Hey y’all, my dad bought a laptop, and there is this button that we can’t figure out what it is. Have any of you encountered it before?
Hey y’all, my dad bought a laptop, and there is this button that we can’t figure out what it is. Have any of you encountered it before?
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A laptop brand/model would be helpful
Brand/Model?
Make/Model of laptop?
You can probably look in the user manual
If you turn this picture upside down, it looks like someone whose face has been censored with a bar over their eyes. So I’d say it toggles a privacy feature.
They could be smoking a cigar instead, though. Try to see if you can spot any mafia boss behaviour after pressing it.
Fingerprint scanner?
Well part of it is a standard power button logo, so it might have to do with that somehow.
Looks like the power symbol and an hourglass combined, so if I had to take a wild guess, probably a sleep button
Probably hibernate since it’s a modified power symbol.
Model?
Press it and find out.
Self destruct HD in case your captured
The laptop came with no manual or documentation?
The best way to find out is to press it. I haven’t had one blow up in my face… yet.
You go back in time
That’s a Dell [LATITUDE ON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON) button.
Essentially a lightweight operating system (custom Linux distro) for basic tasks.
Teleport button. Try it.
It’s an alternate power button that boots the laptop into a low power mode to run a light Linux distro that’s installed onto a separate storage chip.
It’s meant to allow you to do basic tasks if you don’t want to boot Windows.
If power cycling had an icon
That’s a button to turn the laptop on with Dell Latitude On. It was a lighter operating system that could theoretically boot faster than windows, and allow you to do basic PC stuff while conserving battery power. Some laptops that had Latitude On actually had an entire other low-power computer inside them to run it, although others just had the Latitude On OS hidden on a partition of the hard drive.
Here’s a really good video about it from Cathode Ray Dude: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSoKyMMIxso](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSoKyMMIxso)
Infinite power!!!
That button causes 17 nukes to go off
I saw this in “The Net”. Don’t push it.
Finally watching a guy speak about fast power on operating systems for hours on end has become useful
There is some ancient text called “manual” that might have the answer to this ancient symbol.
I see power and infinity, it must be the Sheev Palpatine button. “UNLIMITED POWERRRRRRR”
Looks like it’s the “Almost Infinite Power Button”
Gives you just enough power to not have it infinitely.
RTFM
That’s the ole dick twist button
This is how you enable infinity from jujutsu kaisen
**Latitude ON** is an instant-on computer system made by Dell. Its a lightweight Linux OS just for browsing, when you dont want to fully use your laptop.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude_ON)
thats the fish button
That’s the time loop button.
Eject button!
Thank you for circling it. I don’t think I would have been able to find it otherwise
That’s the thrubo
The laptop didn’t come with a manual? Why are people so against reading the manual, it usually tells just about everything you need to know.
It’s the button for infinite time. Somethings we use after time traveling is invented
That’s a super-pro-ultra-gaming button. Press it and you’ll become so OP you’ll be automatically banned.
… I honestly dunno.