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.
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.