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by octoberfranklin 1564 days ago
"Turns off when I tell it to and does not disobey me" is part of "safe".
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I've never seen a machine disobey the long-press, though it's probably happened before to someone.

Anyway, I'd rather avoid accidents.

We have some Lenovo ThinkPad X1 laptops that disobey the long-press. They get stuck in a state where they are turned on but appear off and nothing works. The only way to get them out of that state is the reset hole. Supposedly it's a motherboard fault, but they've replaced the motherboards repeatedly and it still happens.
My HP ZBook once crashed also somehow and I had to remove the battery. I was not the only guy in the office with this problem.