Awake now

[james_davis_nicoll]

Turned on my laptop, it ran for a bit and then went black. Totally unresponsive.

Took me a while to notice someone had in a fit of safety consciousness disconnected my laptop power cord. The little old lady I help take care of worries that plugged in electronics will burst into fire so she sometimes disconnects stuff.

At least it wasn't an external drive mid-backup.

Comments

[profiterole_reads]

I mean, it's been known to happen. It's better to disconnect the power cord at night.

[glaurung]

The battery meter in the lower right of the screen is your friend.

[magedragonfire]

Oh no! I mean, she’s not wrong, but usually (usually, I say, looking at Lenovo and Toshiba) laptop chargers are on the safer side?

[dormouse1953]

Back in the seventies, I was involved with testing a new computer system to be used for electric power grid control. The final test was that it had to run 100 hours without rebooting. Friday morning, with five hours to do, a cleaner came in and and unplugged the computer to plug in his vacuum. The guy in charge of the software team tried to claim it would have kept going if it hadn't been unplugged. We weren't buying it.