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> Similarly on uptime, he just turns it on at the start of the season, leaves it running 24/7 and powers down months later. Beautiful. It is beautiful but...

> Similarly on uptime, he just turns it on at the start of the season, leaves it running 24/7 and powers down months later. Beautiful. It is beautiful but... That said a PC running Linux can do this too without any problem. Back when I was solving a long computation on one core, I've had my "workstation" at home (just a regular PC running Debian GNU/Linux) reach months of uptime. Typically a black out (I have no UPS battery) would end the uptime.

rbanffy 5y ago
You probably shouldn’t do this as much because kernel security vulnerabilities will get fixed in the meantime and your wireless router may have been breached making your local networks hostile.
- speed_spread 5y ago
  I make my computer hostile enough that viruses and intruders backoff when they meet it.
  - rbanffy 5y ago
    Same here. Whoever gets past all the layered defenses has earned whatever data they can exfiltrate.
- TacticalCoder 5y ago
  I'm not advocating to do this but anyway there are times at which more than six months goes by without any mandatory kernel vuln fix requiring a reboot. And not all kernel vulnerabilities do affect all setups, especially when the system is used not as a server but simply as a "workstation" (with 0 ports opened or maybe just the SSH one). I was just commenting that modern machines can be very reliable too.
- oblio 5y ago
  Yeah, but then again, wouldn't the equivalent Atari have security issues and require reboots for updates, too? Provided anyone would provide those updates.
  - ubermonkey 5y ago
    Given the lack of connectivity, I imagine the security concerns there are much less serious.
oblio 5y ago
Windows can do the same. My home PCs have been running Windows 7 and Windows 10, I never turn them off and they've probably been rebooted maybe 20 times, several times because of moving house, since 2009.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
  It's been ages since I've used Windows - does it not still force reboots for updates after that much time?
  - oblio 5y ago
    It does force updates but my personal experience has been it's something that happens less than once per month. Maybe even less than once per trimester. It's majorly overblown. And I've definitely not had the "Windows trying to restart while I'm holding a presentation in front of key customers", though, with a billion users anything that can happen, will.
- 127 5y ago
  Windows 10 forces reboots these days to update. It happens relatively often.
  - oblio 5y ago
    It doesn't force them as often as you hear in the press. I would notice because I have various windows open that wouldn't be open on restart.

rbanffy 5y ago

You probably shouldn’t do this as much because kernel security vulnerabilities will get fixed in the meantime and your wireless router may have been breached making your local networks hostile.

speed_spread 5y ago
I make my computer hostile enough that viruses and intruders backoff when they meet it.
- rbanffy 5y ago
  Same here. Whoever gets past all the layered defenses has earned whatever data they can exfiltrate.
TacticalCoder 5y ago
I'm not advocating to do this but anyway there are times at which more than six months goes by without any mandatory kernel vuln fix requiring a reboot. And not all kernel vulnerabilities do affect all setups, especially when the system is used not as a server but simply as a "workstation" (with 0 ports opened or maybe just the SSH one). I was just commenting that modern machines can be very reliable too.
oblio 5y ago
Yeah, but then again, wouldn't the equivalent Atari have security issues and require reboots for updates, too? Provided anyone would provide those updates.
- ubermonkey 5y ago
  Given the lack of connectivity, I imagine the security concerns there are much less serious.

oblio 5y ago

Windows can do the same. My home PCs have been running Windows 7 and Windows 10, I never turn them off and they've probably been rebooted maybe 20 times, several times because of moving house, since 2009.

yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago
It's been ages since I've used Windows - does it not still force reboots for updates after that much time?
- oblio 5y ago
  It does force updates but my personal experience has been it's something that happens less than once per month. Maybe even less than once per trimester. It's majorly overblown. And I've definitely not had the "Windows trying to restart while I'm holding a presentation in front of key customers", though, with a billion users anything that can happen, will.
127 5y ago
Windows 10 forces reboots these days to update. It happens relatively often.
- oblio 5y ago
  It doesn't force them as often as you hear in the press. I would notice because I have various windows open that wouldn't be open on restart.