It’s still the 2000’s so I still do
The convenient toe remote.
ctl-alt-defeet
When I was younger I had a computer where the wrong fell off and stripper 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.
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.
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.
We’ve towed it outside of the environment.
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.
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?
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.
You could install a second power switch inline with the first. If both are momentary contact then you’d have to press both at the same time to turn it on(or hold one, etc).
I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this. Toggle it on then press the normal button. You could leave it on to keep the regular button working or toggle it off and disable it.
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!
She knows the power she holds.
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.
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.
I’ve had that issue in several ways. Of course what you said, had an extension cord with a switch below my desk and I kept accidentally hitting that switch in the same way, lived in an apartment some years ago that had some shitty electrical work done by the previous tenant and if I had enough lamps on while my computer and screen where on and I tried to plug in my phone or turn the TV on the circuit popped, and most recently I’ve been playing games via cloud streaming (Shadow) and my Ethernet cable has lost the security tab thingy on both ends and I keep accidentally moving other cables so they touch the Ethernet cable and it falls out. Most of the time I can just put it back in an reconnect to the cloud computer but sometimes it just refuses to do that so the cloud computer shuts down before I’m able to get it working. Lost several hours of progress in various games throughout the past couple of years, but I never buy anything new unless it’s absolutely needed so I just live with and accept it '^^
WHO let the dogs out !?
Still do.
Yeah, did other people’s computers stop having power buttons or something?
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.
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
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.
Mine would require and impressive feet of lifting my legs above my desk
and impressive feet
On point typo
Who said it was a typo :p
The word is usually spelt feat when talking about something you did. It looked more like a spelling error than wit
Ah I see now, they must be related to the butt:)
Power button on top sucks balls, I preferred it on the front
Much safer from cats
Oh tiny piece of cardboard save us from the demons of fur and claw
I use a tiny translucent toy turtle. It’s cute, and I can still see the LED of the power button.
so true
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 tricky 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.
My computer had a key. The trick was to grip it between your toes.
Who turns off the computer?
I do, because I have to pay my electricity bill. I also turn off lights and run things like laundry later at night.
I prefer my PC off when I’m not using it, that way it’s encrypted.
You did back then because they used way more electricity. And prior to this sleep mode didn’t exist.
hah, i had my desktop on the “desk” cuz i was cool like that
Not all painted toe nails though
Just the big toe
The classy ones have white tips
The classier ones have a coke nail.
