#bigredbutton — Public Fediverse posts

Zoom accidentally 'shut down' their own domain, proving once again that even tech giants can't resist the allure of the big red button 🛑😂. Meanwhile, users everywhere enjoyed a sudden surge in productivity as meetings vanished into the void of internet incompetence 🌐💥.
https://status.zoom.us/incidents/pw9r9vnq5rvk #ZoomFail #TechHumor #ProductivityBoost #InternetOops #BigRedButton #HackerNews #ngated

Since we're telling #BigRedButton stories...

Very early in my career, I was a SOC monkey for a small local Internet & data center hosting provider. Our Big Red Button was mounted on the wall of the data center, just beyond the door, a little over 6' off the ground - low enough to reach up and hit it, high enough to avoid accidentally bumping into it... Or so we thought.

The company was small enough that our founder and CEO was still very hands-on - to the point that he was helping a brand-new employee carry a heavy server into the data center for installation one day. $newGuy - who was about 6'4" - walks backwards through the door into the data center, backs up against the wall so $CEO can swing the server around to go down the aisle... And hits the Big Red Button with the back of his head.

Instant unplanned production-outage-recovery drill, all hands on deck!

IIRC, our recovery procedure documentation improved a *lot* over the next few days. 🙄 $newGuy totally expected to be fired, but $CEO took full responsibility (one of the reasons I loved working there - the two founders were both fantastic people as well as visionary technogists). And the Big Red Button got a mollyguard, since "high enough to be out of the way" was clearly relative. 🤣

RE: https://dood.net/objects/6b030cfe-14d3-40b4-976a-5a08f0e1c72d
@rossgrady @lauren

Garage Door Opener Ejection Seat - [Scott Prints] had a familiar problem. His garage door opener was boring, and ratt... - https://hackaday.com/2022/11/05/garage-door-opener-ejection-seat/ #garagedooropener #bigredbutton #mischacks #carhacks #news

There is something satisfying about putting the #laptop to sleep by closing its lid.
Way more than pushing the power button, pressing a keyboard shortcut, or using the 'start' menu.
I think the only way to get a similar satisfactory feeling on a stationary computer would be to have a #BigRedButton, but those are generally more associated with a #KillSwitch, and thus would be an emergency shutdown, rather than a controlled sleep trigger...

Am I overthinking this? Probably 😅🤪