Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s still the OS doing it, it’s just reacting to the power button press like any other input device.

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You are unbelievably pedantic.

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    • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was going to downvote you when I realized

      Yeah, that isn’t a important distinction in a discussion about power button locations

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  • dingdong@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if you hold the power button. Yeah if you single press a power button, the os can divert that, but long press, the SMC will cut power. Similarly how, pressing the power and the volume button on a phone, cuts power, even if the OS is hard frozen. Sometimes you just need an emergency exit.

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone who isn’t a pedant would interpret “using the OS” as going through the start menu, or equivalent.

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    • Crashumbc@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True but that’s extremely rare for people to do.

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      • dingdong@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        True but if you can’t do it, you are pretty screwed.

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• Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You raise a good point

  Honestly for me it’s muscle memory from the Windows 95 days of “it is now safe to turn off your computer” but I also don’t trust the OS to correctly interpret the ACPI signal sent by the power button 100% of the time. Obviously I’m not an average user, but I could see where an average user might consistently single press the power button to turn off a computer

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