I guess that's why they call it "booting"
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I can still hear/feel the gradual effect followed with the iconic "click"
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).
Never put your PC on the floor unless it's your company's shitty workstation tower that really needs to be replaced.
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
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.
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
I still do it bro
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.
mine was an actual heavy-ass switch. it felt like shutting down the power of an entire neighborhood.
And a turbo button
Made you feel something killing your pc.
Yeah mine had switches on it to power all the peripherals too, and they lit up bright orange.
That sounds so cool
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.
Kids these days with their 5% overclocks.
Back in my day we had 100% overclocks!
This brings out nostalgia...
You might have meant it as a joke but just in case someone else isn't aware, this button actually made your CPU slower 🤓
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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
Hey man, as long as it’s consensual…
When I was younger I had a computer where the front fell off and stripped the wires from the button.
To turn it on and off I had to hold the wires together, felt like I was hot wiring a car every time.
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I still do it except its my UPS
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