lol I was so confused by Firefox not needing to restart that I tried running update again and then closed it myself because I thought something went wrong
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that forced restart is probably going to be a huge win for our rolling release brothers and sisters.
I believe, Firefox bugfix releases get rolled out pretty quickly on most non-rolling distros, too, so I don't think it's a terribly different experience, unless you're on a distro with Firefox ESR, like e.g. Debian.
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Good to know that I am not the only one mistaking Cr1TiKaL aka MoistCr1TiKaL aka penguinz0 aka Charles Christopher White Jr. as Asmongold aka Zack Hoyt (the rightwing influencer).
the guy in the picture isnt the cockroach king?
WHAT???? ALL OF THOSE FEATURES HAVE BEEN IN NIGHTLY FOR A MONTH AND I STILL ALWAYS RESTART IT OUT OF HABIT! IT'S LITERALLY PART OF MY ROUTINE AND NOW YOU TELL ME IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE ANYMORE?
Watch out, we got a badass over here. Running a nightly build and not reading the patch notes, so brave.
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My switch to linux came just in time bby
Charlie's still using that gamer version of Opera though. With the fake key stroke sounds enabled.
Charlie is a simple creature.
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Getting rid of that forced restart will at least help me personally stay more secure and get bug fixes faster
How was memory use actually reduced? I read several articles on this, but I didnβt see anyone talking about how they achieved this.
Fork server - eliminates the need to restart and reduces memory per new process
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Oh, that is good news. Hurray!
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I miss the days when it was normal to just shut down the pc when you were done with it. Leaving things on all of the time isn't healthy.
Fully disagree. Just leave it on, restart it once every 7-10 days if you're using windows. Linux, reboot when it asks, could be months.
When I finish what I want to do on my PC, I type βyayβ enjoy text and pacmans going left to right, press enter some times, and type sudo pw some times.
After that I reboot to check, that I am not stuck in TTY and turn off after
It's healthier for the hardware to just leave it running then turning it off and on all the time.
We ain't in the days of mechanical moving parts anymore. Idle time is way less of a problem then power ons.
Fans and pumps don't have any moving parts any longer?
Ramping up or down degrades your fans and pumps faster than keeping them at a low constant RPM, so yes, idle beats shutting down.
Ideally they'd be set to not be running unless they're actively needed.
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I leave my work machine on constantly, but am very careful and shut down my home machine when I go to bed.
It just feels wrong to leave it powered up.
I always turn computer off when done, it never sleeps or hibernates, no need since I'm either using it or not, through been leaving it on 24/7 at moment due to wiping some hard drives which takes time, so it's working which is fine π¬
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