Yeah, that’s how I do it every morning.
Sometimes, when the ol’ 'puter is cranky, I have to press the reset button, which is really small, and it’s difficult to hit it with my toe (I have to do some tricky nail work, not for beginners), but I’ll be damned if I ever reach down and use my fingers.
When I was younger I had a computer where the front fell off and stripped the wires from the button.
To turn it on and off I had to hold the wires together, felt like I was hot wiring a car every time.
Kinda the same here but one day I noticed it also worked by simply touching the case with one of the wires and that’s how I did it from here.
When I bench tested components at a PC shop, I’d use my smallest screwdriver to short the pins on the motherboard to start up the caseless computer.
Wasn’t this built so the front wouldn’t fall off?
Well, Its not very typical, I’d like to make that point.
We’ve towed it outside of the environment.
Well how is it untypical?
I have a server that’s a motherboard in a shelf that I stick a screwdriver into to power cycle
You Monster! Why would you power cycle a server?
Perfect prelude to playing GTA
Mine had the power button too high, so I would accidentally turn it off with my knee
Still do.
Its a matter of principle.
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
True, that’s the last time I saw it!
I wish that they’d had a startup screen that said “it’s now dangerous to turn off your computer”.
SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED
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 :)
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
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
Flexibility training.
People tend to have laptops these days, only gamers need towers but gamers don’t want their PC to be Vacuum cleaner neither.
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).
I got one of those Mac minis and the button is on the bottom!
Apple is pretty shitty at design though especially for a company so renowned for design haha.
I have a bunch of mini Linux computers too and they have mostly normal buttons but they are tiny. Probably too tiny for toes.
Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
Power button on top sucks balls, I preferred it on the front
Much safer from cats
Oh tiny piece of cardboard save us from the demons of fur and claw
I use a tiny translucent toy turtle. It’s cute, and I can still see the LED of the power button.
The Screen Savers for your education: https://youtu.be/CJh-QhhzTKo
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 🤭
ctl-alt-defeet
I still do it bro
It’s still the 2000’s so I still do
And also how you sometimes accidentally turned it off in the middle of an intense Quake 3 session.
Still do.
Yeah, did other people’s computers stop having power buttons or something?
Power buttons used to be roughly at the center of the front panel, but now it’s either at the edges or at the top
We started putting our PCs on top of the desks, because as we learned over the years, the ground is full of dust and we are now adults that have to pay for our own PC parts.
I switched to laptop, and have it always on.
Mine would require an impressive feet of lifting my legs above my desk
and impressive feet
On point typo
Who said it was a typo :p
The word is usually spelt feat when talking about something you did. It looked more like a spelling error than wit
Ah I see now, they must be related to the butt:)
WHO let the dogs out !?
