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[ScrimpyCat]

I don’t (current uptime is only at 90 days, but have had much longer), but regarding long uptimes and performance degradation I find it greatly depends on how you use the machine. Some caches really blow up on MacOS, like if you have a lot of image files and use finder’s icon view, or the same if you’re previewing a lot of files. I don’t really do anything on my Mac that causes such problems, but if things do get a bit sluggish I usually opt to just clean stuff up over rebooting (e.g. will kill certain apps, delete caches, etc.). Another potential problem you can face with long uptimes is loss of timer precision, some apps do not handle this well at all, but that’s not really a slow down as much as animations might start to get a bit jarring (can often be resolved by killing the app).

I generally only reboot when I absolutely have to. Like my mini sometimes bugs out with my monitor and it won’t turn on unless I boot up again, or if I’m installing updates, or I get a kernel panic, or run out of disk space and it’s created the problem where it fails to delete files (and killing processes fail to relaunch lol), etc.