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Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by Cider9986 »

throawayonthe wrote: post #138
Cider9986 wrote: post #117

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On GrapheneOS, restarting also brings the device to a BFU state, which makes it loads harder for an adversary with physical access to unlock it.

yep, and this is the case for both major mobile operating systems fun thing is that graphene had the feature to automatically reboot on a timer after inactivity for a while, but now ios also ships it :D

I remember something where on maybe mainstream Androids you'd have to fully turn off in order to turn it into BFU, but maybe it does just by restarting now.

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Post by doublerabbit »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #90
notabotiswear wrote: post #83

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… Why…?

Think of it as a memory aide combined with a to-do list.

I can't. My mind explodes just having 10 tabs open. I need a clean browser, done with whatever, close tab. Reopen if I need that site again.

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Post by trashface »

gonzalohm wrote: post #4

I don't have any data to prove it but I think Mac users don't bother "cleaning up" after they are done with their computers. I think windows and Linux users usually shut down their laptops when they are done. I believe this is because of how Mac is designed, nothing really closes. You close an app and it's just "minimized". Same behavior as with the lid, you close the lid and it suspends. If I recall correctly, at so…

On linux a lot of the time you kinda have to shut down because it either won't go to sleep ("failed to freeze" some process or another) or it will hang or lock up during/after wake - especially if it has nvidia with its binary blobs, but i've had problems with (in kernel, open source) network card drivers too. Since I first had problems like this with linux 2 decades ago, it seems like they will never be able to figure it out.

Some of this seems to be getting worse with the move to wayland. There is no design concept like windows D3D device reset or lost device, or display timeout/recovery, so drivers are apparently charged with perfectly remembering all the state that compositors create, through all the sleep states, with predictably bad results.

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Post by artisinal »

dv35z wrote: post #135
artisinal wrote: post #116

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A slightly more fun version: 0 0 * * * sleep $((RANDOM % 86400)) && /usr/sbin/shutdown -r +5 "Rebooting in 5 minutes. Run 'shutdown -c' to cancel"

Some would say "Chaotic evil". Some would say "Always be prepared!!"

Chaotic evil is my favorite article from The Daily WTF:

  12 22 * * * kill 21342

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by doublerabbit »

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #14

FreeBSD is my daily driver and I only reboot for major upgrades (which is required). I never power off cause I work on it, off and on, throughout the day and night (for my own company).

BSD daily driver too.

Just recently bought a new NVme so I had to reformat, but went 80+ days without a reboot.

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Post by zaik »

tamimio wrote: post #113

Rebooting desktops or laptops is ok, rebooting your servers is an anxiety induced task, rebooting your archos linux, well, be prepared to spend an hour troubleshooting afterwards.

I run an XMPP server (Prosody) on Arch Linux since 2020. I upgrade and restart once every week and so far catastrophe has only struck once.

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Post by frantzmiccoli »

I delayed upgraded to Tahoe, now I need to restart about every week or so, or I will get random lag and freezes.

I also need to restart my iPhone or my airpods will refuse to connect.

I preferred the days where I would restart after 6 months, just because it felt right.

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Post by dwb »

LoganDark wrote: post #118
dwb wrote: post #111

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Right, I see. That is the traditional behaviour but there’s lots of apps that don’t do that, and closing the last window does also quit the app.

That's a perfectly acceptable practice for apps that only ever have one window. For document-based apps or apps that have multiple windows, usually the convention on Mac is for closing the last window to not also quit the app. But of course there are exceptions in both directions, it's not a hard and fast rule.

For sure, I agree.
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