Spyke
feddit.org

First of all, our computers are always on. Those kernels don't compile themselves, three times a day. Secondarily we could, at least, turn our machines on without having to install a dozen of updates before having to reboot again.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

I knew there had to be a different reason for global warming. Linux users don't turn off their computers, thats why!

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If systems that run Linux were to power down, that's it for almost all of the internet.

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espentanreply
lemmy.world

If people could just be kind and turn off the server when they leave.

If you close a tab, get a prompt; "it looks like you're leaving this website, would you like to power down the server(s)?"

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groetreply
feddit.org

And all websites use wake-on-lan over the internet so the first person every day just starts the server and the last one turns off the lights!

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That's kinda how serverless works. You rent cpu time from a bigger cloud vendor and only spin up your servers when there is traffic.

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Jeremywardreply
lemmy.world

My Ubuntu server has about 3 years of uptime right now, I don't get this mémé

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B-TR3Ereply
feddit.org

Ubuntu doesn't count. It's not a real Linux.

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B-TR3Ereply
feddit.org

No, heretic. I'm more the orthodox kind of defender of the faith.

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B-TR3Ereply
feddit.org

Good one. I didn't even know there was such a thing.

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B-TR3Ereply
feddit.org

Right. Debian is the Roman Catholicism among the Linuces.

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lemmy.world

No, it’s not. This isn’t anti jokes are funny now. People are really this bored I guess.

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I think this is making fun of the memes where it shows linux users going to (exaggerated) extremes to achieve something that is easy on Windows/other OS.

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devfuuureply
lemmy.world

sleep and hibernate work fine on linux. I remember the olden days like 15 years ago where nothing of it worked. contrary to the stupid macos that was forced onto me which sleep means nothing and just keeps draining my bluetooth headphones battery anyway instead of turning off when I tell it to.

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ftbdreply
feddit.org

I still have issues on two separate machines. One won't hibernate sometimes, I suspect the nvidia card. The other has a new-ish ethernet card, which doesn't work after waking from hibernation (unless I reload the kernel module)

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iopqreply
lemmy.world

What's the point of hibernation? You have so much stuff open in some exact state you can't just turn off the computer?

It takes less time for me to boot fresh than to resume from hibernation (32GB of RAM)

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Yes. I leave my laptop running in the office overnight, and at the end of the day I have a bunch of note documents, papers, code editors, and corresponding plots open and arranged among multiple monitors. It's extremely annoying to re-do this setup the next day, so I leave it running. If hibernation worked reliably, I could turn the machine off at the end of the day.

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Yeah, I have another one that has a stupid nvidia card that crashes when trying to hibernate sometimes. But that's nvidia fault, it was not something I would buy, was also forced upon me by another work place. At least it's consistent since many times it just crashes on boot up too and needs to be forced reboot up to 10 times sometimes.

Nvidia should burn in hell.

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Every few updates my Pop_OS! suspend would break (sleep and not wake, or sleep and wake immediately). I could never figure it out beyond knowing NVIDIA was the source. Worked around it by swapping my graphics card to a comparable AMD card-- now my machine sleeps like a baby.

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Absolutely not. Nvidia GPUs and some network cards can and will break sleep on Linux. It's currently very much broken on my machine and I stopped trying to fix it. Up until a few days ago the PC failed to properly power down to a sleep state and would leave a whole bunch of things powered up, like the monitor and the fans and the lights. Now it's even worse. On top of all that, the computer goes right back into sleep seconds after it wakes up. Extremely annoying.

I use arch btw.

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1984reply
lemmy.today

It was mostly because of Nvidia drivers. So many Linux issues is just Nvidia related.

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FishFacereply
lemmy.world

Bs, I have had so many sleep issues on laptops without Nvidia graphics cards.

The most recent issue I had was something inhibiting sleep that I couldn't disable.

Before that it was being unable to decrypt the hibernate data on an encrypted disk.

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Despite OP insisting otherwise, I'm gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don't have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that's why this joke went over my head.

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talreply
olio.cafe

You'd still need to turn it on if it's in hibernate. Well, you might not need to push the power button, might have a laptop that can, while off, key off the lid switch. But the laptop's still off when it's hibernated.

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dadarobotreply
lemmy.sdf.org

my desktop and server get rebooted about once a month unless they get a new kernel or are pissing me off.

my laptop is dead about 50% of the time i turn it on.

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lemmy.world

But by the time the lid is up to reach the power button, it's already out of sleep and operational…

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Alaknárreply
sopuli.xyz

Lucky you! Mine just crashes when I try to enter Sleep mode leaving both screens on and frozen, and nothing at all working.

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olenkoVDreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Maybe try the kernel parameter amd_iommu=off if you have an AMD CPU (and you're talking about Linux and not Windows). I had the same problem and this fixed it for me.

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Hey, thanks! Unfortunately, I'm a very new Linux user (190 days according to fish), so I've no idea how or where I would set that parameter.

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VitoRoblesreply
lemmy.today

I remember when windows used to brag about incredibly fast boot times.

Now, my 5 yo gaming PC takes about 30 seconds to wake up to the password screen. While my Linux laptop takes 15 seconds to go from cold start to desktop.

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My 10yo gaming PC is probably "faster" to boot because it is set up to auto logon without password promt so it boots straight to desktop without any interruptions while my Linux laptop has pre-boot-authentication and then normal login. But between these two password promts is basically no time at all

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Sustolicreply
lemmy.world

For me I can reach the windows desktop in around 14 or 15 seconds (auto login), for most people the biggest bottleneck is a slow bios.

Linux and windows normally have very similar boot times at least on my hardware.

5600X

B550 AORUS ELITE

Intel 660p

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@Sustolic @VitoRobles 15 years ago initng in linuxmint was doing magic; booting system to gnome2 desktop in 3 seconds from grub. On PCs with intel motherboard this was about 4 seconds from poweron. And moreover, this was on HDD.
Now all systems are bloated and cannot boot in 3 seconds even on SSD

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Meanwhile, my work Windows laptop is significantly slower to wake up now as I'm forced to hibernate it thanks to them removing S3 sleep in favor of the modern standby shit.

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lemmy.ca

Yeah, if I'm not using the computer I turn it off because why would I be wasting electricity? So it's the same for windows or linux to me. You do need to reboot your computer sometimes anyway. For linux it's when you update the kernel. For windows you just have to reboot for similar reasons or after you've spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why something isn't working and then in desperation "try turning it off and turning it back on again". Better to just turn it off when you're done using it and turn it on when you need it again and many of those issues are avoided completely.

So I turn off my computer when I'm not using it and I save power AND so the computer doesn't get glitchy. It doesn't take much time for the computer to boot up, so there's not much reason to not just turn it off when I'm not using it.

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It doesn't really do a lot for most people since you just skip UEFI initialization, which yeah does save a lot of time but you still need to restart all your processes

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The problem is that by the time I have said that to them it's already to desktop. I cursed Myself by having an operating system that is fast and efficient and I also did not install 18 different applications that open at boot. So now I just feel left out from the group not waiting for my computer to finish booting :(

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You shouldn't drink water at all. It's basically lethal. Once you drink water you'll have to pee. And that won't stop until you die. It's called The Piss of Death.

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Or needing a f*ckinr reboot everytime an update hits the shitty fan (gpo enforced)

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lemmy.ml

Oh! I should turn off my laptop. Thx for the reminder

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lemy.lol

You guys dont turn off your laptops? Isn't it bad for the pc? Oh my soul is too old lol
What you guys do instead?

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SkunkWorkzreply
lemmy.world

Walk into an average mega corp office that is full of windows desktops, after everyone has left. Every pc is still on.

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lemy.lol

On like, suspend or hibernate?
I am afraid to put my lap on suspend overnight. Hibernate is actually usefull if you have hectic works on standby and have to shutdown

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Oh. Now I get it. Like finally.

Had to learn about antimemes first. Some of these jokes… like seriously. You need to know the history of the whole joke to get the latest iteration.

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