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Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by ryangittins »

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…

> Pivotal Labs

RIP Pivotal Tracker, and thank you for your involvement! It was a nice piece of software.

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Post by bluebarbet »

lgeorget wrote: post #38
coldblues wrote: post #35

Anyone who is using full disk encryption will be turning off their computer when they're not around. Hibernation is an option if you want to keep your state.

I was about to comment that exactly. If you computer is never switched off, your encryption is permanently bypassed.

True but in practice it's still worth something if a screen lock is used. The police won't be foiled but a casual thief is likely to unplug or reboot and at that point your data is protected.

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Post by SchemaLoad »

gonzalohm wrote: post #46
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.

What's the point of sleeping your computer? If you are not using it then it's better to just turn it off

On Windows and Linux it is better to just turn it off because sleep is broken on most hardware. But on Mac there is next to no advantage to doing that. MacOS sleep is also more of a hybrid between sleep and hibernate where it will after enough time offload the ram to the SSD and fully power down so the machine can be in "sleep" without any power drain.

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Post by SchemaLoad »

graemep wrote: post #188
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…

Linux users do not clean up AFAIK, and the article is by a Mac user who does clean up. Why would Linux and Windows users not use sleep? AFAIK everyone does.

I avoid sleep on my desktop because it often wakes up in a weird broken state, particularly with audio glitching. I avoid sleep on my Steamdeck because the battery slowly drains in sleep.

On my Macbook I always use sleep since there are no downsides.

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Post by annzabelle »

snailmailman wrote: post #183

I shut down my desktop every night. No reason to keep it on. I can save my work, all my tabs persist, it’s fine. My main complaint is that my PC seems to have crazy clock drift? And windows just doesn’t seem to care? It doesn’t actually cause problems but I will check and see that it’s off by >5 seconds and that just shouldn’t ever happen. My phone is always accurate to <0.05s and same in Linux. Idk why windows isn’t…

Tangent about clock drift: my phone (Pixel 9) drifts by about 5-10 minutes a day when in airplane mode. This doesn't sound like it would be a huge deal, but I do a lot of wilderness backpacking and very long flights where I'm keeping it in airplane mode for 36+ hours to save battery, and then at the end I need an accurate time to make the next flight or meet a ride.

Not really sure what to do about it because there is no official support for Pixels in this country.

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Post by Krssst »

> Maybe I’m a bit weird, but I like seeing all these warnings: “You have unsaved work! Are you sure?”

One of the reasons I don't like to reboot: Windows taking a few seconds to show the warning, so I have to either babysit the computer until it shuts down or come back the next day with an unrebooted computer.

Now I just use shutdown /f to force shutdown/reboot and forget about it.

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Post by avador »

Once I began the “start from zero” routine at work, I could not stop. It meant I had to know what to do to get back to my ideal dev env every morning. It meant I had the choice to automate that, or to leave some bits (or all bits) manual. It surprised me how much I preferred manual, and taught me to recognize when things were actually tedious vs premature shortcuts. Clarity trumps convenience, but, you know, not always.

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Post by Terr_ »

laserDinosaur wrote: post #126

I remember a big debate "back in the day" about the effects of shutting down your PC at night and the effect on the health of the CPU. The theory at the time was that by shutting down your PC every night, the temperature fluctuations would put more stress on the CPU, shorting its life span. However, the other side said that leaving on your PC all day and night would spend more time running and reduce its life span, s…

In my recollection, the tale was not temperature changes on startup, but the various electrical issues of getting things moving from standstill.

Either way, I just always used sleep-mode.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by clickety_clack »

kjellsbells wrote: post #151
dv35z wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Some would say, "Oh, Windows Update again"

I’m glad _someone_ is working on bringing the windows experience to Linux!
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