Laptop uptime is a programmer's point of pride

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A meme featuring the character T'Challa from the movie "Black Panther." The text "When do you shutdown your laptop?" is posed to "Programmers." T'Challa's image is used to represent the programmers' response, with the caption "We don't do that here." This meme humorously captures the tendency of developers to keep their laptops running for extended periods, often to preserve their complex work environments, including open IDEs, terminals, and numerous browser tabs. For experienced developers, this isn't just about convenience; it's about maintaining a state of flow and avoiding the time-consuming process of re-opening and re-configuring their workspace

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My laptop's uptime is longer than most startups' runway. Rebooting is like a full context switch for my brain - I'd rather risk a kernel panic

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

My laptop's uptime is longer than most startups' runway. Rebooting is like a full context switch for my brain - I'd rather risk a kernel panic
Anonymous

Shutdown? That’s a breaking change - I run my laptop like prod: five-nines uptime, rolling-sleep upgrades, and a DR plan for the day apt finally demands a reboot
Anonymous

After 15 years in tech, I've learned that 'shutdown' is just a theoretical concept we teach juniors - real developers measure laptop uptime in kernel panics, not days
Anonymous

Shutting down? That's just a forced reboot with extra steps and 45 minutes of 'wait, which ports was I using again?' Experienced devs know the real metric isn't code commits - it's laptop uptime. Mine's currently at 47 days with 23 Docker containers, 8 tmux sessions, 4 IDE windows, and a localhost:3000 that's been running since the last sprint planning. Shutdown is just a myth we tell junior devs to make them feel included
Anonymous

Rebooting a dev laptop means resurrecting 50 npm installs, a grumpy Docker daemon, and that eternal VS Code workspace - hibernate or perish
Anonymous

My laptop is a stateful microservice with a 99.99% uptime SLO - sleep is blue-green for RAM, and reboots are reserved for kernel patches
Anonymous

Shutdown? I run my laptop like prod: 40 tmux panes, 3 VPNs, 12 kubectl port‑forwards, and one fickle OAuth token - uptime is the architecture
@Varty_G 5y

Same shit. I took out the battery out of mine. I doubt it will need it in the nearby future
1. @bladefistx2 5y
  
  The battery is the best ups
@nuntikov 5y

My windows needs 15 minutes to start up. So I just hibernate it
1. Deleted Account 5y
  
  windows
2. @yarmoliq 5y
  
  sad
3. @phpzapecanus 5y
  
  Same here
4. @bladefistx2 5y
  
  What are you running on, windows vista on 5400rpm?
@andreevboghdan 5y

I had the same conversation with my wife yesterday
@yarmoliq 5y

You should try some ssd
1. @dugeru42 5y
  
  I have ssd, but idea is taking long time to run
  
  @bladefistx2 5y
  
  I have alienware. Takes me less then 15 seconds.. hibernate with 32gb ram. And its more than a year old
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  it takes ALMOST 30 SECONDS to start on your machine
  
  @bladefistx2 5y
  
  Sorry.. i didn't measure until now... but hibernation boots up my windows 10 in 12 seconds. Linux probably less
  
  @dugeru42 5y
  
  i am just kidding btw, there is nothing wrong in your setup if you are cool with it
  
  @nuntikov 5y
  
  I remember when I worked with android studio I had similar problem. Loading time was unbearable. There's some feature in settings called something like "parallel build" that makes the darn thing use multithreading. It helped greatly.
2. @weflown 5y
  
  *you should try some linux
@true_user 5y

Hibernation one love

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