Won’t be much longer before we won’t even be able to pull the plug.
Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Do people not just hold down the power button anymore?
tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
turbowafflz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
modern windows tries to trick you into not doing that. if you hold for a little bit it turns the screen off so you think it’s turned off when it really hasn’t, then if you hold a little longer it turns the screen back on and tells you to please stop holding the power button, then finally a little after that the computer actually turns off. why the hardware even makes that possible is beyond me
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This is not Windows, your BIOS controls the power button functionality.
StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
With modern UEFI, it’s controlled by both the OS and the UEFI
I haven’t used Windows in a long while, but there is a setting in KDE that allowed me to disable the power button’s short press function and I think the long press as well.
Came in handy for me when my cat decided to start laying on top of my tower. Every now and then she’d decide to slap her paw down on the power button and abort whatever I was working on.
I was cursing the change away from mechanical toggle, and that button’s position on the top of the case, when she started doing that.
tal@lemmy.today 1 day ago
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/molly-guard
Melonpoly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve never had that experience, holding always does a force shutdown
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s so weird.
I guess I’ve just programmed myself to hold that power button long enough.