The Power Button of my PC broke ⚠️
  • 19 points Ikebear2

    All it needs now is a milspec ultra durable waterproof carbon fibre and steel reinforced casing with a tough heavily insulated cable designed to withstand accidental pulling of force up to 100000N incase it were to be mistakenly attached to a car.

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    8 points Jan_Spontan

    Absolutely! Reliability is a must. Just imagine what would you do if you can't use your computer when your neighbor blows a nuke in his living room. Better safe than sorry

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    5 points Ikebear2

    A nuke going off near the device is a possibility but the likelihood is reasonably low so it would be best to focus the development costs towards implementing a self destruct function in the event that the device may be commandeered by isis insurgents. We would need at least 5 levels of failsafe and a minimum factor of safety of 7000

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    3 points livesparks

    I was honestly thinking about implementing a way for me to send console commands remotely for the purposes of locking down the computer.

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    1 points livesparks

    I do have a satellite tv, it's just a matter of reverse engineering their protocols and backpacking off of their infrastructure.

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  • 3 points s_k_o

    ESP_Power_Button repo is 404 for me on github. Can you make it public? Would like to take a look at the code.

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    5 points livesparks

    Just made it public. Sorry about that, I was so sure this time that I hadn't messed up anything. Thanks for pointing it out.

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    2 points s_k_o

    Got it now, thanks!

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  • 3 points zsdonny

    honestly the ability to remotely turn on a pc is super cool and practical for server use case

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    3 points livesparks

    Hmmm.... For a server, I would think that Wake-on-LAN would be a better option.

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    2 points zsdonny

    having a separate power switch physical device work better as a failsafe though (e.g. the esp could be on a separate network while the server network card failed)

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    1 points FuzzTonez

    iLO, iDRAC, WoL, etc

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  • 2 points memecaptial

    Slapbox

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  • 2 points GAstudiosYT

    Anyway... how did they code with thier pc broken

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    2 points livesparks

    Used a screwdriver to short the power button contacts to turn it on.

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  • 2 points Guy2933

    WOL Exists lmao

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  • 1 points livesparks

    Full Video Here.

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  • 1 points [deleted]

    Next Level pranking co-workers

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