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minus-squareBrewchin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoJust reading this gave me a flashback to the old Windows 9x issue where, if you left a machine running “too long”, it would crash. 😅 Can’t recall the number of days, though. 38? 68? 78? Something like that.
minus-squarefallaciousBasis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·2 days agoThat’s not a thing. At 49.7 days a timer overflows. That could cause problems… It doesn’t guarantee problems.
minus-squareBrewchin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThat’s the one. And fair enough. Had a couple of users tell me it crashed their PCs, but that was my only reference.
Just reading this gave me a flashback to the old Windows 9x issue where, if you left a machine running “too long”, it would crash. 😅
Can’t recall the number of days, though. 38? 68? 78? Something like that.
That’s not a thing.
At 49.7 days a timer overflows. That could cause problems… It doesn’t guarantee problems.
That’s the one. And fair enough.
Had a couple of users tell me it crashed their PCs, but that was my only reference.