I still do, why should it have changed?
Button is on the top now 😔
And too small for my big ass toe
More people use laptops (or even tablets or smartphones) more of the time nowadays, so fewer people turn on their devices that way nowadays.
I still use my toes for my laptop but the people in my office are so weird about it
mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
And a turbo button
Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.
Made you feel something killing your pc.
That sounds so cool
I guess that’s why they call it “booting”
Nine times out of ten I’d hit the turbo button and then spend half an hour wondering why the family computer was running slowly…
Hey now. Most of these people don’t know about turbo…
They certainly don’t know about the “magic/more magic” button…
I thought that was a switch?
Might have been. The way I heard it, the toggle was a button, like the turbo button.
Ah, that nice 33 -> 66 change
mine had a button cap and dad used to joke that he bought it on black market and it originates from the nuclear missile launch button.
That button cap is important with a lot of kids around.
makes sense. never thought about that from this standpoint. I had a tendency of pushing random buttons when I was a kid so that’s probably why the cap.
I still do it bro
I can still hear/feel the gradual effect followed with the iconic “click”
And all the loud noises of the giant components used to be in such PCs 🤭
Hey man, as long as it’s consensual…
What was the big-toe-sized button for it fnot for the big to- you know what, I don’t think I wanna know.
I still turn my computer like that most of the time.
Do people not still do this? People must still have towers, and they must have on buttons, right?
I’ve not built a tower in a good few years now so maybe I’m out of touch and they’re all voice activated now or use DNA scanners from Gattaca idk xD
People learned that computer cases shouldn’t go on the ground, unless you want them to be a dust magnet (especially if you have a case with intakes on the bottom for the GPU).
I have a tower but it’s on my desk (and the button is on the top facing the ceiling) so using my foot to turn it in would be a slight issue lol
Flexibility training.
People tend to have laptops these days, only gamers need towers but gamers don’t want their PC to be Vacuum cleaner neither.
Never put your PC on the floor unless it’s your company’s shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
I got one of those Mac minis and the button is on the bottom!
Apple is pretty shitty at design though especially for a company so renowned for design haha.
I have a bunch of mini Linux computers too and they have mostly normal buttons but they are tiny. Probably too tiny for toes.
It’s still the 2000’s so I still do
I did that till my i used my desktop till 2019
I don’t think I’ve seen these words assorted in this order before.
I have moved from office use desktop to gaming laptop to gaming laptop emulated desktop (laptop connected to monitor) since then never ever used a desktop again
This brings back memories. I’d turn on my big ass HP with my foot and its bright blue LED power button would light up the room.
Blue?
Look at Mr fancy pants over here with blue power indicators on their childhood computer.
Most of us made due with red, or if you were lucky, green.
Yellow was also an option
Yellow LEDs annoy me. Our traffic lights used to be red, amber, and green. Now they’re LED amber lights have been replaced with yellow
That’s fair.
All HP desktops that competed with Dell Dimensions in 2003 had a big blue led button. It was a common trope to put blue leds on everything back then. It’s nothing special. https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fc1.neweggimages.com%2Fproductimage%2Fnb640%2F83-102-233-01.jpg&f=1&ipt=4deaeb006298186c0cbf8cf25ce53b9e20547c1faaa11aead6ee846a03363867
When I was a kid, first using computers in the mid 1980s, blue LEDs were considered to be impossible to make.
So my basic bitch IBM clone only had red indicator lights.
The implication is that people who grew up with newer technology had stuff that was fancier than the stuff older generations had, which is objectively true.
I’m sorry that you didn’t get the joke, and I’m sorry that I had to explain it to you.
Good luck with life, seems like you’ll need it.
I still do it except its my UPS
