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.
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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
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.
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.
I have a well-fenced server that I inherited 20 years ago and, but for power outages, has been in operation throughout. It survived a p2v but will not survive the coming v2v. #rhel4 #vmscare
I turn mine off to save power when I'm not actively using it. I have a small 65 watt server that stays on all the time. Currently it has been up for 3 months or so.
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.
I reboot mine when I'm bored
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
up 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutes
Mine is off at the moment.
Uptime: 9 days, 13 hours, 36 mins
uptime
18:58 up 145 days, 4:57, 1 users, load averages: 6.19 4.70 5.30Inxi? Mission center? What are those things?
Just run uptime like a normal person.
tbf, inxi is surprisingly powerful (dunno if that's the word... Insightful maybe?).
I made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.
It's like a daedra, it's been on, has always been on, and will be on forever
Kstuff but on the desktop. Am I right? Either that or SSI the desktop so I can shunt processes over for the patch run and not have to close sessions.
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn't bother me
I've never had a Windows machine that can stay on longer than ~3 days before developing weird behaviour so it's off right now until I get home.
Uptime: 26d 17h 44m
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