Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location

kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• ziggurat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t know how to windows, but in Linux I just disable the power button on my laptop. Long press still works, this was to avoid accidentally putting the laptop to sleep when accidentally pressing the power button

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll just stick with covering it up. Without fail, if I leave it uncovered my cat will press it. She’s even held it long enough for a forced shutdown twice that I can think of.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That is hilarious.

      I spent a while trying to figure out how a cat could possibly long press a power button, even pressing it at all should be a challenge…

      Then I remembered that most people use laptops.

      I would be impressed if a cat could home the power button in for several seconds in my tower, you have to depress the button about a 1/4 inch.

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I would be impressed if a cat could hold the power button in for several seconds on my tower, you have to depress the button about a 1/4 inch.

        My friends cats do this all the time. Their paws are small enough to be able to push the button down easily.

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      • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They’re all towers. But the buttons are all pretty shallow with very light actuation force required.

        And they all happen to be situated such that the corner which has the button is the corner furthest away from the desk, so when she jumps up onto the PC as a platform to get ready to jump onto the desk, her feet are all grouped up right in that corner.

        And you can imagine that if she’s crouched down ready to jump, and I put my arm out to prevent her from jumping from the tower to the desk, that’s a lot of pressure all applied to her little toe beans.

        It’s an unfortunate coincidence. But that experience, together with seeing this Mac Mini design, has made me wonder why we tend to put a button with such drastic effects right out in the open like this.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can set the power button in Windows to either, do nothing, make the computer sleep, hibernate the computer, shut down, or turn off the display.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t you have to hold the power button in to force to shut down?

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes, but even pushing it will bring up a prompt, which is annoying. And also my cat has held it down long enough to force a shutdown on my media server before, as well as on my wife’s PC during Overwatch.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And you can disable it in the options.

    At least in Windows.

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