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[–] [email protected] 145 points 9 months ago (7 children)

It is now safe to turn off your computer

[–] DannyMac 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid 18 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And then there was the worst sight in the world...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

Glad you didn’t embed the worst site in the world.

“Scars from Ogrish run deep“, the kids wouldn’t know

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

Oh no! I wonder what the numbers mean. Looks like a hex dump of a 32-bit integer, probably an error code given that the number is so small.

[–] FlyingSquid 7 points 9 months ago

It means "your Mac is dead. Buy a new computer."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

[–] Passerby6497 11 points 9 months ago

Oh man, I still remember when Windows finally powered your computer off when you shut down. My poor Nana spent half an hour trying to turn off my uncle's computer because she kept hitting the power button just after that showed up (as was tradition) but after the computer transitioned to power off, so it just kept turning on.

[–] mPony 9 points 9 months ago

I edited the file to change 'now' to 'not' just for grins.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I remember exiting Windows 3.1 to the MSDOS command prompt and then shutting down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm not old enough to know this one.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

Old computers wouldn't turn themselves off, they had no mechanism to control whether they remained on. Power was controlled by a heavy duty switch on the side of the PC (some manufacturers moved it to the front or something too, but many had it on the side/back).

When ATX became a thing, power controls were done by a trigger wire from the main board to tell the PSU to turn on fully. This is how things are still done. With 80+ Silver/gold/whatever rated PSUs they actually don't really turn off anymore, power draw just drops to next to nothing when the system is "off".

The hardware switch would physically disconnect the power to the PSU. So when you shut down, this message was displayed, most notably by Windows 9x, to inform you that it had finished the shutdown process and you could flick the switch to turn the power off, and it wouldn't cause any damage to the system.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not young enough to know what "cap" and "no cap" mean

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You have awakened a distant memory I forgot I had.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Accidentally hard rebooting the PC with the tip of your shoe because you wanted to readjust your seating…