• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Just wait until that one time you PC doesn’t lock properly and you type your password into a group chat.

    • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
      7·
      11 months ago

      I almost never wait for my pc to start up, thank god I can start it from anywhere with Wake on Lan

      • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I’m sure theres a home assistant automation you could do to wake your PC on a motion sensor, or when you get home.

        • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          My kitchen smoke detector also picks up farts, I can probably rig something up to wake the PC too.

            • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
              12·
              11 months ago

              I’m not against making it an open standard but only if it includes some balanced privacy features. I don’t want people to be able to track me by my fart signature but at the same time it would be nice to use it as biometrics for signing into websites with passkeys.

        • bach37strad @lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          11 months ago

          Yall turn yours off?

          Seriously, the last time I turned my pc off was when I moved. It draws all of 30w at idle, and I’ve frozen all updates until I manually do it anyways.

              • bach37strad @lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                My case fans run at 20% generally. Even cheap ones nowadays are super quiet. Can’t be heard over my air conditioning.

                As for moving parts. My main 3 drives are ssd and my media hdd’s spin down when not in use. I’m pretty sure that’s the windows power plan default actually.

    • Selmafudd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I got the same problem and the middle one is a different resolution and because the others turn on first one of those is picked as main desktop and then the centre turns on and everything flashes as the main desktop is swapped around to the middle and I donno how but it will mess up game resolution setting when it lowers down to the side monitor res… It’s such a pita that I’m in the habit now of turning the side monitors off and only turn them on when I’m ready to go

      • EpeeGnome@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I wish Windows handled this more gracefully. I ran into one where the secondary monitor woke up first and it would cram all open windows and desktop items onto one screen every time it woke from sleep. Frustrated the user. Fix ended up being to swap the display port plugs. Hasn’t been an issue since.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Similar to a problem I keep having…

        Which is every time I go to use my computer every single window is squished into the upper left hand corner into a tiny square

        If I minimize everything and then switch over to my computer, I can hover on the windows in the taskbar and they show the correct locations. But when any of them are unminimized they immediately squish to the upper left corner.

        It’s freaking annoying.

        • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          Switch your display cables, I can never remember if it’s display port or HDMI that doesn’t do this, but you’ve just landed on the wrong one.

          It’s cos when they switch off, the desktop workspace reduces to an old limit in windows (800×600 minimum desktop?). So all the windows are therefore reduced to that. For some silly reason the display spec included disconnection on sleep mode (not power off!).

          You may be able to tweak the monitor settings, too, but I’d start with figuring out if you’re using HDMI or DP and try getting the other cable

  • nargacu83@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    11 months ago

    Don’t know why but i had a bug (don’t know if i still do) on Linux, if i don’t turn on the monitor fast enough, it will never pick up the video signal until i start a session or restart the pc. It drove me crazy sometimes.

    • SaakoPaahtaa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6343·
      11 months ago

      Have you tried windows? It’s similar to linux but it works, you’ll get the hang of it real quick

        • DreamySweet@ani.socialEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Try opening them. The computer might have too much dust in it and the drafts might blow it out.

      • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        Is it a rolling distro or LTS? How many packages in the official repo? How easy is it to use? What desktop environment does it install by default? Does it package a recent Plasma? Oh and I’m assuming it’s systemd right?

        • aksdb@feddit.deEnglish
          441·
          11 months ago

          Lemmy is the right place for sarcastic comments though.

        • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          11 months ago

          Is there any place to do that?

          Who the fuck genuinely thinks Microsoft needs people to help promote their thoroughly entrenched OS? Might as well help promote eggs for breakfast.

          • CheesyFox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            i guess, apple consumers are too technologically impaired to promote linux to them, so i guess windows is a good start for them, if the next version of it won’t be even more of a coprorative shit of an OS of course.

      • The Octonaut@mander.xyzEnglish
        63·
        11 months ago

        Oh sure, unless they haven’t bundled your drivers and then you lose days of pain. Some people value their time and having an OS that they don’t need to configure everything for, buy specific hardware for, is good. There’s a reason Linux is the default for the computers most people use.

    • Ace! _SL/S@ani.socialEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Happens to me sometimes when my display freezes for some reason, making it unresponsive to any wake up signal my pc may send. After turning my display off/on, login in blindly and starting Xorg it works again. White LED (indicating no display signal) on my motherbord stays on though, and it’s really bright which forces me to restart anyway

    • monooxid@feddit.deEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Yes, i have the exact same problem as well (Linux Mint). Anybody got an idea how to solve this?

  • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
    281·
    11 months ago

    My experience has been that the more high-end my computer is, the slower it starts. At least for the BIOS, Windows has loaded very quickly since SSDs (Got my first one around 12 years ago).

    Fancy motherboards, memory training, it’s a bit sad that a 10 year old budget laptop can get to Windows quicker. Even though I don’t really care about the extra seconds of course.

    Hell, my new work laptop is a ThinkPad and Lenovo had issues with their BIOS for the entire year. Startup can take over a minute for that crap, despite being a $3000 machine.

    • mhz@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      Laptops tend to have a minimized/limited uefi implementation that initializes and boot the bootloader faster.

    • The Menemen!@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Yeah, is this maybe a ThinkPad thing? My work ThinkPad is also on the higher end side, don’t remember the exavy price, but was also above 3000€. And my 7 year old low class Asus gaming notebook (bought it for 1000€) without an SSD boots just as fast as the ThinkPad.

      • Vlyn@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Lenovo messed up the BIOS and still hasn’t fixed it properly yet. It’s also random as hell, I had 2 minute BIOS boot times. Went to the options and saved without changing anything, suddenly it got down to 30s.

        Total mess. A work colleague also had issues and Lenovo support told them to downgrade the BIOS to an older version. Didn’t help. Next ticket they refused support because the laptop didn’t have the newest version installed, lol.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      My 2002 Pentium M (desktop) with Intel motherboard booted instantly. I liked to use it long after it was obsolete because it booted so fast.

      Modern pcs are a hundred times faster and yet take so much longer. And don’t get me started on why Windows 10 takes so long from password to desktop.

  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    Wow, one of the OG old school meme AND used correctly… Haven’t seen one of these in a long time.

  • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    I need to upgrade displays badly. Currently have 2x 21" dell 1080p panels that have been good workhorses but… ugh. Getting old.

    I really don’t want to go 2x 4k, but multiple monitors are a must… not really liking curved displays, can anyone suggest decent, cheap, 1440p displays w/ hdr, decent refresh and color qual?

  • Aceticon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    I used to have this problem in my quest for a silent PC: make the loudest thing real quiet - say a passive watercooling rig with no fan and just a quiet aquarium pump, eliminating the CPU fan - and the next loudest becomes “unbearable”, fix that one - special watercooled graphics card, connected to the passive watercooling circuit - and the next loudest one becomes “too noisy”. Fix that one - new quiet power source with extra large slower and quieter fan and, you guessed it, it’s the next loudest noise source that gets on your nerves (in this case, it was harddisks, as all this was many years ago).

    Ultimatelly the solution was thinking “out of the box” (in more ways than one) - good quality noise reduction earphones.

    • isolatedscotchEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      at that point i’d just put the pc in another room and run cables

  • idiocracy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    81·
    11 months ago

    it’s funny because it’s true

    even my internet connection needs a couple more seconds to establish connect

  • Lev_Astov@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    As a projector user, I’m wondering why I spent so much effort to get Windows installed and formatted properly to use its ultra fast boot mode…

  • Ozzah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I’m not sure what’s up with mine, but it takes like a full 20-30 seconds to get past POST and then another 3 seconds from there to fully boot windows.

        • empireOfLove@lemmy.oneOPEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          I also have a zen4 cpu.

          The 30 second boots are memory training. The motherboard is basically training itself on how the DDR5 memory modules respond on every signal wire and it can be inordinately slow depending in memory amount. For whatever reason, AMD DDR5 systems are slower at it than comparable Intel DDR5 systems.

          Update your BIOS to the latest version then enabled “Memory Context Restore”. The bios will then save the last training results and stop taking 30 seconds to start up.