What makes you think I don’t do that on my current computer?
Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off?
Submitted 2 months ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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WoodScientist@lemmy.world 2 months ago
scytale@piefed.zip 2 months ago
My toe was for the AVR and UPS. People who grew up in countries with unstable/unreliable electricity can relate. The family desktop computer was basically: power socket > AVR > UPS > computer, with the first two on the floor (therefore using feet to turn them on), and the system unit on the desk right beside the CRT monitor.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Your UPS didn’t also clean your voltage?
scytale@piefed.zip 2 months ago
It did, but we already had an AVR long before the time small UPS units for home use became affordable enough, so we just added it in there in a series.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used everything but my finger.
CrazyHorse@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
The nail on my penid.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 months ago
penits?
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How did you press the power button with itself?
zakobjoa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, just for turbo button.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
I am old enough to know what that is, to have seen several of them in person, to have pressed several of them myself out of curiosity, but apparently too young to ever have seen any effect at all. What did the “turbo” do?
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It actually clocked the processor down rather than speeding things up.
In the early days of PCs games usually just ran as fast as the processor ran. As the processors got faster, games started to run too quickly to play. The turbo button slowed down the processor speed so you could still play those older games.
Now games use the clock to determine how quickly things happen, not the speed of the processor, so we don’t have that problem.
Xella@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… Do we have buttonless towers now or something? Just did this last night.
Emptiness@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was just thinking the same. How does everyone else turn on their towers?
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Lotta towers have the button on top now, for airflow purposes I assume.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mine specifically has a button on top and is in a position currently inaccessible by toe. I don’t know if that is standard though. I know quite a few towers that still have them in front.
Xella@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tower companies saving their products from toe jam by moving the power button
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yes, and it’s hella efficient
KingOfTheCouch@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Make button that fit big toe perfectly, get button pressed by big toe.
Logic.
iveseenthat@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Using foot to turn him on. Yes
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On purpose or by accident?
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
i used to but then i was told that it’s unhealthy for the system so i shut off from the OS side now
Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How do you reach that with your toe?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Practice
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Takes me back holy shit. Haven’t done that in years.
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If not for toe, why toe shaped?
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I simply wired it to a pedal
Jinarched@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Turn off computer? What is that?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I’m not that flexible. my foot doesn’t reach that high easily
s@piefed.world 2 months ago
Why, are they into feet or something?
potatoguy@potato-guy.space 2 months ago
I just did
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Well it would be weird if I used someone else’s toe to do it.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
you can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose
but you shouldn’t pick your friends nose
rustyricotta@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Unless you have an indecisive friend planning for a Rhinoplasty.
Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Unless you use their toe to do it.
PolydoreSmith@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You want a toe? I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, dude. You don’t wanna know about it, believe me.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
With nail polish?