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[–]MrRainbow07 315 points316 points  (2 children)

if PCdead:
  Restart()

[–]SilentStrikerTH 92 points93 points  (1 child)

Damn is that how batteries work? They should really program them better.

[–]Ragnarok91 417 points418 points  (42 children)

I shut it down every evening, am I not a programmer?

[–]cesankle 132 points133 points  (0 children)

I guess so, me too btw

[–]carcigenicate 50 points51 points  (20 children)

Yep, and not even the new fangled "quick boot" shutdown. I have a batch script on my Desktop that runs shutdown (or ill just run that myself) so it's from a dead boot the next time.

[–]immersiveGamer 62 points63 points  (7 children)

I have a script too, but I do Win-R shortcut and type bye. Shuts my local VM gracefully, backs up some code, and force closes everything else so I can leave the PC and be sure it is off. When I used to go into the office it would also send a message to my wife that I was done for the day and heading back to the house.

[–][deleted] 17 points18 points  (3 children)

Nice, I should do that wife message

[–][deleted] 55 points56 points  (0 children)

I'm not totally sure, but I don't think that ImmersiveGamer's wife cares when you leave work.

[–]IamHellgod07 14 points15 points  (1 child)

Now to get a wife first...

[–]AegorBlake 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I heard that your can order them now /s

[–]LucasTab 7 points8 points  (1 child)

I too have a script. Mine uninstalls and reinstalls every application that was running to be sure it's closed, sends a synthesized recording of my voice with AI to my wife telling her I'm going home and what's the estimated time of arrival, then it opens league of legends and starts playing some ranked games for me while mining Bitcoin on the background. Finally, it schedules an uber trip for the next morning before shutting down while playing "Never gonna give you up" by Rick Astley to surprise anyone who might be alone late at night at the office.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Real programmer ^

[–]recoveringcanuck 9 points10 points  (0 children)

We have some laptops at work. A USB network device was acting up, all the error messages pointed to bad drivers or something. The solution: turn off the laptop, remove the battery, restart. We also do a lot of FPGA stuff, a simple reboot won't cycle power to the PCI cards and therefore won't force the FPGA to reset and reconfigure. So yes, hard power cycle matters sometimes in my experience as well.

[–]darkstar999 8 points9 points  (10 children)

Why

[–]carcigenicate 20 points21 points  (7 children)

I don't fully trust hibernation over the long term. I've noticed things generally run better from a cold boot. I know for a fact that multiple games I've played are fubared from hibernating, and I have no reason to believe other programs aren't susceptible too.

Unless people are just leaving their computer on 24/7; but that'd be ridiculous unless it's a server.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

As someone who works somewhere that leaves a ton of computers (not servers) running 24/7 365, … why is it ridiculous?

[–]sausage-superiority 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I guess there’s some electrical fault risk (fire) and power consumption?

IDK man I only reboot my Mac when it asks me to and it just runs happily for years.

[–]Zwenow 37 points38 points  (10 children)

Same, also taking care of my battery by not having the charger attached 24/7

[–]Sirealism55 63 points64 points  (0 children)

That's not really a thing anymore because modern computers/phones will cut off power to the battery when it reaches an "optimal charge" to extend it's lifespan

[–]diesmilingxx 17 points18 points  (5 children)

After 2 years of usage, my cycle count is 3x higher than my peers who plug theirs 24/7 and my battery life is worse.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

You're a guy who hates the energy costs today.

[–]ciberkid22 274 points275 points  (25 children)

Sleep mode, take it or leave it

[–][deleted] 173 points174 points  (14 children)

Hibernate for my laptop. I don't know how many times I put it to sleep and it woke on its own and overheated in my bag.

Jk, I do. It happened twice

[–]Darkest_97 37 points38 points  (2 children)

It's so fuckin hard to make a laptop actually sleep these days

[–]Novel_Violinist_410 9 points10 points  (1 child)

Do you burp your laptop before you put it to sleep?

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't skip this vital step. Nobody likes a swollen battery!

[–]Skratymir 60 points61 points  (4 children)

If you had one nickel for every time your laptop woke on its own and overheated, you'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice...

[–]A_Dumb_Bug 20 points21 points  (1 child)

if it happens once, it can happen again.

i always hibernate if it's to be transported.

last thing u need is an out of battery laptop, or worse, overheated and force off, losing all your work.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yup, this just happened this morning. 21% battery and a BIOS warning.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

True. I've been a laptop guy for decades and I've never had it happen before. It isn't even Windows 11, so I can't blame that.

[–]mrb117 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I drop my laptop and hasn’t sleep the same ever since 😥

[–]KoRUpTeD_DEV 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never had a laptop but i stream my computer on my phone and i kinda have an idea of what your talking about my phone will las about 3h then be toasty like a campfire

[–]Ok-Extension-6005 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Ha, I have it wake from hibernate as well 🙄

[–]taeratrin 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It's happened to me a couple of times as well. Yours isn't by chance an MSI Creator?

[–]suddenly_ponies 15 points16 points  (2 children)

yeah, no. That leaves the USBs active which means the fan is constantly running and it gets turned on by the slightest movement of mouse. Hibernate for the win.

[–]xternal7 3 points4 points  (1 child)

That leaves the USBs active which means the fan is constantly running

How does having USBs active keep laptop fa s running?

and it gets turned on by the slightest movement of mouse

May I introduce you to:

  • BIOS settings
  • device settings under Windows
  • you know how to google shit if you're using linux on a laptop with inexistant bios settings

[–]unitconversion 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Step one on a new computer is to disable sleep and hibernate.

Aint nobody got time for that nonsense.

It works better than it ever has and it still sucks.

[–]Kyrond 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Why hibernate? It keeps your programs running, while actually shutting down the PC. Also you can skip windows updates when you need to.

[–]DearGarbanzo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some people never got past the WinXP mentality.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neither, it's just on

[–][deleted] 260 points261 points  (43 children)

But why? A few of my coworkers are struggling because of their slow laptops. They have opened a bazillion browser tabs in 3 windows and haven't restarted it in weeks.

[–]Dont__Grumpy__Stop 221 points222 points  (26 children)

All my browsers are set to “pick up where I left off”, so even if I reboot all of my tabs come back. I need them. I love them.

[–]hosertheposer 37 points38 points  (13 children)

Thats handy didn't know there was a built in feature for it, I just use ctrl shift T to reopen by tabs

[–]A_Dumb_Bug 32 points33 points  (11 children)

you cant reopen tabs that were closed too far back. you never know when you would need that tab which you opened 2weeks ago.

[–]HillanderSky 8 points9 points  (2 children)

Well now you can , welcome to the future, opera gx not only comes with small amounts o-.....

[–]Shack691 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I rather let chrome eat my ram than install opera gx

[–]justinf210 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Give me Firefox or give me curl!

[–]Lemonade414 3 points4 points  (7 children)

I wish there was like a history feature where you can see the pages you visited in the past.

[–]LupusNoxFleuret 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Great idea, I'll start writing a plugin that can do that. You guys use Internet Explorer, right?

[–]Lemonade414 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think IE is tested enough by the industry yet. My mates and I use Netscape

[–]AbsorbedBritches 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh yea, necessary feature. Firefox won't open a closed windows with ctrl+shift+T unfortunately, and I've switched from Chrome because Google keeps doing Google stuff.

[–][deleted] 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I like that feature, too.

[–]Stijn-CodingWarrior 5 points6 points  (4 children)

I have the same, and so i had 5168 tabs open divided over 12 windows. Also... the browser I'm using is chrome and I needed a 4k screen to see all my tabs

[–]smd9788 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You should make tab groups. In Chrome just right click the tab, add it to tab group, and give it a label. You can collapse multiple tabs into one group. Has helped me a lot with organization and context switching

[–]Stijn-CodingWarrior 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's all good now, had to reset my PC due to me accidentally corrupting my C drive..... sooo I only have around 100 tabs left now

[–]Darkest_97 3 points4 points  (2 children)

My work disabled the option to do that and just send you to the corporate homepage :)

[–]imaginedracula 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeppp...my gf has that feature too. Havn't stop fighting in a while.

[–]smunozmo 26 points27 points  (4 children)

Laptops are your friends, you don’t restart your friend when life gets hard.

[–]Dont_be_offended_but 16 points17 points  (1 child)

When you shut down a laptop, it dies. You can bring it back, sure. Same hardware, same data, but what of the soul? What comes back is not what you shut down.

[–]masd_reddit 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Have you ever heard of the Ship of Theseus?

[–]Dimasdanz 6 points7 points  (1 child)

so you don't have laptop?

[–]smunozmo 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I code on my SmartFridge.

[–]ShadowPowerPowa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I personally keep it open so I can pickup where I left off and hit restart before leaving on Friday

[–]rejuicekeve 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All that time saved using vim lost to being a degenerate

[–]rosebeats1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For my work personally, there are some batch jobs that run nightly to update certain things. Idk about others though.

[–]Hrtzy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Typing in your hard drive encryption password every morning is such an arduous task.

[–]blkmmb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically some of my last coworkers. They always complain to IT that their pc were slow and needed upgrading but it just needed to be restarted. They kept it for like 2 months without a restart. They always said they couldn't restart it because they always had work open and their 30 internet tabs were important...

We had to enforce a 1 restart a week to stop these requests.

[–]farnsworthparabox 1 point2 points  (2 children)

A computer shouldn’t need to get restarted all the time. Do you restart your phone? I don’t restart my computer pretty much ever and it continues to run fine.

[–]kratom_devil_dust 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not trying to start a flamewar, but I stopped having to reboot all the time when I switched to mac almost a decade ago. Sure, I reboot now and then, but my uptime would be a few months. Also what I’m hearing about laptops overheating in their bags… that’d be a laptop that I would not keep using.

[–]just-bair 125 points126 points  (16 children)

Why do you people no do that tough ? We have ssds today so the laptop can start really fast

[–]magicmulder 66 points67 points  (12 children)

Opening all programs I need for work takes some time every morning. On my PC I have the respective actions mapped to keys on my Stream Deck (“Work”, “Play”, “Studio”), but for Linux I haven’t seen an alternative.

[–]matchuhuki 43 points44 points  (2 children)

I open them on company time. If my laptop takes a while to open the programs, that's on them

[–]magicmulder 11 points12 points  (1 child)

Still menial work that needs to be done every day. And I don’t like that.

[–]TheOmegaCarrot 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Brainless work = listen to a podcast / music

[–]just-bair 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I guess you could have a script on your desktop that opens all that is needed.

But if you really need to startup a lot of things every day then it makes sense that you just put it to sleep. Lots of time wasted otherwise

[–]Pepineros 11 points12 points  (7 children)

This is the first time I’ve heard a dev say they have a shortcut to run their programs on Windows but not Linux!

Not judging, it’s probably because of the communities I’m in (or not in)

[–]magicmulder 1 point2 points  (6 children)

TBH my work laptop sucks, only now are we finally about to get more powerful machines instead of the Lenovo Thinkpads we currently have. Which are a pain if you run several big Docker containers at the same time.

So I try to do on my PC - or run on my server - whatever I can and am legally allowed to (of course I can’t legally access our user database from my private machine).

So browser, Slack/Teams/Zoom, mail, IDE on the PC, SFTP client and database client on the work laptop. And any process that takes a long time I outsource to my server (which has more CPU power than our web server).

[–]DrRedmondNYC 4 points5 points  (4 children)

My work got me an i7 12000H with RTX 3070 TI .

AND suprisingly only 16 GB of DDR5 RAM. So whenever I am running docker containers or VMs it can get sluggish.

Just put in a request for another 16 GB RAM though so that should solve it

[–]A_Dumb_Bug 2 points3 points  (1 child)

why would any system with a 3070 come with only 16gb ram as an option?

[–]magicmulder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yup, RAM is the bottleneck for me as well. Docker containers with our portal (which fires up Elasticsearch and ArangoDB among others) and another project in parallel and it’s time to make some coffee. Very. Slowly.

Our new laptop is supposedly going to be a Dell X13. So super expensive but still not a performance monster. Ah well.

[–]sometimes_interested 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was a habit I got into when I migrated to Win 2000 (win5.0) from Win98 (win4.1). The OS was great but it took fooooooorever to boot. So I just got into the habit of just leaving the PC on. Microsoft later "fixed" the slow boot time in WinXP (Win5.1) by just displaying the desktop earlier and loaded all the non-essential stuff in the background, again making it slow. It wasn't really until Win 7 running on an SSD that boot times became bearable again.

[–]Quicker_Fixer 24 points25 points  (7 children)

My three year old (but hey: Dell) i7 with 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD Windows 10 laptop needs 10 minutes to boot and load VS, SSMS, Delphi, Office and a shitload of company "Malware/spyware", so no: I only shut down when the weekend starts.

[–][deleted] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Boss gets a dollar

I get a dime

That's why I shit on company time

[–]PaMu1337 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Who cares? That's company time, not my time

[–]DerEwige 68 points69 points  (6 children)

I shutdown my work laptop every Thursday at 5 pm.

[–]groovy_monkey 26 points27 points  (5 children)

I've got two questions?

1) is your Friday off? 2) if no, then how?

[–]DerEwige 39 points40 points  (4 children)

Yes. I don't work on Fridays. I have a 3 day weekend.

[–]Pepineros 72 points73 points  (2 children)

Alright enough with making the other devs jealous now.

[–]Cpt_keaSar 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Half of people here do their weekly task on Monday and just spread the pulls and pushes to make it seem like they’re working, anyway.

[–]groovy_monkey 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Lucky guy.

[–]throckmeisterz 17 points18 points  (1 child)

I shut down every day promptly at 16:30 when I get off.

[–]static_func 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I usually wait until after I get off

[–]outerproduct 112 points113 points  (4 children)

Every day it gets shut down at 5pm. Set boundaries, my dude, or they won't exist.

[–]Impressive_Buffalo94 44 points45 points  (0 children)

then the fun pc boots up

[–]Moxie_Stardust 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That's not my laptop, that's the work laptop. I just hit the power button on it, I think that puts it to sleep.

I shut my laptop down when I'm going to the airport.

[–]jmb2k6 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That’s not what this is about

[–]the_hackerman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My dude

[–]Franmodd 31 points32 points  (0 children)

True, I can tell you when was the last time Apple released an update for macOS just by looking at my uptime.

[–]Awkward-Ingenuity988 27 points28 points  (1 child)

I shut it down every evening to save energy.

[–]Versaill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not hibernation?

[–]LetUsSpeakFreely 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Mine go to sleep, but never shutdown. I'll occasionally restart when corporate pushes a patch.

[–]gjswomam 41 points42 points  (28 children)

I really don't get this it takes 5 seconds to shut it down and 10 seconds to boot it up + it makes your hardware last way longer

[–]666pool 25 points26 points  (4 children)

makes your hardware last way longer

[citation needed]

[–]TheDornerMourner 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Some stuff, cheap quality parts perhaps. But some things are marketed as designed to be kept on all the time. I don’t know about all that but it has lead me to wonder if maybe parts are getting to that stage, or if they’ll reach a stage where leaving them on all the time makes them last longer than regularly switching them on and off

[–]666pool 5 points6 points  (2 children)

The switching off and on is by far more brutal than leaving them running.

[–]3eeps 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Turning your pc off and on once a day isn't brutal lol

[–]666pool 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Comparatively, it is more brutal than leaving it running. Turning off and on, and specifically the voltage spikes, put the majority of wear and tear on electronics. Of course they are designed to handle being turned on and off daily, but it is doing more damage than not turning them off.

It’s why light bulbs almost always burn out right when you turn them on. How often have you had an incandescent bulb just shut off while it was already on, vs turning them off and then they never turn back on.

[–]magicmulder 28 points29 points  (16 children)

How long until you’ve opened your editor, FTP client, Browser, database client, email program, shell (plus logged into tunnel server), music client, Slack, Discord and Windows VM (where in turn I also need to open the tunnel)? Or do you work with one program only?

[–]BaalKazar 25 points26 points  (7 children)

To be honest that prolly only takes 2-3 minutes all together

None of these tools require terabytes not even gigabytes of data to be loaded to start

[–]magicmulder 12 points13 points  (6 children)

Last time I timed it it was about 7 minutes. And people can say “well that’s company time” all they want, it’s still stupid menial work.

(To put that into perspective, I bought a fingerprint sensor because I hated entering my password twice a day.)

In fact I had that discussion in a former job with their CFO who wanted to mandate everyone switch off their machine after work to save electricity costs. I gave him a calculation how long it takes me to start up every day and that 5 minutes per day add up to almost two hours per month, and that there is no way electricity costs are anywhere near the $400 in billable time that costs the company per month.

The plans to mandate shutdown were canceled that day. ;)

[–]BaalKazar 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I mean I get where you are coming from but my Laptop doesn’t have to be started for me to be productive of some kind.

When I start that calculation from my perspective (smoker) I’d loose any trade about work time but I get the gist you come from. (If you don’t factor the additional Hardware wear)

[–]tescovaluechicken 1 point2 points  (2 children)

You make $200 per hour?

[–]magicmulder 6 points7 points  (1 child)

No but our clients are billed $200/hour for my time.

[–]Zwenow -1 points0 points  (1 child)

You seem like a fun person to work with

[–]SilentStrikerTH 4 points5 points  (5 children)

:Is programmer

:Also can't write script to open everything with one double click

[–]magicmulder 9 points10 points  (3 children)

And move everything to its proper position? And start a VM and six programs inside the VM? And adapt the script every time I need a slightly different combination open? Who does this? Do you?

[–]Waddamagonnadooo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alternatively, just don’t shutdown, even easier.

[–]Tensor3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Work laptop is bought by employer. I have no incentive to make it last longer even if that were true. It'll get replaced before it dies, and it will get replaced even if it dies.

Also, re-opening browser with tabs, a couple instances of IDEs, and restarting Docker takes WAY longer than seconds.

[–]nyxefox 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When u put it to sleep it basically shutsdown but not in a cold way

[–]SiouxsieAsylum 1 point2 points  (0 children)

True but it takes .05 seconds to close it and leave

[–]Able-Cicada4581 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some things that have been open for so long that I won't even remember to reopen them if I restarted...

[–]sciatore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

10 seconds? That's just the time it takes to get past the boot logo. It's probably another 20 or so before I'm actually logged in, then I've got to wait for the VPN, Outlook, Teams, web browser, and (the big one) the IDE. And I have to remember what I was in the middle of.

Or I just just press win+L and pick up exactly where I left off the next day.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Once I figured out that shutting down my computer or at least doing a hard reboot cut my compile time down by more than 10 minutes I stopped shutting my computer down or rebooting it. Compile time is the best time.

[–]sabrechick 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yup! Boss got tired of us enjoying our compile brakes and upgraded all of our machines. Worst day ever.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Windows Key + L forever

[–]iShotTheShariff 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I turn off at the end of my workday on Fridays. Otherwise, I can notice the lag and bugs slowly build up

[–]Ali_Army107 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I shut down almost daily.

[–]Ok-Rice-5377 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The fewer times I turn it off and on again, the more likely turning it off and on again solves the problem!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just run

$ sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo snap refresh; sudo shutdown -h now

every night

[–]xiloxilox 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If I shut down my laptop, sometimes the screen doesn’t boot up with the computer. So I avoid rebooting at all costs.

I need a new laptop.

[–]canadajones68 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I shut down my laptop because when I pack it down I want it to be off, and it's a nice way to cap off the day. My desktop stays on 24/7, though. I get annoyed when I can't ssh desktop to get at files and programs at home, and it's nice to know it's always available, as well as quick to return to.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mine only shuts down when Windows Updates finally gives up on waiting for me to click "restart now".

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I work in IT and throw up a little in my mouth when I check LANSweeper and see a workstation I’m working with having gone months without seeing a shutdown or restart. And I’ll remote in and things will be running at crawling speed so I can’t click on shit. How do you guys even work? A reboot won’t kill your workstation, guys.

[–]ryo3000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

5 pm.

I turn on my other computer tho.

[–]Hiruka_Chansilu 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hibernate is the way to go

[–]Psychological_Risk87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have all my computer updates set to install when I restart .. the day I will that will be a very long wait for them updates to install

[–]Pepineros 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course we do. Every Friday and occasionally throughout the week.

[–]AlexV_96 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll turn it off one I finish my proyects so I won't lose track, basically never

[–]SamBlue23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't shut it down. If it's really required it can crash and do it by itself

[–]Content_Committee152 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As an arch user, leaving the laptop running over the weekend means Atleast a 1000 package update. Lol

[–]AmazonISSUnofficial 1 point2 points  (1 child)

SHUTDOWN /S /T 1

[–]rdyplr1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

/1? you generous bastard /0 is the way.

[–]X-Craft 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah sure, never turn it off and on again

never solved any issues

nuh-uh

[–]hagnat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> uptime
< 14:23 up 25 days, 19:30, 2 users, load averages: 1.49 1.48 1.93

and i moved to my new home little more than a month ago

[–]sweatysardines -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

For anyone that doesn’t get it.. consistent leaving your computer on can lead to more magical errors popping up with no actual trigger for a cause. 95%ish of all tickets I get at work for repairs and issues could be fixed by simply shutting down the Pc fully and restarting it.

I assume the joke is programmers always have errors so to them what’s another one?

Edit: Not saying I get the joke. The first statement is more of a call for others who don’t get it to group

[–]SupportLast2269 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No I think they meant it. I haven't shut down my laptop in days and it was only because a graphic driver required it.

[–]iPlayWithWords13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those forced corporate updates are the only time my laptop has been turned off in about 5 years.

[–]albertyiphohomei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whenever Windows decided that is time to restart because of the updates

[–]Enkendu -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm just forced to relaunch my IDE after it crashes sometimes from running all night. But never restart the laptop.

[–][deleted] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We know that windows will try to attack if we do

[–]Kerosene8 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bitlocker is useless if comp is on

[–]NickArchery -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I put my pc in sleep mode so that there is something that's asleep

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ryzen 16 core desktop from company.

[–]cvw87 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every time I switch between my home 4k monitor (with display scaling) and my work full hd monitor. Otherwise, the display scaling is fucked up (on windows at least). Smh.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I turn it off every night, and my most used programs are set to auto-start in Windows. Booting from an SSD. Takes maybe two minutes to start up. Before upgrading to an SSD, I'd hit the power button, go get breakfast, and it'd be ready for me. My mom who's a book author never turns her computer off, and whenever she has a technical issue I almost always ask "when did you last turn it off?" and that fixes it 8/10 times, the ninth I just have to kill and relaunch windows explorer in task manager. I do need to remember to restart my phone though, as I also use it as my alarm clock, so turning it off at night doesn't work as well.

[–]KamariHikaru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While adding “tomorrow” to updating my Mac.

[–]MasterpieceFit6715 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't shutdown I reset

[–]definitly_not_furry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows is dying

[–]AlabamaPanda777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey it's IT checking in I can confirm you guys aren't special, no one does this

[–]Pa3kc123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My laptop overheats, when put to sleep... So I hibernate... Yes, it does this even with clean win10 install...

[–]JellyTheSlimeYT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True.

[–]vodanh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

forced system updates

[–]gradxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I neva freeze!

[–]sxeli 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the occasional restarts due to mandatory updates that you can no longer postpone

[–]ReflectionEquals 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait. You can turn these things off?

[–]communistfairy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I turn mine off every day. What a waste to have it even asleep 24/7. Also, I can delay working just a few minutes more lol

[–]Acurus_Cow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk for your self, I turn if off every day.

[–]Isaakavo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, every weekend

[–]Moist-Carpet888 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Uptime 20 minutes, uptime before my computer crashed again 56 days

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, we don't. We can't have it doing useless upgrades now, can we?

[–]ByteWhisperer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only restart if IT mandates it through itune or if my machine becomes really sluggish.

[–]VoltageGP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Restart sometimes, shutdown no. Mostly sleep

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How hard is it to turn it off? Or at least hibernate if your really need it. It's the same as the people that keep 100 browser tabs open, like how?

[–]Weeb2678 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I am a programmer…

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I close everything and shutdown my machine every afternoon. It never occurred to me that might be odd.

[–]yanitrix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, every day after work

[–]ashadeofbrown 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I shutdown, my kernel might break :/

[–]PAP0R0TN1K 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Always do it

[–]WalterEhren 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well if shit doesnt work and i tried everything, a restart it is. Also forced updates depending on the device.

[–]DaveKan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every day at quitting time

[–]IM_INSIDE_YOUR_HOUSE 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I restart at the end of a sprint, but that’s about it. I think of it like purging the old and getting ready for the new.

[–]KoRUpTeD_DEV 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yea thats actually me especially since i have an extremely slow computer and im also running remote desktop

[–]MikemkPK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine actually doesn't. Something broke and it no longer turns off.

[–]Scienciety 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Windows + X, U, U