i learned another completely unnecessary thing about windows so I'm sharing it

apparently every version of windows since at least 7 (i don't have a vista install to check) has had an "emergency restart" option if you go to the ctrl-alt-delete screen and click the power options button while holding control

It calls the NtSetSystemPowerState function which is normally called at the very end of the shutdown process after everything has already been stopped and is the function that turns everything off and kills the kernel so it's basically an almost instant power off

i don't know what the point of this is i mean you could just hold down the power button or throw it out the window or something

Cool #feditips

- If you're an asshole people might not like you so don't do that
- There seems to be a lot of gay people here so if you want to be more popular consider being gay
- running your own instance is a bitch so don't do it unless you really want to be responsible for destroying other people's accounts because it was all running on a single 5400rpm laptop drive from 2007 and you didn't make backups
- don't use the official mastodon app as they somehow fucked up dark mode
- a good trick for engagement is to post when your followers are awake
- drink plenty of water

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