I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

  • stringere@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    21 hours ago

    I remember older gaming forums where people would have their uptime in their post signatures.

    Edit to add: upon reflection it was all the more impressive because almost all gaming PCs were Windows.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs

      Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 had a problem with rollovers in a virtual device driver, VTDAPI.VXD, which used unsigned 32-bit integers to measure system runtime in milliseconds; this value would overflow after 49.7 days, causing systems to freeze.[93]

      The horrifying thing here isn’t just the bug, but that this made it into two major releases of Windows because the system was sufficiently-unstable that it wasn’t tracked down for years.

      One area where desktop computers have come a very long way in the past 30 years is in OS stability.