corvi comments on I Assumed 'Twas The Boot Code

[–] corvi@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Now that’s my cat’s job. Never again will I buy a case with a top mounted power button.

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[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Same with me but I have a toddler. Windows has a power button setting that I switched to do nothing when pressed.

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[–] brap@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 year ago

That is genius, I wish I was that smart.

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[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] hash@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 year ago

She knows the power she holds.

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[+] JordanZ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

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!

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We used to call those missile switches. Probably still do

Ed. A search on my local electronic components shop's site returned nothing on a search, but scrolling the 211 items in category "switches" found a missile switch cover (to suit toggle switches) as #86, so yes, we still do

Ed the second. Thingiverse shows many printable missile switch covers for diverse switch types