How long has your PC been on for?

People leave their PC on constantly? I understand leaving servers running but i always turn my PC on in the morning, then off at night once im finished.

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.

Today I learned the inxi command does so much more than I thought. I've only used it to check on my RAM once

My Arch system stays on until a firmware package needs an update. Then i cry and scream bc it's only been a month since the last one. Also I just updated a bunch of those, so my system has not been on long.

It's off at the moment. I turn it off whenever I'm not using it for security reasons, and also just noise reasons so the fan doesn't bother me. It boots relatively quickly so I'm unbothered.

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.

I'm surprised how many people turn their computers off. My desktop uptime is 4 day, but, I do put it to sleep at night (which I think counts towards its uptime).

I will look into hibernating. The reason I don't shut down is because I usually end up with carefully placed windows and lots of ongoing projects all over. Restarting would mean I'd have to start all that up again - assuming I remember what I was doing.

i turn my pc off when im not using it to save power; i thought this was normal.

like 8 hours

I shut it down every day, start up times are fast enough that it doesn't bother me

Y'all it takes like 15 seconds to boot from an SSD why are you leaving your computers on?

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.

Mine is off at the moment.

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 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.

That was my family's email server 5 months ago:

So roughly 2500 days today 🙂

PC != server.

uptime
18:58  up 145 days,  4:57, 1 users, load averages: 6.19 4.70 5.30

Server is rebooted, as needed, for updates. I think it just got a kernel update two weeks ago, so it probably only has ~14 days of uptime.

My desktop and laptop are shut down when not in use. Leaving them on when not in use is pointless.

Never understood obsessions with "uptime". If you have high numbers for uptime, you're a bad sysadmin/maintainer of your hardware unless the appliance is purpose-built to be always up and air gapped.

I only restart for kernel updates. I put my PC to sleep when I'm not using it.

I generally only reboot for stuff like kernel updates.

Usually only as long as I play games. After that, I shut it off. Why?

• I run Bazzite, which updates itself in the background, but needs a restart to complete
• It boots in seconds, because modern hard drives are crazy fast
• The standby-LED is annoying when I sleep

My laptop is usually on for a week, but I restart it from time to time, for the same reasons, and because devices need some sleep too! 😴

Uptime: 9 days, 13 hours, 36 mins

i've been shutting down linux desktops most every day lately, and turning them on only when i want to use one.

up 1 day, 8 hours, 2 minutes

I don't run any servers and leccy is expensive, they go off when I'm done using them!

I made Windows XP run for 40 days using a custom shell. Things got a bit weird, I ran defrag and memory optimization often.

It's like a daedra, it's been on, has always been on, and will be on forever

I've never had a Windows machine that can stay on longer than ~3 days before developing weird behaviour so it's off right now until I get home.

I'm convinced the reason all my drives used to fail is because I would leave the PC on, and only reboot for updates. Otherwise I would just put them to sleep. Three years later, I turn off the PC every night and haven't had a failed drive since.

I cold-boot daily because fucking nvidia 👺

About 90 mins. I shut it down when i finish every and turn it off at the wall (fuskibg standby LEDs). I can go days without booting it back up. I use #LMDE

On any command line you can likely just run a single letter command: w

My laptop gets shut down every night, booted every morning. If I suspend it sometimes spontaneously wakes later, but boot is so fast anyway so it’s fine.

My server gets updated and rebooted weekly. I don’t bother checking CVE bulletins, I just upgrade weekly.

When I had big desktop and all, it was running for days/months. Now, I have a miniPC and I start it up Monday morning and shut if down Friday afternoon.

Uptime: 26d 17h 44m

I always shut it down every night, so usually not much more than 12 hours at best.

I think my desktop has been on the past couple days because I've been too lazy to turn it off because I caught the flu and basically slept the past couple days away.

23m,Short ik.

7 days currently, 30 days on the previous boot. I had to open it up to install extra drives.

BlueEther@BlueEthers-MacBook-Air ~ % uptime
17:18  up 47 days,  6:26, 2 users, load averages: 2.19 2.61 2.56

blueaether@lemmy:~$ uptime
 04:25:37 up 204 days, 19:45,  1 user,  load average: 0.09, 0.15, 0.16

The TV/server has been up for 38 days, I think it got turned off by mistake last month

53 min

Last time it was off was during the summer holidays.

My laptop has been up for 123 days. It gets put in standby when it's not in use. I should probably reboot into a new kernel soon.
My desktop gets shut down at night because it's power hungry.
My server gets shut down about once a year for cleaning and hardware upgrades.

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

I never turn it off it gets an occasional reset when updates need to be installed but that's about it

There was a period where I was testing my laptop's hibernation so I got uptime to around 30 days.

But now, The highest uptime I can reach is around 2-3 days if I forget to turn it off and leave it either plugged in or on a high battery so it lasts until the next day.

My work laptop has been up for 26 days, 17:24. My primary server at home has been online for 42 days, 21:27. Personal laptop - 45 days, 20:51. The primary server of my exocortex has been online and crunching away for 278 days, 19:48.

12 days and 17 hours. As another commenter pointed out, checked with uptime

It depends. Sometimes I shut it down every night. Occasionally, I'll leave it in sleep mode for a few days.

I think the longest uptime I've had on anything I've owned is probably a month or so on a Raspberry Pi 4 server I used to have running with a personal Mediawiki instance (I still have the Pi, but if I ran a server in my dorm, I have the feeling someone might come to bite off my hand).

I have an Nvidia GPU and suspend/resume works about 20% of the time so my PC is shutdown every time I won't use it for a few hours. Don't use my personal computer that much so it doesn't really bother me a lot. My laptop is however long the battery lasts with the lid closed, I don't use it much so most times I pick it up it's dead.

Mine turned off yesterday for an update.

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.

I turn it off every night or if I'm away for many hours, so about 10 minutes right now.

I do have a Raspberry Pi that's been up 12 weeks, 5 days, 19 hours, 59 minutes. I believe there was a planned power outage when it was lasted turned off.

Thanks to Mint's updates... about 10 minutes.

I have all my devices set to reboot once weekly a few hours after daily scheduled updates. I probably don't need to do this, but I do. It's a habit I got in with scheduling router reboots, and then started extending it to other devices. It's nice to have some solid uptime, but I have three unbound DNS servers in sequence so they update and reboot on a staggered schedule so it's like they never go down.

You never know when the odd cosmic ray is gonna hit and flip yer bits.

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.

As of today about 10 years not counting the odd driver restart

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.

55 days, 34 mins

Edit: my Mac mini (the torrent client) is 199 days.

My main PC only stays on for a couple days at a time (on sleep/hibernate when not in use) only because I'm generally too lazy to shut all programs down. I reboot on updates though, which is every couple days.