We were chilling and she was remarking how relatable tabpocalypses were, having always like forty tabs open. I asked her, in my smuggest tone, to guess how many tabs i had open. She guessed sixty. I told her lower. She guessed thirty. I said lower. She guessed twenty. I said lower. At this point she started to crack, asking me, incredulously, ten?? I said lower, grinning like the devil i am. She took a long shot. Three? I cackled. Lower. Fuck you, she said. I had one tab open.
I can't close my browser or turn off my computer if I haven't closed all my tabs. I have my browser set to always open with a fresh start and to never reopen tabs from when I last closed the browser, because that disturbs me greatly.
My rule of thumb is if I've opened enough tabs for the X to no longer appear if I hover over an unfocused tab, then I've got too many tabs open, and I must Prune Them, Immediately.
this is an easy hurdle for me to overcome: i haven't turned my computer off since 2002
My dad had a computer that he didn't turn off for like 6 years and one day it made a loud pop sound and turned itself off; we took it to a repair shop and the guy said "yeah because you left it on for 6 years like half of the caps went out" he was able to fix it by recapping the board thankfully, but,
I don't know if that board was a victim of one of the several cap plagues across PC history or not, but because of that incident alone I Cannot allow my PC to stay on 24 hours a day, it fills me with Fear
Now that I pay my own power bill, I don't really turn my computers off at this point. A computer is either On(TM) and I need it to be handy whenever, or Off. In ~the last 20 years I've only had a computer not come back on once, and fortunately I had a full body-double for that machine on hand so I just swapped the power supply out.
This applies to laptops too. I set all my laptops never to sleep when they have shore power, although I rarely use laptops as servers these days.
In reality it would probably not be that big of a deal for me to actually turn my computers off when I wasn't using them, I'm just forgetful.
I can accumulate "a couple" tabs if I'm doing something like, say, researching the price on something or searching for ewaste to buy, but in general I close all my browser tabs every couple days.
Every now and again, I am Computing(TM) but there are no web browser tabs open.
(EDIT: but it does super suck to have that happen and TBH if you have Processes(TM) that absolutely must be kept alive at all costs there's ways other than a home-class or even excelbox-class computer to make that happen, including remote computing and, well, server machines with physical HA features like ECC and dual power supplies)
(EDIT 2: I haven't "not" considered swapping my old previous server in as my desktop, because even though it's slower than what I have now: dual power supplies, RAID storage, and 96 gigs of RAM.)
will bring it back out of sleep like nothing happened. This is especially true of windows. Try at your own peril.
And if you want to keep your impressive uptime statistics but need to move the location of your computer, simply use one of these
why has nobody mentioned hibernate
with hibernate you turn your computer off but it pretends to be sleep mode instead so when you turn it back on everythings still there including uptime
i have my laptop set to automatically hibernate after it's been closed for some time, right now its uptime is over 10 days
sometimes i keep this up for incredibly long and then when i actually reboot i find out i broke something at some point in the last month without realizing it
