Things lurking in corners

[watervole]

We'be been tidying up the office today - mainly to get the dust levels down.

While clearing out an old computer, waveney found two power bricks still plugged in....

Heaven knows how long it is since the items they were powering were used. In fact, one of them wasn't actually attached to anything...

Ah, well, that's a fraction more shaved off the electricity bill.

Anyone else care to look behind their equipment and see if you can beat our score of redundant stuff still drawing power?

I might even find a small prize (chocolate sized) for the star discovery.

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[catalenamara.livejournal.com]

>>>Anyone else care to look behind their equipment and see if you can beat our score of redundant stuff still drawing power?

Rather the opposite. The computer had been in to the repair shop. So had the new external drive, which had never worked from the moment I bought it.

I brought everything back home. Voila, computer up and running, ditto printer, ditto scanner. External hard drive? Computer can't even see it...!

.....later on that same day, feeling quite stupid, I realize that with the Medusa's knot of wiring attached to the computer and all of its accessories, I never plugged in the external hard drive. I'm so happy I figured this out before I called the shop back and gave them a piece of my mind... Considering I forgot to plug it in, if I'd given them a piece of my mind, I wouldn't have had much left...!