Poor storage drives adding on power cycles
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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Last time this happened to me (read: yesterday) i ended up holding down the power button.
You dont want to shut down when i ask i will make you.
I don't know how but a windows 7 machine I've recently had to use still got an update before shutting down...
I get annoyed when a stop job shows up and I have to wait a minute. On my windows machines, that minute is the baseline and I half expect it to have decided to update and reboot itself again after. The difference is night and day
If that one thumb could read, this might make him mad
People give Windows a lot of flak for this, but at least it usually does turn off after finishing its updates.
MacOS is the one that will just literally ignore the fact that you told it to shut down. Or it takes forever to tell you that a program has unsaved changes. At least Windows will tell you that right away, so that you see the "something is preventing shutdown" message before you walk away from the computer. Your Mac will wait 15 minutes, and then be like, "by the way, the browser doesn't want to close."
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Forgot this command! Gotta see if it'll work on my system and not start a restart when I ask for a shutdown!
Edit:
I hope to high heaven it's just an OS bug! Tried running this and the poweroff -ff commands and it just reboots my system! Now I am paranoid I somehow got a virus on my system!
One-finger salute takes 10 seconds.
Ok fine I can live with that.
But .
Windows: No! That file is open! You cannot.
What.
Mac users: you guys shut it down?
Big fan of hibernate (systemctl hibernate on systemd systems, and you need a swap file that's at least as big as your RAM). Sure I wait some time until it's shut down and booting takes longer, too, but not having to reopen all those terminal and editor windows I'm accumulating while working is worth it.
Yeah, I always set up my laptops to not sleep upon closing the screen, and I use hibernate instead of sleep when I need to leave and come back later. Makes moving an active system much better since I can close it without disrupting things, and hibernate uses zero battery, so it lasts indefinitely while inactive. Plus, none of that "modern standby" BS trying to connect to wifi or start the system back up while packed in a bag. That might be more an issue with my Windows work machines though.
I just press shut down and leave
Hope its turned off when i get back