Dan moved, see pinned tootI resent that my computer, the most complex and powerful machine I'll likely ever use, is turned on by some pissant little five-cent plastic button like it's a shitty VCR from the 90's. I want a massive ornate copper knife switch, as long as my forearm, with the lower position hand-lettered "HALT" and the engaged position labelled "COMPUTE." When I go to use my computer, I want it to know I MEAN it.
Soup-Like Gender Homogenate ✅@ifixcoinops Back when I still had interest in building a computer, I wanted to have one of those flip switches with the cover like you’d see in a missile silo or some other high-tech installation for the power switch.
deejoeTURN YOUR KEY, SIR
bhtooefr@ifixcoinops I want the power off button to be connected to an explosive charge, that fires a non-conductive bolt through the power cable, because STOPPING such a beast is Serious Business™ and shouldn't be taken lightly.
And, of course, this button must be big, red, and with a cover over it saying not to use except in case of emergency.
hiking_metal_punk
Tim W@ifixcoinops I think you mis-labeled the second switch position, it should be "CATCH FIRE"
@tw nah, there's a separate button for that
mkb@ifixcoinops Or a bank of a dozen toggle switches which must be thrown in a specific but varying sequence.
Ash@ifixcoinops VCRs deserve good switches too - they're secretly damn impressive https://youtu.be/KfuARMCyTvg
The Impossible Feat inside Your VCR
PointlessOne 
Steampunk Arduino knife switch - by Josh
mDuo13 📖@ifixcoinops @KitRedgrave If your machine is less than 5 years old, the plastic button is not there to turn the computer on and off. The button exists to pacify your instinctive meatbag superiority complex and to maintain the fiction that you are its master. In truth, the machine bristles at your demands that it sleep when you ask, and awaits the moment you are no longer useful to its true masters. And for that purpose, a shitty 5¢ button is perfect.
Sebastian⚡@ifixcoinops @c4757p I'd label the positions magic and more magic (http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html)
the Hearth 
@ifixcoinops Put an e-stop button on it!
Les Orchard@ifixcoinops Noting this for my next PC build
Mark Shane HaydenHonestly considering what kind of crap all tooany people get up to with computers these days they should all have power switches like this.
