Today I learned the inxi command does so much more than I thought. I've only used it to check on my RAM once
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One or two of my computers have been on for about five years. The laptop I use mostly has been on for several months. But I'm a very teched-up person. I've got computers in various forms all over the place. Actually less nowadays compared to many years ago. I don't shut anything down because I've got various services in operation 24/7.
As of today about 10 years not counting the odd driver restart
Mine turned off yesterday for an update.
I reboot mine when I'm bored
I turn mine off to save power when I'm not actively using it. I have a small 65 watt server that stays on all the time. Currently it has been up for 3 months or so.
Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.
I have a drive that's roughly 13 years old, and has around 11 years 80 days of power on time if that says how much my computer is on.
I only restart it when windows updates start fucking with my networking or my audio drives entirely shit the bed.
I had about 300 days of uptime on my server but I did some hardware maintenance recently. I'm back up to like 20 but I need to do more stuff.
I did find a fun "bug" the other day with windows and how it tracks uptime. Since shutting down hibernates the kernel it doesn't treat it as time off. So when I fired up this surface I hadn't used in a long time it had 180 days of uptime.
Only a few days, maybe 12 if I had to guess. Im running with memory overcommit disabled and building a rust project with vscode and Firefox open will hang the kernel eventually. I caved to the kernel's expectations and set up a swap partition but it still dies.
I should say it's been on for probably 2 years straight ignoring reboots
Thanks to Mint's updates... about 10 minutes.
34 days without booting? Are you using a Debian system and don't update often? You should, for security patches at least. I'm on an Arch based system and update every day. Sometimes there are updates that require a reboot, so all services are up to date. My system is often up for a few days, sometimes even for a week.
Small tip, logging out and in will have a semi clean environment without a full boot. That means the uptime won't reset.
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