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> My apps are always on and I restart my laptop like once per month, otherwise it’s in standby all the time. Such reliably is unheard of with the Linux desktop.

Bullshit. I'm at 42 days on a ThinkPad running Void Linux.

> 19:19:22 up 42 days, 19:53, 1 user, load average: 2.37, 0.98, 0.56

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So do you not use FDE? I'd think that to protect data at rest, especially on a laptop, it's good practice to power down whenever you're away. Otherwise keys are just sitting there in memory.

It's actually possible to suspend io to the encrypted data and remove the keys from ram and prompt for the passphrase at resume to unlock.

Check out go-luks-suspend

Since we're whipping out our uptimes for all to see:

> 20:41:21 up 58 days, 57 min, 2 users, load average: 0.25, 0.36, 0.38

Fedora 28 - Thinkpad T420

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