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[-] megopie@beehaw.org 3 points 16 hours ago

in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days

… do people not turn their computers off when they’re done using them?

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago

only reason i turn my computer off is power draw and noise

[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 4 points 14 hours ago

I sure don't, my current record is 6 years (On Windows no less lmao)

[-] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago
[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 2 points 6 hours ago
[-] yuri@pawb.social 1 points 3 hours ago

you lucky duck

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 10 hours ago

I guess you must have Windows Update turned off, because I feel like I was being forced to restart on a weekly basis before finally moving to linux.
I don't restart unless I'm installing a kernel update or something else that requires it, it's nice never having to come back to "Let's finish setting up yyour PC" or whatever "Please use OneDrive" ad they've put in.

[-] cm0002@lemy.lol 1 points 6 hours ago

Yea I stop all updates, it's kept me from having to fight Copilot, OneDrive, edge reinstalling and all the other shit MS shoves in

[-] keisatsu@infosec.pub 4 points 16 hours ago
[-] megopie@beehaw.org 1 points 15 hours ago

Sleep is important

All my boot time comes from LUKS decryption...

[-] peterhorvath@mastodon.de 1 points 23 hours ago

@unexposedhazard @cm0002 Das sollte nicht so sein, symmetrische Ciphers sind schnell

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 1 points 8 hours ago

Maybe they're counting time to type in a password. That's what it comes down to for me, in my boottime graph. Hugely bloated initramfs times dominating everything cause I took human timescales to input 60 characters.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

So wie ichs verstehe ist Argon2 absichtlich "langsam" um bruteforce Angriffe zu erschweren. Auf meinem 5800X3D brauchts nur ~2 Sekunden aber auf nem Thinkpad mit deutlich weniger compute sind das eher so 10 Sekunden.

[-] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 27 points 1 day ago

I boot off an SSD and besides intentional delays like waiting to see if I want to pick a different kernel, it only takes a handful of seconds. I don't really see the issue, but it's a good cause and best of luck I guess.

[-] testaccount372920@piefed.zip 15 points 1 day ago

That's basically what the article states. Most users have fast enough systems to not bother with this tool, but embedded systems and other slow hardware could benefit from this. I imagine it's mostly useful for engineers (and smart home hobbyists) to optimize processes or product lines.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

5 seconds? How?

My grub is set to 2sec.

From pressing the power on button to an open start menu (I measure like this because the DE is still unusable for a good 5s after it becomes visible) it takes me about 36 seconds.

I recently tried hibernation thinking it would speed things up, but it takes about 2 minutes... huge RAM bad I guess.

(And yes, windows on the same hardware is way faster at about 17s, because it does some magic idk about)

[-] Redjard@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago

Hibernation shouldn't take long unless you actually have a lot in ram. It won't write empty ram, it's really more like swapping out all pages.

Maybe your ssd is just slow? Some motherboards also take their sweet time.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 9 hours ago

Windows has had a "fast startup" thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

I used to always disable it because I've run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

Fortunately I don't have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn't matter.

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 21 hours ago

Your boot time is slow?

Mine goes from cold off to login screen in 5 seconds

[-] LaMouette@jlai.lu 8 points 23 hours ago

Bazzite take a very long time to load on a 16gb ram core i7 laptop i have. Something like 30s at least. So I'd take any advice to improve that

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago

The way I improved it was by remembering that 30 seconds isn't actually a long time at all

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 2 points 8 hours ago

People downvote but i remember when my pc would take 5 to 10 minutes to boot. 30 seconds isn't very long, just turn it on, walk to another room, and it's on by the time you've turned around and came back

[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

Doesn't systemd have a command to do something similar? Why use this.

But also, you guys reboot? 😅

[-] Wiz@midwest.social 2 points 9 hours ago

I don't like the idea of giving extra money to my douchebag power company when I don't need to. Stupid mandated monopoly with mandated profit margin.

[-] justlemmyin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

I meant mine goes to sleep for when I am not using it. Seems to work fine.

[-] Gonzako@lemmy.world 7 points 22 hours ago

PCs on my room and shutting it down is a good ritual to sleep

[-] KaRunChiy@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

It takes my system 3 seconds to go from POST to a gui login, so uuhhh, what boot times

[-] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago
[-] peterhorvath@mastodon.de -2 points 1 day ago

@Evotech @cm0002 Systemd ist eine sch...e, es sagt parallel boot, aber es hat so viele unnötige interne Abhängigkeite, es ist praktisch single-threaded wie sysv. Runit is parallel, niemand nutzt es.

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