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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

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[โ€“] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

Yep, that's the right timeframe I was referring to.