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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 darkstar_16 »

itake wrote: post #324
GTP wrote: post #306

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Put like this, could sound like malicious compliance. But, if you disable whatever security product your company mandates on your company laptop and then you somehow get a malware, they will point the finger at you. Saying "I wouldn't have been able to work otherwise" will probably not work. Reboot your company laptop, let it install any patches it likes to, then complain to your manager. It is their resposibility to…

> It is their resposibility to figure this out. You're responsible for your own career. During the next calibration call, your manager can't be like, "well he spent 8 hours each week resetting up his machine after a reboot, so we need to give him credit for that too." Your job is to deliver impact, not fight system configurations.

If your boss is not able to back you up for something like this, it's time to change job.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by RegW »

petecooper wrote: post #333
gloosx wrote: post #278

My Macbook needs a restart periodically. Somehow my quite limited disk space (500GB) is getting lower and lower and lower to the point where spotlight will stop working. After restart, I magically get 50GB of disk space back, I'm not sure what is wrong with it and I never took the time to investigate, but I guess it's caches and temp files of all kinds. I also HATE the invention of "open all apps and windows back so…

>Somehow my quite limited disk space (500GB) is getting lower and lower and lower to the point where spotlight will stop working. I know you didn't ask, but check your Time Machine snapshots in Disk Utility. If you prefer a CLI approach, this should work: for d in $(tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates | grep "-"); do sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $d; done

Also didn't ask about docker and "docker system prune".

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by cindyllm »

chimpanzee2 wrote: post #350
nickjj wrote: post #200

I've been keeping my desktop machines running 24/7 for ~25 years. I only reboot when necessary. I remember having around 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 when it went end of life. Having a UPS helps a lot to protect against short power outages or blips. Nowadays I run Arch Linux, it's been 12 days since a reboot. Not trying to break records, I reboot to apply kernel updates when it's convenient. Since I use tmux and h…

> 24/7 for ~25 years r u ok?

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Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by nickjj »

chimpanzee2 wrote: post #350
nickjj wrote: post #200

I've been keeping my desktop machines running 24/7 for ~25 years. I only reboot when necessary. I remember having around 280 days of uptime on Windows 7 when it went end of life. Having a UPS helps a lot to protect against short power outages or blips. Nowadays I run Arch Linux, it's been 12 days since a reboot. Not trying to break records, I reboot to apply kernel updates when it's convenient. Since I use tmux and h…

> 24/7 for ~25 years r u ok?

Yes, so are the hardware components.

Current machine has been running since 2014. SMART stats on the SSD shows 100,586 powered on hours which is 4,191 days.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by Gigachad »

anthk wrote: post #342
Gigachad wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you go with an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Bazzite, every single update is a clean ISO install. And then in your user only install things through Flatpak while checking there aren't dangerous permissions enabled you will be much better off than a normal linux setup were mutations can be placed all over the place in a way that is impossible to audit or secure.

Not for $HOME and ~/.profile and such.

With flatpak, every app would have it's own virtual home to store config files, and for editing documents they can use the portals feature to allow the user to open files without having full filesystem access.

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Post by nosioptar »

ectospheno wrote: post #349
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.

If you aren’t rebooting a Linux box 15 to 30 times per year then you aren’t applying kernel security updates. I view uptime fanatics as walking security problems and assign an appropriately low trust value for their actions on computers in general.

Not necessarily, live patching is possible.

https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by chimpanzee2 »

nickjj wrote: post #355
chimpanzee2 wrote: post #350

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 24/7 for ~25 years r u ok?

Yes, so are the hardware components. Current machine has been running since 2014. SMART stats on the SSD shows 100,586 powered on hours which is 4,191 days.

Have you also measured TBW on your SSD?

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by francisofascii »

one33seven wrote: post #302
throw-nodox-23 wrote: post #295

I.. I cannot restart my computer. Why? I work at a smallish agency as a developer. A few years ago we were acquired by a massive global corporation as part of the typical vertical integration strategy these big boys usually run with. Anyway, that’s all dandy as we otherwise would have perished during Covid. But this parent company, as many others, have some rather stringent security policies when it comes to IT. They…

This is your bosses problem. Apply security patches and reboot. Find a book to read.

Wish it was that easy. Unfortunately for many of us, our job is more about navigating roadblocks like ZScaler, negotiating with security people, and figuring out work-arounds, rather than focusing on developing software. Our bosses tell us to figure it out.

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Post by Suzuran »

throw-nodox-23 wrote: post #295

I.. I cannot restart my computer. Why? I work at a smallish agency as a developer. A few years ago we were acquired by a massive global corporation as part of the typical vertical integration strategy these big boys usually run with. Anyway, that’s all dandy as we otherwise would have perished during Covid. But this parent company, as many others, have some rather stringent security policies when it comes to IT. They…

Your problem is not to circumvent security policies. Doing that places you at fault for whatever may happen. Reboot and comply fully with all security mandates. When productivity fails to meet expectations, that is a problem for your superiors to resolve, not you. Know your place and accept it.
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