• Talaraine
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    362 months ago

    Hilariously accurate, especially in modern Window’s systems. Like, you press it and it covers your screen with a ‘slide this to shut down’, which if we could do that, we probably wouldn’t be using the button.

    Instead of a 5 second press and done it’s become more like a 20 second struggle to tell the PC you really mean it!

    • @Z3k3
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      102 months ago

      Slide this to shut down on windows?

        • @Z3k3
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          42 months ago

          Never seen that before. Is it dependent on touch screens? Work laptop uses win11

          • Talaraine
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            52 months ago

            Nope, get it on every version of Windows 11 that I work with. You’re supposed to use your mouse to slide it down on those. Crazy, huh?

            • @Z3k3
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              52 months ago

              Huh. Wonder if it’s controlled by gpo,

              but then at the same time my works it dept is the most incompetent dept I have delt with in 30 years and are afraid to deviate from defaults while actively blocking dependencies the companies own software requires

    • @Ziglin
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      22 months ago

      Sounds like an iPad.

      I think after like 5s something above the kernel kicks in on my PC and it’s off in less than a second.

        • @Ziglin
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          12 months ago

          Yes but in one case the kernel gets to do it. Holding the power button on the computer bypasses this after 5s while the apple tablet needs a lot longer (it feels like at least 10s).

  • @[email protected]
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    302 months ago

    I don’t really feel any remorse though. It didn’t do what I said. It gets the consequences.

  • qprimed
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    212 months ago

    I torture it by pointing its webcam at the wall outlet and forcing it to watch its own pull-the-plug execution.

    I will be among the first against the wall when the AI revolution comes.

  • Ohbs
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    192 months ago

  • @[email protected]
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    162 months ago

    And every computer has a different level of fight left in it. You just have to hold until it finally stops kicking.

  • I Cast Fist
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    32 months ago

    I miss having dedicated power and reset buttons, where you just press power and it immediately powers off, instead of the computer waiting just to be sure you’re sure you meant to press the fucking button that is clearly labeled and out of the way to avoid incidents.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 month ago

    my old 2008 netbook is easy to force shutdown, just press it once and bam, no holding down. the buttons hard to reach tho (or you can always poweroff from bash/shutdown -s -t 0 from cmd)