There was the “How can I hold my poop for three days” post. That one got pretty big

My coffee machine and associated presses grinders and the like. My cast iron pan, and my Dutch oven

Its very important in embedded applications. Think of kiosks or other customer facing software. The longer it takes to boot the longer its out of service before the reboot finishes. It is essentially the upper bound of recovery time after an error.

I do the classic where I get anxious about having to be up and actually alert, and don’t sleep as a result. Don’t really recommend.