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M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is ridiclous

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

You raise a good point

Honestly for me it's muscle memory from the Windows 95 days of "it is now safe to turn off your computer" but I also don't trust the OS to correctly interpret the ACPI signal sent by the power button 100% of the time. Obviously I'm not an average user, but I could see where an average user might consistently single press the power button to turn off a computer