This is incredibly important to everyone concerned with their carbon footprint and energy conservation.
Remember our little explanation about blinking lights and spinning wheels appearing for our benefit? Well, this is the same idea when we see the light blinking on our power button.Ī blinking power button means that the computer is still very much alive, but it is handling some issues that need no or zero participation by us the users. Many of our devices are even smart enough to go to sleep automatically, when we leave them alone for a time. The truth is the device is resting in a low-power mode. Asleep can be misleading because we may be led to think that the computer is chilling out and thinking about its next vacation in Silicon Valley. The power button blinks on our computer, usually when our computer is, what we call, asleep. This is no different for the power button on our device. Therefore, computer creators decided we need some proof the computer is actually working. Humans cannot stand to sit and see nothing happening on the computer, even when the computer is moving at a feverish pace to settle our request to visit a web page. We also have to understand that that weird circle that appears when we navigate to a new website is for our comfort.
This is to say that flashes and blinks are for our edification. Our machine has no urgent need to blink, flash or squeak to let us know that all of this is happening. As you read this article, your computer is performing massive amounts of information gathering, update checks, and handling the buffering on that document you started but did not finish. They can do all of the calculations of finding information, displaying images and text on our phones and laptop screens and a host of other mysterious functions without telling us anything.
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