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Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?

Hacker News · Jun 30, 2026, 2:15 PM

Key takeaways

  • You don t really need to restart computers anymore unless some update takes place or there s something wrong; shutting down on purpose is even more rare.
  • I could just close all my windows and have a clean desktop environment, and I could probably write a script for it or find an app for it, but I enjoy the manual process.
  • Yeah, it s probably not the smartest way to do this, but sometimes you just need to throw responsibility and reason to the wind.

I like restarting my Mac on Saturday mornings. It s a silly thing really. You don t really need to restart computers anymore unless some update takes place or there s something wrong; shutting down on purpose is even more rare. Which is exactly why I like it.

I could just close all my windows and have a clean desktop environment, and I could probably write a script for it or find an app for it, but I enjoy the manual process. Maybe I m a bit weird, but I like seeing all these warnings: You have unsaved work! Are you sure? Yes, I m sure, I m not working today, take this document and shove it..! Microsoft Edge is preve… Bam! Force quit! Kill kill kill!

Yeah, it s probably not the smartest way to do this, but sometimes you just need to throw responsibility and reason to the wind. Just for a bit.

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