<div><div dir="auto">The discussion about what the consoles can or can not do is honestly not solving anything. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Saying that the consoles should or should not be doing a thing is simply trying to throw the problem to someone else. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 15:40 Carsten Bormann <<a href="mailto:cabo@tzi.org">cabo@tzi.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2020-02-12, at 20:45, Mike Hammett <<a href="mailto:nanog@ics-il.net" target="_blank">nanog@ics-il.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Aren't most modern consoles on whether they're "on" or not? IE: It's not a full power up from a dead stop, 0 watts power usage.<br>
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<a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/7528/the-xbox-one-mini-review-hardware-analysis/5" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.anandtech.com/show/7528/the-xbox-one-mini-review-hardware-analysis/5</a><br>
says two-digit standby power (which they say is needed for background updating). At least in Germany, nobody sane will leave the thing in that expensive mode (a watt-year is $3 here). Switchable extension power cords are being actively marketed here for these power hogs.<br>
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Grüße, Carsten<br>
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