draw the line, depending of their circumstances, habits, wishes, what they are willing to put up with....