Linux

People leave their PC on constantly? I understand leaving servers running but i always turn my PC on in the morning, then off at night once im finished.

My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it's only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.

One or two of my computers have been on for about five years. The laptop I use mostly has been on for several months. But I'm a very teched-up person. I've got computers in various forms all over the place. Actually less nowadays compared to many years ago. I don't shut anything down because I've got various services in operation 24/7.

Today I learned the inxi command does so much more than I thought. I've only used it to check on my RAM once

I'm surprised how many people turn their computers off. My desktop uptime is 4 day, but, I do put it to sleep at night (which I think counts towards its uptime).

I will look into hibernating. The reason I don't shut down is because I usually end up with carefully placed windows and lots of ongoing projects all over. Restarting would mean I'd have to start all that up again - assuming I remember what I was doing.

It's off right now.

Also, inxi? Better use uptime, that command is actually available on all systems and literally exists to check uptime.

0 hours.

It is currently off because I don't leave it running overnight when I am not using it.

i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.

That was my family's email server 5 months ago:

So roughly 2500 days today 🙂

Inxi? Mission center? What are those things?

Just run uptime like a normal person.

Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?

like 8 hours

I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn't bother me

mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.

PC != server.

i've been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.

I turn it off every night when I'm done. It boots quickly and I mostly just use it for the web browser and steam.

My work computer (Mac) I put to sleep because I don't always want to open all the terminals and IDE and such every time.

Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?

• I run Bazzite, which updates itself in the background, but needs a restart to complete
• It boots in seconds, because modern hard drives are crazy fast
• The standby-LED is annoying when I sleep

My laptop is usually on for a week, but I restart it from time to time, for the same reasons, and because devices need some sleep too! 😴

Server is rebooted, as needed, for updates. I think it just got a kernel update two weeks ago, so it probably only has ~14 days of uptime.

My desktop and laptop are shut down when not in use. Leaving them on when not in use is pointless.

Never understood obsessions with "uptime". If you have high numbers for uptime, you're a bad sysadmin/maintainer of your hardware unless the appliance is purpose-built to be always up and air gapped.

I'm convinced the reason all my drives used to fail is because I would leave the PC on, and only reboot for updates. Otherwise I would just put them to sleep. Three years later, I turn off the PC every night and haven't had a failed drive since.

I don't run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I'm done using them!

On any command line you can likely just run a single letter command: w

About 90 mins. I shut it down when i finish every and turn it off at the wall (fuskibg standby LEDs). I can go days without booting it back up. I use #LMDE

Mine is off at the moment.

I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.

I cold-boot daily because fucking nvidia 👺

My laptop gets shut down every night, booted every morning. If I suspend it sometimes spontaneously wakes later, but boot is so fast anyway so it’s fine.

My server gets updated and rebooted weekly. I don’t bother checking CVE bulletins, I just upgrade weekly.

I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I'm not using it.

I always shut it down every night, so usually not much more than 12 hours at best.

It's like a daedra, it's been on, has always been on, and will be on forever

BlueEther@BlueEthers-MacBook-Air ~ % uptime
17:18  up 47 days,  6:26, 2 users, load averages: 2.19 2.61 2.56

blueaether@lemmy:~$ uptime
 04:25:37 up 204 days, 19:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.16

The TV/server has been up for 38 days, I think it got turned off by mistake last month

It's off at the moment. I turn it off whenever I'm not using it for security reasons, and also just noise reasons so the fan doesn't bother me. It boots relatively quickly so I'm unbothered.