Power button? Reset button? PSU switch? Clear CMOS button?
Let's try and press them all!
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LUKS header disk emergency destroy button? *boop!
I pressed the button next to the power socket on the wall.
*rings doorbell*
I pressed my jacket button.
That's why there's a distinction between buttons and keys
Is there though?
That's just shit design. Even on keyboards with Power button I've seen, they're usually distinctly shaped and coloured.
“Oh, I’ll need this info later, I better take a screenshot”
fatfingers the power button
Me trying to press F12 in the dark
Yeah I love these fuckin laptops that put the power button somewhere random in the middle of the keyboard where you might accidentally press.
I can’t imagine what goes through the mind of the genius who came up with this shit. Im guessing it was some guy who worked his way up to middle management in a Chinese manufacturing sweatshop, and then managed to sell clients on the idea that they could cut costs because he knew a quick hack to run the wires to the power supply.
To be fair, every OS I've used comes with a confirmation screen when you press the power button. So if you press it accidentally, you can just hit "Cancel".
On KDE Plasma, pressing the power button by default shows an array of buttons for lock, sleep, hibernate, power off, and restart! Very neat I think. You can change this of course, and you can even configure it so that the behaviour changes depending on if you are plugged in, on battery, or in low power mode! I think that is really cool :0
Windows (10 and 11 at the very least) shutdowns upon pressing it
Windows is a bit weird sometimes. On most Linux DEs there is this functionality, and I believe MacOS also has something similar.
I do know that Windows lets you change whether the power button shuts down or makes your screen go to sleep (which doesn't kill all your programs), so you could do that.
On a related note, I hate that you need to click the small button in the start menu to restart on Windows. On Linux, typing "restart" in the search field pops up the option, making it super quick for troubleshooting and that sort. One more reason why Linux is superior to Windows I guess!
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Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such a tiny backspace key.
More like a back-no-space key
Just pressed my car key its very loud
Where's the Any button?!
Oooh, I think I'll order a Tab.
The late comic strip User Friendly did this best back in the day. To the point that its take on it is currently the example on its Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly
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Me: presses button on shirt
Now he's just pushing the IT guy's buttons
How about the Turbo button?
Is this 1992? Where’s my dinosaur? Will someone go to prom with me?
Just rollerblade over to my house, we'll play some Super Nintendo and drink Mello Yello.
Remember ALF? He's back. In pog form.
You’re really pressing his buttons there
Press enter to continue
Presses x.
Huhuhuhihiuh it still works stupid developer huhuhu🦭🦭🦭
I pressed the turbo button
I'm convinced that button did nothing
It did. You used it to make your CPU slower for old timing-dependent games
So its unturbo really?
Yeah, they probably inverted it because it's weird to market a “slow” button
My 386 had turbo on practically all the time except when playing earlier era games where half speed made them playable
It really was an unturbo button
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Its worst when you ask ppl how they got in this situation and they go I dk "the last person told me to do this" knowing full well no they didnt and I have to spend an hour figurjng out wtf they did to undo it all.
I love that guy's face, I can't NOT laugh. Damn, what's the name of the movie again??
Never seen it but Monster House it seems.
Yess! Thank you!
"listen here you little shit"
I press my belly button.
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