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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 Gigachad »

dv35z wrote: post #107

I have a cron job which restarts my computer every day (Linux Mint Debian edition). I like waking up to a "fresh" computer, and since I know that it will restart every day - this is a "forcing function" to (1) be diligent about saving things that are important, (2) treating browser tabs, random notes, etc as ephemeral, and bookmarking the important stuff. I used to work at an office where we pair-programmed with clie…

If your computer has any kind of secure boot / boot chain attestation stuff going on, like all phones do now, rebooting clears out pretty much all malware. Software bugs can put the system in to a bad state which can be abused by malware, but none of it can persist through a reboot since everything is checked and measured from scratch during the boot.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by hnuser123456 »

Gigachad wrote: post #171
dv35z wrote: post #107

I have a cron job which restarts my computer every day (Linux Mint Debian edition). I like waking up to a "fresh" computer, and since I know that it will restart every day - this is a "forcing function" to (1) be diligent about saving things that are important, (2) treating browser tabs, random notes, etc as ephemeral, and bookmarking the important stuff. I used to work at an office where we pair-programmed with clie…

If your computer has any kind of secure boot / boot chain attestation stuff going on, like all phones do now, rebooting clears out pretty much all malware. Software bugs can put the system in to a bad state which can be abused by malware, but none of it can persist through a reboot since everything is checked and measured from scratch during the boot.

This feels rather overstated. Your firmware check isn't going to tell you if a repo package installed/updated by your package manager got compromised, which is apparently increasingly common.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by icedchai »

kibwen wrote: post #75
kps wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I believe this is because of how Mac is designed Yes, that they actually got sleep working properly.

I still remember reaching into my backpack to retrieve my Macbook in sleep mode only to find it hot to the touch, having woken up for some goddamn stupid reason. We had "proper" sleep decades ago: we called it "hibernate". Modern "smart sleep" is a technological regression, and Apple is as big an offender as any.

Sure. Do you shut off your phone every time you put it in your pocket?

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by someonebaggy »

kylemaxwell wrote: post #139
doublerabbit wrote: post #134

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8:59PM up 1858 days, 22:51, 1 user, load averages: 1.69, 2.21, 1.60 dblrabbit@cookie:~ $ uname -a FreeBSD cookie.server 12.2-BETA1 FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1 r365618 GENERIC amd64 9:05PM up 1859 days, 13 mins, 1 user, load averages: 1.19, 1.32, 1.39 dblrabbit@mookie:~ $ uname -a FreeBSD mookie.server 12.2-BETA1 FreeBSD 12.2-BETA1 r365618 GENERIC amd64 9:14PM up 245 days, 8:46, 1 user, load averages: 1.26, 0.97, 0.91 dblrabbi…

I dunno how much easier life was back in May 2021... a year into the pandemonium, heh.

Easier for some, harder for others. The economy was more unfucked because the government printed tons of free money (mostly to business owners).

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by topgrain2 »

apparent wrote: post #130
miyoji wrote: post #95

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Just close them. You're never going to read them. If you really think there's something you need, export the browser state to an archive file, then delete in 10 years after you've never consulted it once. (Disclaimer: I'm aware that there may be valid reasons for this workflow, but in most cases it's just digital hoarding and the above advice is sorely needed. If you really need 1800 tabs, you know who you are and yo…

Brave has a function to bookmark all open tabs. I have used that from time to time. Or just made a temp file and written all the URLs to it, in case I want to open a few/dozen of them after rebooting.

I think all browsers have that now. I use it 3-4 times a year with Safari on both macOS and iOS. That way I feel comfortable closing them all without worrying about “losing” anything.

I’ve been doing this, or something similar, for at least 15 years now. Dozens of mass-bookmark “folders”. I’ve never once looked at the bookmarks I made, not a single time. I even have old bookmark files archived here and there, from machines and browsers for which the bookmarks weren’t auto-backed-up to “cloud” storage like my Safari stuff is. As soon as I can get a local llm running that’s up to the task, I’ll probably have it build some kind of table with categorization out of all of them, then have it edit out entire categories of crap until I have something I might actually scan over to recover a few interesting tidbits. Finally make some use of them, now that tools can take enough of the pain out to make that a less-daunting prospect.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

kylemaxwell wrote: post #19

I remember when Linux users were practically obsessive about uptime and restarting felt like a sign of failure. This was at a time when Windows seemingly needed to restart once or twice a day, at least. These days I like to turn my work Mac off at the end of the week just so I feel a literal sense of closure. It's not really the applications minimizing and running in the background; it's ME.

> I remember when Linux users were practically obsessive about uptime and restarting felt like a sign of failure

I remember it too, like it was yesterday. Wait - it was yesterday.

I see people rebooting Linux boxes to cargo cult trying to fix all kinds of issues and I’m like - rebooting is not a solution. This is not Microsoft Windows.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by Marsymars »

doublerabbit wrote: post #142
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #90

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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.

The implication here is that “done with whatever” happens, rather than “start another thing” while the previous thing is still in progress.
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