What do you usually do if the compile time is something like 15 minutes?

That's what the second monitor is for.

Which means the actual answer is miss the sudo prompt for a password and time out the update...

Say to the colleagues that the compile time is 45 minutes and go browse Lemmy

Lol, compile times are usually like at least double that on the hardware I run 😂.

I just usually visit reddit, or in the last week or so, Lemmy. Sometimes I do code/script corrections, but rarely to be honest.

Cheer the computer along every step and offer motivational speeches

I read the code I just wrote before finding out I have some issue meaning I'll have to re-compile, 20 minutes in.

Edit: Oh shit, you likely mean not my own code. In that case I just read their code and pretend I know what's going on.