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One item on that list I cannot understand: Ctrl-Command-Power does an immediate reboot. Loses any unsaved documents. Doesn't shut down cleanly so potentially d

One item on that list I cannot understand: Ctrl-Command-Power does an immediate reboot. Loses any unsaved documents. Doesn't shut down cleanly so potentially damages the filesystem. No "are you sure?". That's great: they thought the feature of "damage your computer" was so useful they should make a keyboard shortcut for it. It's one key away from Alt-Command-Power which I use all the time to put the computer to sleep. So the feature is not only convenient, it's very "discoverable". I certainly discovered it yesterday. Windows laptops solve the problem by making you hold down the power button for 5 seconds, to prevent you from doing it accidentally. WTF Apple. That’s just insane.

PascLeRasc 6y ago
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- dvtrn 6y ago
  Those should be illegal. Surely hyperbole for a few chuckles, right?
- the_af 6y ago
  It takes a lot to type "sudo reboot" by mistake. Shortcut key combinations are something you can press by mistake, especially since there are so many of them and you can be absent-mindedly thinking of a different combination!
dognotdog 6y ago
I have never, in the past at least 15ish years of working daily on a mac, triggered this accidentally. But, I have needed to perform it a handful of times.
- neonblurb 6y ago
  More than 23 years here. And 23 years ago I used it an awful lot more in the dark days of System 7 with no protected memory and cooperative multitasking.
userbinator 6y ago
It's one key away from Alt-Command-Power which I use all the time to put the computer to sleep. (Not a Mac user.) What does (short-)pressing the power button do? On Windows, the default action for that is usually sleep, and as you noted, a long-press is a hard poweroff (that's done in hardware directly, the short-press is just an ACPI signal to the software.)
- jeffhuys 6y ago
  >What does (short-)pressing the power button do? It goes to sleep.
- chadlavi 6y ago
  I think a short press on the power button sleeps the machine, but usually the keyboard command I used for that is [close lid].
- adrianmsmith 6y ago
  The originally posted link states: > Power button: Press to turn on your Mac or wake it from sleep. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds to put your Mac to sleep. Continue holding to force your Mac to turn off.

PascLeRasc 6y ago

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dvtrn 6y ago
Those should be illegal. Surely hyperbole for a few chuckles, right?
the_af 6y ago
It takes a lot to type "sudo reboot" by mistake. Shortcut key combinations are something you can press by mistake, especially since there are so many of them and you can be absent-mindedly thinking of a different combination!

dognotdog 6y ago

I have never, in the past at least 15ish years of working daily on a mac, triggered this accidentally. But, I have needed to perform it a handful of times.

neonblurb 6y ago
More than 23 years here. And 23 years ago I used it an awful lot more in the dark days of System 7 with no protected memory and cooperative multitasking.

userbinator 6y ago

It's one key away from Alt-Command-Power which I use all the time to put the computer to sleep. (Not a Mac user.) What does (short-)pressing the power button do? On Windows, the default action for that is usually sleep, and as you noted, a long-press is a hard poweroff (that's done in hardware directly, the short-press is just an ACPI signal to the software.)

jeffhuys 6y ago
>What does (short-)pressing the power button do? It goes to sleep.
chadlavi 6y ago
I think a short press on the power button sleeps the machine, but usually the keyboard command I used for that is [close lid].
adrianmsmith 6y ago
The originally posted link states: > Power button: Press to turn on your Mac or wake it from sleep. Press and hold for 1.5 seconds to put your Mac to sleep. Continue holding to force your Mac to turn off.