Turn it off when you're not using it. Save on energy.
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Even 50W, 24/7, is 36 kWh/month. $3 where I live; $12 in CA.
If you also disconnect the power, just remember that this drains the CMOS battery in the motherboard. That's okay, just know that it may help to replace it if your machine has issues booting, time resets, etc.
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In a browser I right click on a bookmark folder to open all the bookmarks in separate tabs. I usually do this with my social sites.
To update Fedora "sudo dnf upgrade". I used to use the software store but that often requires a reboot.
Windows+L to lock the computer.
I always have my vpn, terminal window, and qbittorrent start at boot.
Use a tiling window manager like sway.
Get some big HDDs and self host your own file storage on zfs. Same for media servers like jellyfin. You can also host qBitTorrent web client so it's accessible from anywhere.
Set up a VM in Hetzner cloud and host vaultwarden.
Expose your services over wireguard.
I was not familiar with Hetzner Cloud until now. I have used VPS found in the $1 & $2 lists at lowendbox, as I am super-cheap.
Just be sure to keep local backups, in case the provider evaporates.
Not most used, but I recently discovered a lot of new options in COSMIC's launcher, and I use them all the time.
Just type ? and you'll see what I mean.
Dunno if Emacs Lisp counts as a life hack, but I've been slowly learning it, and it's very nice to be able to setup custom workflows with such a high degree of customization (and a substantial amount of flycheck yelling at me)
My computer gets hacked all the time, I'm pretty used to it now.