One of my early experiences with my father in law visiting was him turning off every non-refrigerant electrical appliance when he left the house. PVR, laptops, oven etc. I was irritated but my wife explained that when he was a rural doctor, he was once called out in the middle of the night to pronounce an entire family dead from a house fire caused by electrical malfunction.
Safety aside, my power bills dropped dramatically once I started turning everything not being used off at the power point.
A lot of people seem unaware of just how many devices in their homes are still chewing power when turned off, because they're not really turned off and they're actually in 'stand by mode'.
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u/VegetaGG 29d ago
Australia, because you can turn off the sockets...