I have been going strong for 34 days and 5 hours.
You can check by running inxi in the command line or checking the CPU in Mission Center
Inxi? 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 turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.
Most people use sleep or hibernate, still uses very little power (none in hibernate) but you don’t have to open all your stuff every time.
Even with the power of ssds?
SSDs make hibernate even more powerful
That’s why things like suspend-then-hibernate are popular now
Hibernate is even better with a fast SSD.
Mine boots in 35s, according to
systemd-analyze critical-chainwith 4 of those seconds attributed to me typing in my password.I’m astounded anyone would leave their machine on overnight.
(At the same time, I’m quite happy to leave my phone in light sleep mode overnight with airplane mode on, so I clearly have some double-standards here)
Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol
0 hours.
It is currently off because I don’t leave it running overnight when I am not using it.
It’s off right now.
Also, inxi? Better use
uptime, that command is actually available on all systems and literally exists to check uptime.uptime -pfor a human-readable format. Here’s mine on my Hetzner VPS:
root@snapshot-199288474-ubuntu-16gb-hel1-1:~# uptime -p up 8 weeks, 6 days, 8 minutes
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
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.
Eh, like that’s fair its personal preference but the energy waste of just having your PC idle is just weird to me. (Folding@home is totally reasonable)
Those proteins and RNAs are now the domain of deep learning, thankyouverymuch! Pull the plug!
With several comments now showing surprise about this, is sleep mode or hibernation not common knowledge?? Windows and every Linux distro I’ve tried has sleep mode enabled by default.
I wouldn’t, and I don’t think most people would, consider being in hibernation mode or sleep mode as “on”. Sure, it will add to your uptime, but like its a demonstrably different power state.
Because they’re processing data all the time? They’re doing work?
Mm, fair if you are running some task while you’re not “actively” using the PC. Although given the general sentiment of people in the replies, the leading reason is “I’m lazy” or “its convenient”.
Everybody uses computers for different things.
No arguments here
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn’t bother me
That was my family’s email server 5 months ago:
So roughly 2500 days today 🙂
security updates are for cowards, amirite? 😂
seriously though, Debian 7 stopped receiving security updates a couple of years prior to the last time you rebooted, and there have been a lot of exploitable vulnerabilities fixed between then and now. do your family a favor and replace that mailserver!
From the 2006 modification times, i wonder: did you actually start off with a 3.1 (sarge) install and upgrade it to 7 (wheezy) and then stopped upgrading at some point? if so, personally i would be tempted to try continuing to upgrade it all the way to bookworm, just to marvel at debian stable’s stability… but only after moving its services to a fresh system :)
security updates are for cowards, amirite? 😂
The server isn’t exposed to the internet. It’s a local IMAP server.
The server isn’t exposed to the internet. It’s a local IMAP server.
if it is processing emails that originate from the internet, it is exposed to the internet
At last, a fellow sysadmin! Nice work.
As AOL guy once said
“You got mail”
Damnn what an uptime! Cheer to that!
Mine is off at the moment.
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.
I know right I do the same but for my home pc it’s easier to get into the groove when it’s all in front of you in 3 seconds
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.
uptime 18:58 up 145 days, 4:57, 1 users, load averages: 6.19 4.70 5.30It’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.
I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I’m not using it.
My graphic driver’s get corrupted when my computer goes to sleep
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
You might be able to turn off sleep indication (blinking power led) in bios btw:)
…sunovabetch…I literally just facepalmed. Feel dumb for not having even considered looking into if I could do that. Well…guess papa has a weekend project…
Yeah but then you’d be lying to your wife in order to save 1 minute of boot time… Doesn’t seem worth it.
…damn you…this is also true.
I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.
