Four months of readings from one laptop
juno · 10:51 PM — 10:45 AM ET · 402 readings · Jul 25, 2026 10:47 AM ET
idle
A small program on this laptop writes down what the machine is doing every few minutes and sends it to a server I run. It has been going for 126 days. What follows is what that turns out to be good for — not monitoring, which it is bad at, but noticing the shapes a single day never contains.
Rhythm →
Working hours, weekly shape, and 77 nights of sleep
Thermal & pressure →
Idle temperature tracks the room; disk, memory, agents
Network →
Latency as a distribution, and what each place costs
Below is the live view: the last 36 hours from this laptop at full resolution, one reading every 322 seconds. It's the least interesting thing here — the pages above draw on 126 days and 27,301 readings, which is where the patterns actually live.
Activity
Active Idle Locked Screensaver
Display
Cinema Display Laptop only
10:51 PM 07:50 AM 04:50 PM 01:47 AM 10:45 AM
Active / Idle
137 / 265
34% active
Network
13.87 GB
4.87 GB sent
Place
Home
-61 dBm
CPU Temp
45°C
Load 2.6
Network
Traffic (Mbps average per 5-min window)
Ping Latency by Network (band = min/max jitter)
WiFi Signal
DNS Resolution Time
System Health