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Running "shutdown" on remote hosts isn't something I have ever needed to do routinely. Is this for ephemeral dev boxes? Does shutdown suspend billing on AWS/cl
by tln 2y ago
Running "shutdown" on remote hosts isn't something I have ever needed to do routinely.
Is this for ephemeral dev boxes? Does shutdown suspend billing on AWS/cloud type hosts?
- frizlab 2y agoThis for the case where you think you type it locally but are actually typing it remotely. But I’d personally never type this locally so this use case is not convincing at all for me.
- voidUpdate 2y agoI have a laptop that just runs a bare ubuntu terminal, no DE, and I've accidentally shut down a home server before when I tried to shut down the laptop. Quite annoying, since I was away from home at the time
- hk__2 2y agoWhy do you shut your laptop down instead of just closing the lid?
- yonatan8070 2y agoMany laptops have terrible power usage during sleep, so if you just close the laptop and throw it in your bag, you'll open it tomorow with 30% less battery
- voidUpdate 2y agoBecause the battery is absolutely knackered
- jean_dupont 2y agoThis! Another use case: I use it on nixos-rebuild to update the system, when I don't want to rebuild from tiny hosts but rather from a powerfull machine and then send binaries,because it would take to much time to compile otherwise.
- jean_dupont 2y agoBoulette isn't only for safeguarding "shutdown", it is for safeguarding what needs to be. This is to prevent yourself from some harmeful reflexes. I my case, I use atuin a lot and automatically retype long commands and sometimes as root. The regularity of this actions tend to lower my attention, but the fact that many users depend on what I do on big machines and with lots of priviledges isn't less true. Danger comes from getting used to it.