When I was younger I had a computer where the front fell off and stripped the wires from the button.
To turn it on and off I had to hold the wires together, felt like I was hot wiring a car every time.
Perfect prelude to playing GTA
Wasn’t this built so the front wouldn’t fall off?
Well, Its not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
Well how is it untypical?
When I bench tested components at a PC shop, I’d use my smallest screwdriver to short the pins on the motherboard to start up the caseless computer.
Kinda the same here but one day I noticed it also worked by simply touching the case with one of the wires and that’s how I did it from here.
I have a server that’s a motherboard in a shelf that I stick a screwdriver into to power cycle
You Monster! Why would you power cycle a server?
As it was the style at that time
It’s also how we accidentally shut them down before saving our work
Now that’s my cat’s job. Never again will I buy a case with a top mounted power button.
I had to disconnect power button from mobo because my room mate’s cat would just shut it off, luckily I had a case whose side panel was very easy to open with a hinge, so I tied two cables near the latch and to turn it in, I’d turn the latch open the case, quickly short the cables and close the panel and latch.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Also I swear that cat knew what I did and kept trying to open the latch for a few months before giving up.
Same with me but I have a toddler. Windows has a power button setting that I switched to do nothing when pressed.
I almost did, but instead connected one pin from the reset button and one from the power button to the power header, then bridged the other two connectors making it so I have to push both to fire it up. Easy for me to operate, and he’s still not figured it out haha.
That is genius, I wish I was that smart.
I was on Linux mint XFCE at that time and even though it had a setting to decide what to do when power button is pressed but it was broken and would reset itself every few hours.
She knows the power she holds.
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I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this
Sounds like you need a small electrical project then!
We used to call those missile switches. Probably still do
Ed. A search on my local electronic components shop’s site returned nothing on a search, but scrolling the 211 items in category “switches” found a missile switch cover (to suit toggle switches) as #86, so yes, we still do
Ed the second. Thingiverse shows many printable missile switch covers for diverse switch types
For a very long time it’s been possible to set what the button is doing and it’d only cause a hard shut down if you hold it down for like 5 seconds.
The cat might manage 5 seconds, or even the 11 seconds that usually overrides any settings
ctl-alt-defeet
Still do.
Yeah, did other people’s computers stop having power buttons or something?
Mine would require an impressive feet of lifting my legs above my desk
Power buttons used to be roughly at the center of the front panel, but now it’s either at the edges or at the top
We started putting our PCs on top of the desks, because as we learned over the years, the ground is full of dust and we are now adults that have to pay for our own PC parts.
the ground is full of dust and we are now adults
I seem to see an easy solution there…
I switched to laptop, and have it always on.
The cases got taller and the power buttons moved to the top edge (and often got smaller).
So now those under-the-desk units have their power buttons directly under the plate. Mine specifically it now more a knee- instead of a foot-job… I could press it with my finger without bending down but you have to keep traditiones alive.
And also how you sometimes accidentally turned it off in the middle of an intense Quake 3 session.
I remember Macintosh computers from circa 1990. Even then Apple loved to just remove buttons because they hate buttons. Because it was so perfectly intuitive to drag a disc icon over to the fucking trash can icon in order to eject the floppy disc, they didn’t have a physical eject button for the floppy drive. Helpfully, they instead put the power button right where a floppy drive eject button should have been. So I was constantly turning the computer off whenever I wanted to eject a disc.
They did put the power button on the keyboard though, which was pretty awesome
I remember those keyboards, if I hit that button my PC just hard crashed. Fantastic.
I set up Linux on a laptop with a particularly aggressive keyboard power button recently. I’d be at the terminal go to hit backspace and where Linux?
Yeah, that’s how I do it every morning.
Sometimes, when the ol’ 'puter is cranky, I have to press the reset button, which is really small, and it’s difficult to hit it with my toe (I have to do some tricky nail work, not for beginners), but I’ll be damned if I ever reach down and use my fingers.
I still do, why should it have changed?
Button is on the top now 😔
And too small for my big ass toe
mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
And a turbo button
Made you feel something killing your pc.
That sounds so cool
Still do.
Its a matter of principle.
I remember our family computer having an actual switch instead of a button.
Still did the toe thing though, down for on and up for off.Ah, the “it is now safe to turn off your computer” days
I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
Ah yes, Microsoft installing a ton of updates without informing me first. Like I don’t have anything else to do (which is probably why I’m turning off the computer, to not go do those other things.)
Back when I still rode airplanes, I used to never shut my notebook off except when I was about to leave for a flight. Then I had the pleasure of watching Windows install 957 updates while the cab was honking outside.
Are you a Kids in the Hall fan?
I’m squishing your head!
Right from my body and onto your plate.
My absolute favorite though was Girl Drink Drunk.
❤️
Oh and having to type
PARK
Before doing turning it off :)True, that’s the last time I saw it!
Kinky
Pure efficiency
You sure it isn’t impure efficiency for some?
Nine times out of ten I’d hit the turbo button and then spend half an hour wondering why the family computer was running slowly…
Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…
They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…
I thought that was a switch?
Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.
Ah, that nice 33 -> 66 change
My computer had a key. The trick was to grip it between your toes.
