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
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.
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.
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 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’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 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.
I reboot mine when I’m bored
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
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.
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
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
As AOL guy once said
“You got mail”
Damnn what an uptime! Cheer to that!
At last, a fellow sysadmin! Nice work.
Default username: “dr” ?
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.
Those proteins and RNAs are now the domain of deep learning, thankyouverymuch! Pull the plug!
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)
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
Inxi? Mission center? What are those things?
Just run uptime like a normal person.
