I have been going strong for 34 days and 5 hours.
You can check by running inxi in the command line or checking the CPU in Mission Center
mines off as we speak. I always turn it off at night.
Inxi? Mission center? What are those things?
Just run uptime like a normal person.
Mine is off at the moment.
like 8 hours
I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn’t bother me
up 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutesuptime 18:58 up 145 days, 4:57, 1 users, load averages: 6.19 4.70 5.30i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.
Most people use sleep or hibernate, still uses very little power (none in hibernate) but you don’t have to open all your stuff every time.
Even with the power of ssds?
Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol
Mine boots in 35s, according to
systemd-analyze critical-chainwith 4 of those seconds attributed to me typing in my password.I’m astounded anyone would leave their machine on overnight.
(At the same time, I’m quite happy to leave my phone in light sleep mode overnight with airplane mode on, so I clearly have some double-standards here)
Y’all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?
because I can KVM from one computer to another in under 1 second and I dont feel like adding 14 to that. Plus Folding@Home.
Eh, like that’s fair its personal preference but the energy waste of just having your PC idle is just weird to me. (Folding@home is totally reasonable)
Those proteins and RNAs are now the domain of deep learning, thankyouverymuch! Pull the plug!
With several comments now showing surprise about this, is sleep mode or hibernation not common knowledge?? Windows and every Linux distro I’ve tried has sleep mode enabled by default.
I wouldn’t, and I don’t think most people would, consider being in hibernation mode or sleep mode as “on”. Sure, it will add to your uptime, but like its a demonstrably different power state.
Because they’re processing data all the time? They’re doing work?
Mm, fair if you are running some task while you’re not “actively” using the PC. Although given the general sentiment of people in the replies, the leading reason is “I’m lazy” or “its convenient”.
I turn it off every night when I’m done. It boots quickly and I mostly just use it for the web browser and steam.
My work computer (Mac) I put to sleep because I don’t always want to open all the terminals and IDE and such every time.
I know right I do the same but for my home pc it’s easier to get into the groove when it’s all in front of you in 3 seconds
Uptime: 9 days, 13 hours, 36 minsI made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.
I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I’m not using it.
My graphic driver’s get corrupted when my computer goes to sleep
This would be me, except the wife says it’s “wasting energy.” And rather than argue with her I’ve decided that in an effort for the dream of “happy wife, happy life” I’ll just deal with sub 1min boot time
You might be able to turn off sleep indication (nlinking power led) in bios btw:)
…sunovabetch…I literally just facepalmed. Feel dumb for not having even considered looking into if I could do that. Well…guess papa has a weekend project…
It’s like a daedra, it’s been on, has always been on, and will be on forever
Kstuff but on the desktop. Am I right? Either that or SSI the desktop so I can shunt processes over for the patch run and not have to close sessions.
0 hours.
It is currently off because I don’t leave it running overnight when I am not using it.
It’s off right now.
Also, inxi? Better use
uptime, that command is actually available on all systems and literally exists to check uptime.uptime -pfor a human-readable format. Here’s mine on my Hetzner VPS:
root@snapshot-199288474-ubuntu-16gb-hel1-1:~# uptime -p up 8 weeks, 6 days, 8 minutes
