THthunderbong·Feb 15, 2023Submission
Circadian – Suspend-on-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management
97 points · Open discussionmrmekon
circadian
Rust2023–2023
mrmekon / circadian
circadian
Suspend-On-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management
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Suspend-On-Idle Daemon for GNU/Linux Power Management
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2 sourcesI wrote something remarkably similar a few years ago, for similar reasons. I was pretty baffled that nothing similar already existed. Auto-wake with the RTC timer was what I really wanted.
Link, in case you care: https://github.com/mrmekon/circadian
I have a "NAS", which is really an enormous desktop tower crammed full of hard drives. It auto-wakes once per day, pulls backups from my various servers all over the place, then returns to sleep.
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