I'm recently retired myself, so no "work" changes for me. But, the wife runs a small educational non-profit and I'm helping her shift the instructional format from on-site to virtual for her staff, as schools here have gone virtual through the end of the year. My kids are in high-school, so are pretty self regulating when at home.
My big computer related project is a challenge from the wife: She says that if the rest of the family can turn off/sleep their computers when not in use, I should be able to too. She also wants me to reduce the power draw, noise, and heat coming from my home office/lab/workshop/cave (yikes!) Makes a certain amount of sense, as almost nothing in there is actually in use unless I'm in there using it. Even the media server isn't needed if nobody is wanting to watch anything. Plus, while power here isn't too expensive (Sacramento, CA area), we do have tiered billing. So, the more we use, the more we pay per kilowatt.
The argument that its not good to keep turning servers on and off won't fly with her, as she knows I probably won't be using any of it hard/long enough to "wear it out" from powercycling. And, TBH, I agree with her. I upgrade stuff too often
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So, I'm tinkering with how to gracefully shutdown/sleep/hibernate/wake/turn on everything, unattended in the case of the switch in my office and the Unraid box (the media server), maybe others as well.
I see a bunch of forum advice requests in my future!