• Jyek@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      As a professional IT guy, I love to show my users their uptime after they lie to me about how they already rebooted their computer and it still isn’t working right. Yesterday I showed a user her uptime of 152 days which is impressive considering the city she works in has worse average electrical uptime than the state of Texas.

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      I’ve had a year or two. But kernel updates make reboots. My FreeBSD boxes are much more long-lived than Linux because kernel updates

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      3 days ago

      but just curious how long is every one’s uptime on laptop / desktop?

      Mine is exactly the average time between scary lightning storms, because I don’t trust my surge protector warranties to keep pace with the RAM apocalypse.

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      Anything between 5 minutes and 5 days, including those numbers as well. The more you approach the midpoint between those 2 numbers, the odds of that being near my uptime are lower