Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location
kibiz0r@midwest.social 2 weeks agoI’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.
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.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
My friends cats do this all the time. Their paws are small enough to be able to push the button down easily.
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.