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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 throw-the-towel »

drbscl wrote: post #346
throw-nodox-23 wrote: post #308

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Yeah.. that’s a bit where the shoe pinches. We could just grab a book and lean back - but being 0.017% (!) of the total global workforce (we’re ~70) we’d easily be seen as insignificant if we continuously don’t meet our targets. So we’re a bit stuck between a rock and a hard place. Do we keep rolling our rock up the hill and keep going, or risk it rolling over us and squooshing us into oblivion? At this point, I’m re…

> I enjoy my job a lot I'll be real with you, I wouldn't make a throwaway account to talk about a bad company policy if I enjoyed my job. I'd recommend looking for another, the job market is nowhere near as bad as people claim (at least for non-junior positions).

The market being bad is exactly the reason to start looking for a new job now. It's probably going to be a long process, so you shouldn't wait to start it before being fired / put on a PIP / etc.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by nickjj »

chimpanzee2 wrote: post #358
nickjj wrote: post #355

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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?

SMART stats shows it's at 54% health remaining, all tests passed without errors.

The drive might be too old to report back TBW. It's a Crucial 256 GB SATA 3.1 SSD.

It has LBAs written which is 138292009426. The sector size is 512 bytes.

I think you can calculate TBW from that?

(138292009426 * 512) / 1000000000000 = ~70.8 TB written?

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by jpeeler »

jauntywundrkind wrote: post #59
da-x wrote: post #54

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Thankfully there's livepatching (e.g. https://ubuntu.com/security/livepatch )

6.19 added a new Live Update Orchestrator, which allows significantly more of the system to be retained while doing a kexec / Kernel Handover like transisiton to a new kernel too. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Live-Update-LUO https://lwn.net/Articles/1033364/ Systemd added support in recent 2.61. Theres also now ways to have user stores, that survive across switches. https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-2…

Was hoping this would be mentioned. This version of functionality will probably be more universally accessible to all configurations as compared to the soft reboot released in 254:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/releases/tag/v254

Soft rebooting was even more exciting for me, but I wasn't able to get it to work on my bluebuild based system (customized universal blue). I haven't tried it in a while though.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by filoeleven »

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

Huh, interesting. I wanted to see how to enable this on iPhone, and the answer is that it’s built into iOS 18+ and will happen automatically after 3 days of no usage.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by bArray »

I only shutdown when absolutely necessary, i.e. the system becomes unstable and crashes. Otherwise all of my machines have 100% uptime. This is for a few reasons:

1. Some tools take time to get setup in the way that they were originally setup. I mentally want everything to remain where I left it. I'm usually working on 5+ projects at a time, it's already enough mental tax to have to context switch, let alone to have to go find all the resources I need to be productive again.

2. I'm forced to use Ubuntu, and it is constantly updating stuff and making it crash. Every time I reboot it's a gamble as to whether something I previously used works again properly. Maybe 1 in 100 boots, the entire system doesn't come back properly.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by xeonax »

My work machine (windows) has an uptime of 18 days. But I hibernate it daily. Hibernate in windows os is wonderful thing. Sadly Apple doesn't have something similar. My apple machine (Mac Studio) shuts down everyday. Since it doesn't have hibernation feature.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by wpm »

xeonax wrote: post #366

My work machine (windows) has an uptime of 18 days. But I hibernate it daily. Hibernate in windows os is wonderful thing. Sadly Apple doesn't have something similar. My apple machine (Mac Studio) shuts down everyday. Since it doesn't have hibernation feature.

You might want to take a look at the output of `man pmset` in a Terminal. macOS absolutely has hibernate, it just isn't exposed in the GUI.

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by awakeasleep »

darkstar_16 wrote: post #351
itake wrote: post #324

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> 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.

During the compensation calibration meetings, there is no boss in the world that would be able to argue anything to your benefit

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by icedchai »

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…

I know several developers that have been plagued by ZScaler and similar security tools. It takes weeks to get these issues resolved. Absolutely insane. Inevitably they wind up doing work from their personal laptops...

One guy I was working with was working on an AWS project. He couldn't access part of the AWS console because it was prohibited by ZScaler... Open a ticket, wait...

Re: Have you restarted your computer this week?

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Post by raxxorraxor »

loloquwowndueo wrote: post #179
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.

I mean linux boxes sometimes needed a lot of time to boot before SSDs became available. Today I reboot the system if I don't know the particular name of some systemd service I need to restart. So just restart everything!

To be honest, I would recommend doing that from time to time even on linux boxes. Not because the system becomes unstable, just to check if all your services come up as expected. For the case that you really do need to do a reboot at some point.

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