After getting a comment from the creator of kanata (an awesome piece of software by the way) that he found my story amusing, I figured that I’d also post it here, partly as fun, partly as a cautionary tale. Also, I’d appreciate any tips as to what to check for in my system, it’s a weird feeling to know that some stuff might have been messed up under the hood.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve had instances of stuff happening without my input (never malicious, just a messed up input device or some weird stuff getting buffered) and power cycling has always been my first instinct. Power down, remove all peripherals and network connections, power back up, start diagnosing.

    So yay me, I guess?

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      1 year ago

      Sometimes Windows (on laptop) decides to drop a key release, meaning I have to figure out how to restart while (e.g.) Esc is being held down.

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        1 year ago

        I find yanking power cables tends to pretty reliably power cycle a device.

        I mean, yeah, it can also make your storage a bit upset, but rarely in a major way and if you are not in control of your machine that’s still the lesser evil, potentially. Especially if you back up your data.

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          1 year ago

          Laptop, so it’s a bit harder to pull the power cable. The default power button behavior is to hibernate, which usually finishes shutting down before a hard shutdown can trigger and doesn’t fix that.