mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.
And a turbo button
Made you feel something killing your pc.
Hey man, as long as it’s consensual…
Nine times out of ten I’d hit the turbo button and then spend half an hour wondering why the family computer was running slowly…
Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…
They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…
I thought that was a switch?
Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.
Ah, that nice 33 -> 66 change
hah, i had my desktop on the “desk” cuz i was cool like that
I can still hear/feel the gradual effect followed with the iconic “click”
And all the loud noises of the giant components used to be in such PCs 🤭
I guess that’s why they call it “booting”
My computer had a key. The trick was to grip it between your toes.
Do people not still do this? People must still have towers, and they must have on buttons, right?
I’ve not built a tower in a good few years now so maybe I’m out of touch and they’re all voice activated now or use DNA scanners from Gattaca idk xD
Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
I have a tower but it’s on my desk (and the button is on the top facing the ceiling) so using my foot to turn it in would be a slight issue lol
People learned that computer cases shouldn’t go on the ground, unless you want them to be a dust magnet (especially if you have a case with intakes on the bottom for the GPU).
And also how you sometimes accidentally turned it off in the middle of an intense Quake 3 session.
I used to get little muscle spasms in my legs if I sat for too long that made them kick out and the amount of times I accidentally kicked the power button was comical.
Has something changed?
In 2025 I don’t turn off the computer.
Smaller power buttons and often on top rather than in front. Also feel like hard and clicky is more popular than soft and linear now
I still do it lol.
The real off-button is usually down at the back, on the PSU.
switch, not button
You are technically correct, the best form of correct.
I don’t get it why though. The one on mine feels very cheap, specially with it having a fulcrum on one side, making it not go down straight, while using the design language of something that would go down straight.
The crap buttons are cheaper. If your product was optimised for price it will have buttons that cost the least
They’re on the top because most users find that more convenient
They’re clicky or linear depending on taste
The old ones were heavy, clunky, and certainly expensive
That, on top of the new boxes being more expensive.
They are just increasing their margins as much as possible.
It’s also how we accidentally shut them down before saving our work
Now that’s my cat’s job. Never again will I buy a case with a top mounted power button.
I had to disconnect power button from mobo because my room mate’s cat would just shut it off, luckily I had a case whose side panel was very easy to open with a hinge, so I tied two cables near the latch and to turn it in, I’d turn the latch open the case, quickly short the cables and close the panel and latch.
Thanks for reminding me of that. Also I swear that cat knew what I did and kept trying to open the latch for a few months before giving up.
Same with me but I have a toddler. Windows has a power button setting that I switched to do nothing when pressed.
I was on Linux mint XFCE at that time and even though it had a setting to decide what to do when power button is pressed but it was broken and would reset itself every few hours.
I almost did, but instead connected one pin from the reset button and one from the power button to the power header, then bridged the other two connectors making it so I have to push both to fire it up. Easy for me to operate, and he’s still not figured it out haha.
That is genius, I wish I was that smart.
She knows the power she holds.
You could install a second power switch inline with the first. If both are momentary contact then you’d have to press both at the same time to turn it on(or hold one, etc).
I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this. Toggle it on then press the normal button. You could leave it on to keep the regular button working or toggle it off and disable it.
I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this
Sounds like you need a small electrical project then!
For a very long time it’s been possible to set what the button is doing and it’d only cause a hard shut down if you hold it down for like 5 seconds.
I’ve had that issue in several ways. Of course what you said, had an extension cord with a switch below my desk and I kept accidentally hitting that switch in the same way, lived in an apartment some years ago that had some shitty electrical work done by the previous tenant and if I had enough lamps on while my computer and screen where on and I tried to plug in my phone or turn the TV on the circuit popped, and most recently I’ve been playing games via cloud streaming (Shadow) and my Ethernet cable has lost the security tab thingy on both ends and I keep accidentally moving other cables so they touch the Ethernet cable and it falls out. Most of the time I can just put it back in an reconnect to the cloud computer but sometimes it just refuses to do that so the cloud computer shuts down before I’m able to get it working. Lost several hours of progress in various games throughout the past couple of years, but I never buy anything new unless it’s absolutely needed so I just live with and accept it '^^
I remember our family computer having an actual switch instead of a button.
Still did the toe thing though, down for on and up for off.Ah, the “it is now safe to turn off your computer” days
Ah yes, Microsoft installing a ton of updates without informing me first. Like I don’t have anything else to do (which is probably why I’m turning off the computer, to not go do those other things.)
Back when I still rode airplanes, I used to never shut my notebook off except when I was about to leave for a flight. Then I had the pleasure of watching Windows install 957 updates while the cab was honking outside.
Are you a Kids in the Hall fan?
I’m squishing your head!
Right from my body and onto your plate.
My absolute favorite though was Girl Drink Drunk.
❤️
Oh and having to type
PARK
Before doing turning it off :)
I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
We used to have a power bar that every thing was connected to. Same principle applies.
I still do it bro
