How often do y'all shut down your computers / laptops?

@hexaitos A few times a year or do you mean actual poweroff instead of a reboot?

@slatian Anything that isn't simply putting it into hibernate / suspend!

@hexaitos The it’s a few times I do i on purpose, a few kernel panics and sometimes my laptop runs out of battery so ~once a month split across two devices.

The funny thing is that I do reboot my internet facing servers quite often.

@hexaitos almost never

@hexaitos uhhh when i go to sleep

@hexaitos My desktop? All the time. Laptop, sleep mode all the time (partly because I frequently open and close my laptop constantly and need to keep my programs and files open).

Also I heard somewhere that frequently powering off and on wears down the battery and Apple Silicon Macbooks tend to have stupidly impressive sleep battery life (roughly two weeks or so)

@hexaitos the only time I do a full shutdown (that isn't for restarting for an update) is if I'm changing the components or leaving my house for an extended period of time (both of these things almost never happen)

@hexaitos At least once a day before work, or before going to sleep myself.

@hexaitos The desktop? Every day when going to sleep. I don't want it to consume power when Idle, and standby on my system has been very unreliable, with random-ish wake-ups.

The laptops? Maybe once every week or so, usually after a big update with a new kernel or something

@hexaitos At least once a day before work, and before going to sleep myself.

@hexaitos windows/linux stuff: shut down daily / when done using it

macOS: almost never. (Just sleep usually).

@hexaitos Daily, except on weekends where I only suspend.

@hexaitos nightly; this one's devices sleep in the same room as it, and their lights would keep it awake otherwise (even the laptop, whose charging indicator light slowly blinks while the device is powered on for some undiagnosable reason).

@hexaitos the laptop that I take with me to school: daily
the laptop that stays on my desk most of the time: about once every few weeks, whenever I need to update the kernel for security patches (which has been more often than I'd like it to be recently), or I update KDE and screenshots stop working until I restart it (at which point I may as well reboot and get kernel updates applied too)