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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

im a gardener. some apprentice who has never owned a computer, not bcs they couldnt afford it, but bcs due to mobile phones there simply is no need for it, asked me how to shut down a computer. not kidding. it wasnt even some obscure gnu/linux distro, it was bog-standard windows 10.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See, there is a bit of nuance to this. Windows has multiple shutdown states that make the computer appear off, but actually put the computer to sleep. The apprentice probably didn’t know that but this is lemmy and if I can’t “actually” someone with worthless information here, where can I?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminded me so much of Reddit comments that my blood pressure went up for a sec.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I can’t bait reactions on [email protected], where can I?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey boss, I want to shut down the computer, should I turn it off completely or do you prefer sleep, if yes which sleep state?

[–] Bytemeister 1 points 1 year ago

Pre Win98, you could just flip the power switch.