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He said "any" (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by MattW03@lemmy.ca to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 94 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Power button? Reset button? PSU switch? Clear CMOS button?

Let's try and press them all!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 28 points 3 months ago

LUKS header disk emergency destroy button? *boop!

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I pressed the button next to the power socket on the wall.

[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've found our UK friend

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[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 13 points 3 months ago

*rings doorbell*

[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

I pressed my jacket button.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 70 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's why there's a distinction between buttons and keys

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 69 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is there though?

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 35 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's just shit design. Even on keyboards with Power button I've seen, they're usually distinctly shaped and coloured.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 57 points 3 months ago

“Oh, I’ll need this info later, I better take a screenshot”

fatfingers the power button

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 months ago

Me trying to press F12 in the dark

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I love these fuckin laptops that put the power button somewhere random in the middle of the keyboard where you might accidentally press.

I can’t imagine what goes through the mind of the genius who came up with this shit. Im guessing it was some guy who worked his way up to middle management in a Chinese manufacturing sweatshop, and then managed to sell clients on the idea that they could cut costs because he knew a quick hack to run the wires to the power supply.

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[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 months ago

On KDE Plasma, pressing the power button by default shows an array of buttons for lock, sleep, hibernate, power off, and restart! Very neat I think. You can change this of course, and you can even configure it so that the behaviour changes depending on if you are plugged in, on battery, or in low power mode! I think that is really cool :0

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Windows (10 and 11 at the very least) shutdowns upon pressing it

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Windows is a bit weird sometimes. On most Linux DEs there is this functionality, and I believe MacOS also has something similar.

I do know that Windows lets you change whether the power button shuts down or makes your screen go to sleep (which doesn't kill all your programs), so you could do that.

On a related note, I hate that you need to click the small button in the start menu to restart on Windows. On Linux, typing "restart" in the search field pops up the option, making it super quick for troubleshooting and that sort. One more reason why Linux is superior to Windows I guess!

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[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such a tiny backspace key.

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

More like a back-no-space key

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 11 points 3 months ago

Just pressed my car key its very loud

[–] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Where's the Any button?!

[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

Oooh, I think I'll order a Tab.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The late comic strip User Friendly did this best back in the day. To the point that its take on it is currently the example on its Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago

Me: presses button on shirt

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about the Turbo button?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this 1992? Where’s my dinosaur? Will someone go to prom with me?

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just rollerblade over to my house, we'll play some Super Nintendo and drink Mello Yello.

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Remember ALF? He's back. In pog form.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now he's just pushing the IT guy's buttons

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 3 months ago

You’re really pressing his buttons there

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Press enter to continue

Presses x.

Huhuhuhihiuh it still works stupid developer huhuhu🦭🦭🦭

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

taps ctrl and shift repeatedly.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love that guy's face, I can't NOT laugh. Damn, what's the name of the movie again??

[–] childOfMagenta@jlai.lu 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never seen it but Monster House it seems.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Yess! Thank you!

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 3 months ago

Its worst when you ask ppl how they got in this situation and they go I dk "the last person told me to do this" knowing full well no they didnt and I have to spend an hour figurjng out wtf they did to undo it all.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I pressed the turbo button

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm convinced that button did nothing

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It did. You used it to make your CPU slower for old timing-dependent games

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So its unturbo really?

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, they probably inverted it because it's weird to market a “slow” button

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago

My 386 had turbo on practically all the time except when playing earlier era games where half speed made them playable

It really was an unturbo button

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 months ago

"listen here you little shit"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I press my belly button.

[–] unodostres@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

Power move

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