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[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 91 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Power button? Reset button? PSU switch? Clear CMOS button?

Let's try and press them all!

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 28 points 1 month ago

LUKS header disk emergency destroy button? *boop!

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago

*rings doorbell*

[–] cRazi_man@europe.pub 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I pressed the button next to the power socket on the wall.

[–] JelleWho@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The Bri'Ish Matey.

[–] OddMinus1@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

I pressed my jacket button.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 68 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's why there's a distinction between buttons and keys

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's just shit design. Even on keyboards with Power button I've seen, they're usually distinctly shaped and coloured.

[–] Gerblat@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

“Oh, I’ll need this info later, I better take a screenshot”

fatfingers the power button

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Me trying to press F12 in the dark

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I love these fuckin laptops that put the power button somewhere random in the middle of the keyboard where you might accidentally press.

I can’t imagine what goes through the mind of the genius who came up with this shit. Im guessing it was some guy who worked his way up to middle management in a Chinese manufacturing sweatshop, and then managed to sell clients on the idea that they could cut costs because he knew a quick hack to run the wires to the power supply.

[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow, I don't think I've ever seen such a tiny backspace key.

[–] UnrepentantAlgebra@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

More like a back-no-space key

[–] youcantreadthis@quokk.au 11 points 1 month ago

Just pressed my car key its very loud

[–] MrSelfDestruct@lemmy.zip 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

Oooh, I think I'll order a Tab.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The late comic strip User Friendly did this best back in the day. To the point that its take on it is currently the example on its Wikipedia page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Friendly

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like the comic. Made me lol. The site is down and the domain unavailable. Where can I get he 13 years worth of comics?

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Internet Archive has a 184MB .cbz file that allegedly contains them all here: https://archive.org/download/user-friendly-comic. Likewise, much of the site itself is archived there.

Be aware that they're not all going to be winners like the A-N-Y strip is.

[–] fraksken@infosec.pub 1 points 1 month ago

🥰 thanks

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 month ago

Me: presses button on shirt

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about the Turbo button?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is this 1992? Where’s my dinosaur? Will someone go to prom with me?

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just rollerblade over to my house, we'll play some Super Nintendo and drink Mello Yello.

[–] bisby@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Remember ALF? He's back. In pog form.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now he's just pushing the IT guy's buttons

[–] WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 month ago

You’re really pressing his buttons there

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Press enter to continue

Presses x.

Huhuhuhihiuh it still works stupid developer huhuhu🦭🦭🦭

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

taps ctrl and shift repeatedly.

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 8 points 1 month ago

Its worst when you ask ppl how they got in this situation and they go I dk "the last person told me to do this" knowing full well no they didnt and I have to spend an hour figurjng out wtf they did to undo it all.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I pressed the turbo button

[–] hateisreality@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm convinced that button did nothing

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

My computer was just that slow

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love that guy's face, I can't NOT laugh. Damn, what's the name of the movie again??

[–] childOfMagenta@jlai.lu 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Never seen it but Monster House it seems.

[–] borth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Yess! Thank you!

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

"listen here you little shit"

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I press my belly button.

[–] unodostres@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 weeks ago