On Wed 29 Jun 2022 at 20:49:40 (+0200), [email protected] wrote: > On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 08:42:44PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Will Mengarini wrote: > > > I feel old. > > > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/Big-Red-Switch.html > > > > Me too. This button pressing for shutdown frightens me. > > Two years ago i had to craft a molly-guard for the on-off-button > > on top of this box: > > > > https://static3.caseking.de/media/image/thumbnail/geph-004_geph_004_05_800x800.jpg > > > > I cut a small piece from the transparent lid of a CD case and rasped > > it to have elegantly rounded corners. A stripe of transparent tape > > serves as hinge. It's not obscuring the blueish light ring around the > > button and the disk activity LED in the little hole but still highly > > safe against human error. > > Nice :-)
My problem was the opposite on this laptop (Dell D430): https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/rechts_wlan_offen.jpg If anything touched that button, it would boot up while, say, closed, padded, and packed in a rucsac. And it ran very hot at the best of times. > You could teach your operating system to ignore the ACPI event, then > you'd have to lean on the button for three interminable seconds to > havoc your file system (although file systems tend to take hard > shutdowns without too much fuss these days, ah, they don't build > things like they used to ;-) What I would have liked is a default Grub entry that just shutdown again if no key was pressed (which couldn't happen of course while the laptop was closed up). > > Note that the manufacturer took care to armor the USB sockets and the > > Reset button by a sturdy hatch. Ah, I haven't seen a reset button for twenty years. The first thing I used to do whenever I acquired a PC was to disconnect its little reset cable from the connector on the motherboard. Cheers, David.
