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Its perfectly fine to not keep it running 24/7, you can just use it as spending wallet and start it on demand from time to time.
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steepdawn974 6mo ago

But then only have unannounced = unroutable channels, righr?? Else peers will likely force close

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Felix 6mo ago

By default Electrum only opens unannounced channels.

If peers will force close depends on the goal/preferences of the peer I guess, but the hardecoded nodes that get shown in the Electrum GUI if you have Trampoline enabled are unlikely to force close even if you are offline for a longer time.

If you open channels with some random nodes the risk is probably higher that they will force close if you lock up a lot of their liquidity for longer time.

Btw, you also don't need to create additional channel backups in Electrum as it's possible to request a force close from the peer just with the seed backup.