• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 day ago

    I’ve noticed that where we could previously hold a power button for ~3s to shut down devices, now they’re more like 8-10s. I work in IT and every person who calls and says they couldn’t shutdown their computer has the same outcome: I tell them to watch a clock or watch for ten seconds while holding the button. Works every time. Super annoying after people were trained for over a decade and a half how this should work.

    • loweffortname@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      6 hours ago

      I remember doing IT in 2002(ish) and the mantra was “hold the power button for 8 Seconds, like that movie with Luke Perry.”

      It seemed to vary how quickly they would shut down, but I remember (and it’s been 20+ years so the memory is vague, and I’m not immediately finding any supporting evidence) this being considered some type of international standard?

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      1 day ago

      Kind of a big scene in ‘andor’ where

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      The fascist intelligence analyst who’s sort of the main antagonist is being chewed up and spit out for trying too hard and taking initiative when she really shouldn’t have, in a situation where a bunch of people sucked in ways that let the good guys do a thing, but she’s the one who tried to be an individual. She gets a Bad Ending because of it. This is her boss’s boss telling her shes supposed to be a tool, pressing her head like a button as it dawns on her how badly she fucked up.