From Dictation.
You may safely ignore this rent. Once again I, geek9pm, M on a rant about something that nobody else thinks is important. In a nutshell here is what I believe:
I have the right to unplug any appliance anytime I want to.I get tired of these things saying we this plug-in only that plug-in because if I don't something very bad will happen. Like could miss an update or an advertisement or some kind of annoyance that other people think I need. I unplugged my electrical devices whenever I want because I want to. I don't need a reason. They are mine and if I wish to I can unplug them. That is why they have plugs on them.
Think about it, many things in your house do not have plugs on. For example, the lights in the ceiling. They are permanently wired in so that there is no way you can unplug them except to open up the fixture and physically undo the wires, which would present a shock hazard.
Electrical plugs, both here in United States and in other countries, having built in such a way that they are safe to plug and unplug my ordinary mortals that can make mistakes. The possibility of your being hurt by plugging in an electrical appliance or unplugging it, is very very small. The plugs are designed in such a way that the blades of the plug are not readily accessible to your fingers unless you make a deliberate effort to to try to touch them while plugging it in. So it's perfectly safe to unplugging appliance if you grip it by the plastic handle that was made for that purpose. Of course, you don't want to gesture, cord, that might damage the court. But it is always safe and wise to use the plastic molded plug to unplug the electrical device from the main outlet.
You know what ticked me off about this ? It was my almost noon Canon printer that I've had for a long time and it now decides to chide me for turning off the power.
In my computer room I have to power strips that has switches on them for the express purpose of turning off power to all my devices. I can turn off my monitors, my computers, my printers and my routers. In some cases a mono have one of each, but that's beside the point. Whether I have one or two or more of the device, I might decide to turn off the power to all of them with one simple gesture. I pushed the switch on my power strip and they all go off. Simple, reliable, and I believe completely safe.
Yet my Canon printer insist that something bad is going to happen because I did not tell the printer that the power was about to be shut off. It insists I have to press the power button on the printer before I turn it off.
Now if I ever really true, and of other men manufacturers were to follow the same sort of insane reasoning, then we would have a very difficult turn off procedure.
Imagine that you know could no longer use the power switch on your power strip to turn off everything at once. Instead, he had to go to your printer and press the button and wait. Next you have to go over to your monitor and press the button and wait and then you have to go over to your computer and press the button and wait and wait and wait for Windows to turn off. Then it is anything else in the room that needs to go off you would have to go over to it and press the button and wait. So far my coffee pot doesn't do that to me. My coffee pot will let me either use the switch on the coffee pot or just pull the plug from the wall. Yes, I know that pulling the plug from the wall in some cases can lead to unusual sparking. Still, it has been certified by the underwriters laboratories to be safe for that kind of situation. If not, they would've been a public campaign years ago telling people how to unplug their appliances. But there never was, because there is never a need for people to press some kind of a button and then wait.
So this is my protest. I have the right to unplug any electrical appliance in my house any time I want to without waiting for some piece of software or firmware to give me permission to turn the thing off.
All right, this is the end of my rent.
You don't need reply to this, is just my way of venting my frustration. Thank you for letting me post this on Computer Hope and please let it stay up for at least 24 hours. Thank you.
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