Github users right now: I don't care, I'll depend on it harder now!
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yeah, but it's microsoft. what's the longest you've gone without rebooting windows? a couple days? It stands to reason.
Win95, maybe
Man when was the last time you used Windows? The regular restart criticism hilariously outdated
My work computer has mandatory updates from IT like every 2 weeks but when I ran Windows on my own PC, I'd go months without restarting. I've restarted my months-old Fedora install more times than that
Outing yourself as a Windows abstainer isn't the worst thing, I guess.
Yeah but it's like saying the iPhone sucks because it doesn't have copy and paste lol
IPhones dont have copy and paste???
They didn't at launch. It was a perk of Android at the time
It was bigger than copy/paste really, there were no contextual menus at all yet. So no place to stick the commands.
They do.
Source: posting from an iPhone
I've had uptimes over 1000 days on some of my air gapped linux and BSD machines. Windows never liked going more than month or two, and now unless you turn off automatic updates you never get close to that wall.
I had automatic updates on and rarely ever got prompted to restart. And when I did, I'd usually ignore it for as long as possible
I and strongly against windows and what microsoft is doing, But you are absolutely correct. If you stick to a build/update that's not trying to brick your NVME, windows desktop uptime is very reasonable.
We're not scoping on stability of thier updates, or the ability to update, just uptime on a run of the mill patched version, it goes as long as you'd need it to for most people.
Now, my linux desktop can go for very very long stretches without updates/reboots if I cared to do it. but windows 11 isn't bad in the way that 95, 98, 2000 were. I'd even argue that win10 was more stable or at the very least had far less breaking issues.
Personally? Months. Regularly weeks. About the same as my servers. Uptime on a single machine isn't a metric of anything meaningful.
That said, GitHub ain't a single machine and the reliability issues are definitely not a good look.
My main runs anywhere between 3 to 6 months at a time before i reboot it.
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Lol I legit thought
whoa a gel electrophoresis meme, I wonder if anyone recognises the sequence.
Worst sorting algorithm ever.
Meanwhile, over at Codeberg: https://status.codeberg.org/
They achieve all of this using 100% open-source infrastructure. If I remember correctly, it's all running on Codeberg-owned hardware as well, not some rented servers.
They were down for like entire day once because they moved that server to a new location by train. In a backpack.
Migrations should always incur downtime
"Hey we're migrating, take a break for a week"
I am disappointed. A few servers have been moved via train and stayed online. Codeberg should do better.
If that was their only downtime that year, that would have resulted in 99.7% uptime.
A company at which I once worked built a functioning server into the frame of a motorcycle. It was after I left, so I'm not sure of the details, including whether it had to be plugged in; but regardless, they called it "the world's fastest server!" and I think that's pretty funny.
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oh fu 
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[vibe coding intensifies]
We're watching the old internet fall apart.
We're watching Microsoft ruin another company. Its like if EA or IBM buys something, its enshittified and rent seeking occurs for shareholders.
Once this Windows monopoly has passed due to the abysmal quality it will hopefully be over, and hopefully AI helps remove barriers to file portability to hasten their demise.
I think that's how a lot of the internet is dying right now because buying an IP then wringing every drop of value out of its dying corpse before dropping it is a good way to make money right now. This is very much a thing that happens outside of the internet too, and happened long before the internet existed. I think one of the cool things about the internet is how quickly word can spread about this kind of compromised company / product / whatever thing, though I think we need to get better at it. I'm not exactly sure how to accomplish that, it seems like an overwhelming problem, but I think about it a lot.
I REALLY hope MS crashes and burns. They're a shitstain company, and the shit Gates did as CEO was atrocious.
We are Flowers for Algernoning our technology.
If I use my phone (not android Auto), I can no longer say, "Navigate to ". It flat out does not work.
Navigate to Local Bakery Xyz.
I'm sorry I can't do that.
(It tries to open the non-existent app for the local bakery).
If I'm in the car that has android auto, it refuses to let me type while in drive (fair enough) and it recognizes the "Navigate to..." Instructions, but if I click on the Maps nav bar for voice and say my destination (it literally says, no text while driving speak your destination)... It tries to open the app.
This shit used to work, it's getting actively dumber.
This morning I got fed up and asked,
"Can I use you to navigate somewhere?"
Sure! Where would you like to go?
"Dutch Bros"
(Opens the Dutch Bros app)
I once tried to ask my phone to set an alarm. It said it did.
I checked the app. No alarm set.
I tried again, but with a timer. It said it was set.
Again, nothing.
I gave up on digital assistants after that. They took them out back and shot them, and what we see now is their rotted corpse puppeted by Shareholder Value™️ gone wrong. This was 2022.
It never occurred to me before now but from here on out, there will probably always be some old part of the internet, crumbling and sparse, moldering and broken, populated by far fewer denizens than it was designed for.
I wonder if that'll just be the ever-fading "old folks" internet.
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At least their status bars are, presumably, somewhat honest. It's pretty common for the status server being used to track various Lemmy instances to show all green even when the site has clearly been down several hours or even for days.
Probably pings the servers instead of checking web server works
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I’m colorblind, but I’m curious to know what is being represented here.
Server / service downtime. For a well managed company, you would expect these to be almost uniformly green, meaning that all servers are responding correctly almost all of the time. This graph has a lot of yellow and red, indicating severe instability in their services.
Not being able to keep servers running is something that typically happens to smaller companies that grow too fast for them to manage. Established companies are (or, IMO, should be...) expected to have near perfect (>99.99%) uptime, and this is indicative of some expertise loss for the company broadly.
99.99%
TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.
But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it's also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.
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https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ offers a slightly more honest version with aggregate numbers
90% uptime is abysmal
Any other company would be asked refunds from most clients
LMAO 1 nine of reliability.
At one place I worked we had a service that had been part of an acquired company that, as far as I could tell, had no one responsible for maintaining it, and it either zero or almost zero users, so it would go down for weeks at a time before somebody noticed and did something about it, usually because it needed a security patch. To this day I have no idea why it wasn't shut down but AFAIK it's still out there causing problems for whoever works there now.
We came up with a bunch of ways to describe its uptime: a service has one fortnine of reliability if it stays up for at least one continuous fortnight of the year, for instance. An absolute nine is nine days per year. Fractional nines were invented: a "quarter nine" was 25% of 90%uptime, or 22.5% total uptime.
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