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.
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Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.
I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I'm not using it.
This would be me, except the wife says it's "wasting energy." And rather than argue with her I've decided that in an effort for the dream of "happy wife, happy life" I'll just deal with sub 1min boot time
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Only a few days, maybe 12 if I had to guess. Im running with memory overcommit disabled and building a rust project with vscode and Firefox open will hang the kernel eventually. I caved to the kernel's expectations and set up a swap partition but it still dies.
I should say it's been on for probably 2 years straight ignoring reboots
I never turn it off it gets an occasional reset when updates need to be installed but that's about it
My work laptop has been up for 26 days, 17:24. My primary server at home has been online for 42 days, 21:27. Personal laptop - 45 days, 20:51. The primary server of my exocortex has been online and crunching away for 278 days, 19:48.
i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.
Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol
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I think my desktop has been on the past couple days because I've been too lazy to turn it off because I caught the flu and basically slept the past couple days away.
Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?
because I can KVM from one computer to another in under 1 second and I dont feel like adding 14 to that. Plus Folding@Home.
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I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.
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.
Exactly. I have services running with staggered automated updates/reboots to keep things stable. Since at least one of them is always available, it's like having no down-time but with actual stability and redundancy.
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When I had big desktop and all, it was running for days/months. Now, I have a miniPC and I start it up Monday morning and shut if down Friday afternoon.
I cold-boot daily because fucking nvidia 👺
I can go weeks without rebooting if I want to Using a gtx 1080Ti with it. No idea why so many folks still have these big issues. Some minor issues sure.
seriously how do you guys all have Nvidia issues this is a gtx 1660 super
I was wondering that, too. I've got a pair of GTX 1660 Supers in Leandra running a simulation, and they've been crunching away for nine days now.
Doesn't seem to matter what I do, the card simply refuses to go to sleep. And there's no option to switch it off in the bios 😭
23m,Short ik.
7 days currently, 30 days on the previous boot. I had to open it up to install extra drives.
There was a period where I was testing my laptop's hibernation so I got uptime to around 30 days.
But now, The highest uptime I can reach is around 2-3 days if I forget to turn it off and leave it either plugged in or on a high battery so it lasts until the next day.
PC != server.
Why do you think it's different?
A server needs to be available, a PC doesn't. As long as your PC is not serving something 24/7.
Are you telling that to others or me?
I think you should tell that to others
There is no benefit in letting your PC run for days, its just waste of energy and bad behaviour.
When you hibernate, "uptime" counts it even though the computer is off, as it's more of a "time since cold boot".
So I turn off my computer every day, but have an uptime of weeks now.
Nice, so you are turning off your computer and pad your "uptime". clap
I'm just explaining how people end up with high uptimes despite not keeping their computer on all the time. There is no purpose to "padding your uptime".
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I don't run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I'm done using them!
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! 😴
0 hours.
It is currently off because I don't leave it running overnight when I am not using it.
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.
Mine turned off yesterday for an update.
53 min
12 days and 17 hours. As another commenter pointed out, checked with uptime
07:38:25 up 15 days, 15:54, 2 users, load average: 2,93, 2,24, 1,65