I had to disconnect power button from mobo because my room mate's cat would just shut it off, luckily I had a case whose side panel was very easy to open with a hinge, so I tied two cables near the latch and to turn it in, I'd turn the latch open the case, quickly short the cables and close the panel and latch.

Thanks for reminding me of that. Also I swear that cat knew what I did and kept trying to open the latch for a few months before giving up.

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Same with me but I have a toddler. Windows has a power button setting that I switched to do nothing when pressed.

[–] brap@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I almost did, but instead connected one pin from the reset button and one from the power button to the power header, then bridged the other two connectors making it so I have to push both to fire it up. Easy for me to operate, and he’s still not figured it out haha.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 4 points 1 week ago

That is genius, I wish I was that smart.

[–] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 7 points 1 week ago

I was on Linux mint XFCE at that time and even though it had a setting to decide what to do when power button is pressed but it was broken and would reset itself every few hours.

[–] hash@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

She knows the power she holds.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You could install a second power switch inline with the first. If both are momentary contact then you’d have to press both at the same time to turn it on(or hold one, etc).

I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this. Toggle it on then press the normal button. You could leave it on to keep the regular button working or toggle it off and disable it.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

We used to call those missile switches. Probably still do

Ed. A search on my local electronic components shop's site returned nothing on a search, but scrolling the 211 items in category "switches" found a missile switch cover (to suit toggle switches) as #86, so yes, we still do

Ed the second. Thingiverse shows many printable missile switch covers for diverse switch types

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 week ago

I’ve never actually needed on of these but they keep showing up in movies/games…so I’d vote this

Sounds like you need a small electrical project then!

[–] M137@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I've had that issue in several ways. Of course what you said, had an extension cord with a switch below my desk and I kept accidentally hitting that switch in the same way, lived in an apartment some years ago that had some shitty electrical work done by the previous tenant and if I had enough lamps on while my computer and screen where on and I tried to plug in my phone or turn the TV on the circuit popped, and most recently I've been playing games via cloud streaming (Shadow) and my Ethernet cable has lost the security tab thingy on both ends and I keep accidentally moving other cables so they touch the Ethernet cable and it falls out. Most of the time I can just put it back in an reconnect to the cloud computer but sometimes it just refuses to do that so the cloud computer shuts down before I'm able to get it working. Lost several hours of progress in various games throughout the past couple of years, but I never buy anything new unless it's absolutely needed so I just live with and accept it '^^

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For a very long time it's been possible to set what the button is doing and it'd only cause a hard shut down if you hold it down for like 5 seconds.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 days ago

The cat might manage 5 seconds, or even the 11 seconds that usually overrides any settings