This Is So... *Something* That It Deserves Its Own Post

[bonelesspuppy]

After I spent a couple hours fiddling with configuration settings and command lines and learning more than I ever thought possible about wireless networking in Ubuntu, guess what I saw on the front of the laptop, down on the left side

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[mankiller]

You will learn to love that button: It's a great way to "pull the plug", so to speak, on your computer's All-Seeing and potentially All-Getting-Poked Eye to the Internet. But it can cause some frustrations.

I'd also be wary of keyboard brightness adjustments. Those can cause confusion.

[bonelesspuppy]

Oh, that button and are already good friends, especially when I want to save battery power while I'm doing stuff offline. I just wish it had, you know, bitten my finger or something at first to announce its presence.