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

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 '^^

Perfect prelude to playing GTA

Wasn't this built so the front wouldn't fall off?

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.

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.

I have a server that's a motherboard in a shelf that I stick a screwdriver into to power cycle

You might have meant it as a joke but just in case someone else isn't aware, this button actually made your CPU slower 🤓

66 MILES PER HOUR!

Turbo bumped my 8MHz 386 to sixteen megahertz

It never got switched off, except in some games that a slower CPU made easier (some games back then ran just as fast as the hardware could run them, expecting the computers or turn to be the state of the art) By the time of the machine in the picture unturbo wasn't enough so we used a TSR* program called goSlow to get specific performance

*Terminate, Stay Resident; a program that could run in the background

This brings out nostalgia...

They did put the power button on the keyboard though, which was pretty awesome

And a turbo button

Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.

Made you feel something killing your pc.

That sounds so cool

Yeah, did other people's computers stop having power buttons or something?

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

In 2025 I don't turn off the computer.

Ah, the "it is now safe to turn off your computer" days