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Thursday, December 19, 2024
and come to think of it, I feel like boomers also keep random appliances unplugged when they leave the house
or don't leave the house when the oven/stove is on or w/e
I unplug everything when I leave for 2-3 weeks
I also am stingy and do not want my microwave clock to waste 2 cents
Pika, I'm not going to make fun of you
what do you leave plugged in?
Its less unplugging and more I just hit the switch on my power bar
I need to know how much you and my grandmother overlapped
I do not unplug my stove or fridge
because she had a really weird list of things
everything else is currently unplugged or power bar switched off
I also barely have anything plugged in normally other than my PC setup
and that is just me hitting my powerbar
if you had a wall phone charger thing
the little brick
I brought that with me
would you leave that in
so yes, I unplugged it
no but like, if you had multiple
do you only have 1?
I would not have multiple plugged in in the first place
yes, I only have one
I only need one
I have one phone
what about the one that came with your last phone
idk, my pile keeps growing
I have no idea where that is, probably somewhere in my family home in kitchener
or the cord was fraying and I threw it out
I forget
I have only ever had two phones, so its not like I have a lot of them
if you had one in your room at home, and one at school
would you unplug the wall brick before you left for a month
See, I am failing the breakfast hypothetical here, so I will just say, probably not. But the real answer is the one at my home is always at my desk because that is where I usually am, and I do turn the power bar off for that one which is effectively unplugging it
no so, that's the one thing my grandmother would unplug that I funementally didn't understand
her list had plenty of stuff I could care less about
I think its more so anything that is actively drawing passive power
so things with lights on them or whatever
her rationale was fire safety
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time i only got my first one when i started taking GED classes, which was around the time i would have been in like, 11th grade i think it was
My first one was in grade 12 because my mom wanted me to have one since I would be bussing to university
I did not want one at any point before that
maybe power costs more where you are Pika, but in VA I feel like the cost of my wasteful energy use is $20/year max
I am just stingy spooky
and individual things literally arre worthless
Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak I did not want one at any point before that
yeah pretty much the same scenario.
my electric bill is usually 60-75/month
yeah it's more expensive there then
the streamer house with my servers, plants, and not giving a shit about power draw, I pay about the same
I know it is legitimately negligable, it just feels wrong
Same reason I shut my phone off at night
I am not using it, it is off
I mean, I agree with Pika at some level
because I turn off my car when I'm not using it
so it is a cost thing
I have a proper alarm clock
Also yes, that is unplugged spooky
if electricity was expensive, I'd probably have mechanisms that turn stuff off, probably just have a breaker level cutoff switch for everything but the fridges/computers
but it's on-par with what I pay for water
which is to say, essentially free
I am glad I do not pay for water
or heat
he collects rain water
water and heat are covered in my rent
I only have to pay for electricity
natural gas for heating is the most expensive part of the streamer house, but it's also one that I don't really give a fuck about
I'm not setting up elaborate heating cycles to save a buck
(that part of the house actually does work that wad Dialga)