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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! 😴
I made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.
i've been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.
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.
I don't run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I'm done using them!
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.
even when your pc is on, the drives should power off when they haven't been utilized for a while. i used to keep my machines running 24/7, and i mean not even letting them sleep, and i have never had a drive fail. since electricity prices started going up i let them autosuspend to save money. if you have mechanical hard drives, make sure they are mounted in a proper orientation. with SSDs, there are lots of manufacturers out there, so choose a reputable one.
22:57:20 up 70 days, 16:04, 21 users, load average: 1.10, 1.14, 1.02
Honestly if you were expecting a drive failure in three years, you probably have some other problem. The SSD in my desktop is clocking 7.3 years and I never shut down my machines except to reboot. On my servers, I have run used HDDs from ebay for up to ten years (only retired for upgrades). My NAS is currently running a mixture of used drives from Ebay and some refurbs from Amazon, and I don't anticipate seeing any issues for at least a few more years.
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
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I cold-boot daily because fucking nvidia 👺
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.
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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.
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.
On any command line you can likely just run a single letter command: w
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.
Uptime: 26d 17h 44m
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.
I always shut it down every night, so usually not much more than 12 hours at best.
7 days currently, 30 days on the previous boot. I had to open it up to install extra drives.
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
Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.
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.
23m,Short ik.
My laptop has been up for 123 days. It gets put in standby when it's not in use. I should probably reboot into a new kernel soon.
My desktop gets shut down at night because it's power hungry.
My server gets shut down about once a year for cleaning and hardware upgrades.
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.
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