| ▲ | crazygringo 24 days ago |
| I don't think they know what Ctrl+Alt+Delete means. They want to restart it? They want to go to the screen where you can switch users or sign out? Do they think it's just a fancier way of saying delete? |
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| ▲ | jasonjayr 24 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete" |
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| ▲ | crazygringo 24 days ago | parent | next [-] | | That's more charitable. Alt is still short for Alternate though, not Alter. | | |
| ▲ | YeGoblynQueenne 24 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I thought "Alt" in the title is meant in the sense of "stop", as in "halt", but on second thoughts maybe that only works in French (where h is always silent)? | | |
| ▲ | viccis 24 days ago | parent [-] | | It's clearly meant to be part of the Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence that interrupts Windows computers to bring up the task manager. | | |
| ▲ | crazygringo 24 days ago | parent | next [-] | | But doesn't Ctrl+Alt+Del bring up the screen to switch users or sign out? "Task Manager" is one item in the list of options you get, but it's not the main one or anything, in fact it's the last: https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/hzx6btMYEqZJfSAL3WVxXuW3-jw=/1... | | |
| ▲ | aaronmdjones 24 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The author may just be showing their age a bit. That's what Ctrl+Alt+Del does on modern versions of Windows, but from Windows 95 to Windows XP (inclusive) it directly launched the Task Manager. | | |
| ▲ | tosti 23 days ago | parent [-] | | Ctrl+Alt+Del on an IBM PC or a compatible clone reboots the machine no questions asked. There's a dedicated reset button in case that fails. Doing anything other than a reboot started with protected mode MS-Windows 3.1 IIRC (then marketed as "386 enhanced mode"). | | |
| ▲ | aaronmdjones 23 days ago | parent [-] | | Yeah; in Windows 3.1, Ctrl+Alt+Del took you to a blue screen that allowed you to kill an unresponsive task (but didn't display a list of tasks; the Task List was launched with Ctrl+Esc), or told you there was no such task to kill if there wasn't. Before Windows 3.1 it just rebooted the machine as you described. Launching Task Manager was the 95 to XP behaviour, but NT behaved differently -- even Windows NT 4.0 (developed alongside Windows 95) took you to the security screen with Ctrl+Alt+Del (something that would later be ported to Vista), where launching Task Manager was one of its options. These OSes weren't used residentially though, until Windows 2000 attempted to merge their lineages and Windows XP finally cemented the deal. |
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| ▲ | NekkoDroid 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Would have made more sense to say Ctrl+Shift+Esc since that just directly brings up the task manager. All in all I would say it is a slightly weird title, but I assume enough people get what they want to say with it. |
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| ▲ | YeGoblynQueenne 22 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes, but I thought they were making a colourful pune or play on words. |
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| ▲ | zoky 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate |
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| ▲ | lysace 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | That's bullshit (IMO) and the post author (Phillip Torrone - I believe that's one of the owners of Adafruit) is obviously ignorant in this regard. That said, what he's actually talking about in the post makes a lot of sense. That is the important part. |
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| ▲ | dylan604 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I was going to post a similar comment, and then decided against it. I realized I haven't used Windows as a daily driver in decades and thought maybe there was a new use for it that I was not familiar. Glad to see I wasn't the only one confused by it. Closest I could come was they were going to lock out the user, but that was Windows-L or something wasn't it? |
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| ▲ | estimator7292 24 days ago | parent [-] | | Meta+L is the lock hotkey on all major operating systems! | | |
| ▲ | bsimpson 24 days ago | parent [-] | | ??? Cmd+L is "go-to location bar" on Mac. Opt+L is ¬. Ctrl+L doesn't seem to do anything. "Lock screen" is Cmd+Shift+Q. |
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| ▲ | rdiddly 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Reminds me of people who think penultimate is just super-duper-ultimate. |
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| ▲ | viccis 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It has been used as an idiom to mean stopping or restarting something (the former in this case) for decades: https://wordspy.com/words/ctrl-alt-delete/ I think it's because most people associate Ctrl-Alt-Del with the process of terminating a process, so they use the key sequence itself to refer to the act of terminating something. |
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| ▲ | crazygringo 24 days ago | parent [-] | | It means restart. It has never meant stop. Even the link you provide says: > n. A metaphoric mechanism with which one can reset, restart, or rethink something. That's what's confusing. The headline makes no sense because it's not about restarting. | | |
| ▲ | viccis 23 days ago | parent [-] | | The first example: >It's time to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete on the computerized Bowl Championship Series. Or should we now call it the Bowl Split-Championship Series? |
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| ▲ | nine_k 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Alter the control, and delete! In modern Windows, the three-key salute is a way to lock your session securely. Maybe that's what they mean: locking it up? |
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| ▲ | forgetfulness 24 days ago | parent [-] | | It brings up the Task Manager, that lets you forcibly stop processes, and this is a way for the (NY State) Government to take control of your printer, the analogy isn't bad. | | |
| ▲ | nine_k 24 days ago | parent [-] | | This is what Shift+Ctrl+Esc does. | | |
| ▲ | forgetfulness 24 days ago | parent [-] | | I'm behind the times! That's what it used to be until Windows XP, the last Windows version I used on a daily basis was Windows 2000 up to 2005. | | |
| ▲ | AnssiH 23 days ago | parent [-] | | On Windows XP this depended on whether you had joined a domain. On joined systems you got the security screen (same as previous Windows NT/2000), on other systems the task manager (same as Windows 9x). |
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| ▲ | dfxm12 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I don't think there's a reading that suggests it's a good thing for 3D printers. The rest of the page confirms that. |
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| ▲ | amelius 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Maybe we should just install this keypad on our printers and be done with it: https://www.vectorstock.com/royalty-free-vector/ctrl-alt-del... |
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| ▲ | saltmate 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Does it really matter what "they know"? It seems like the entire post is written by an LLM. |
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| ▲ | sdsd 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Open process manager to force an unresponsive program to close. This has been part of popular lexicon for decades. Eg from the song Death to Los Campesinos, "I'll be ctrl-alt-deleting your face with no reservations" |
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| ▲ | bombcar 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Hey, it's similar to Weird Al's song: Play me online? Well, you know that I'll beat you If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you |
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| ▲ | zootboy 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Perhaps they were using Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the Task Manager so that they can kill an unruly process? |
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| ▲ | RajT88 24 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is more like installing anti-virus on your 3d printer. |
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| ▲ | kstrauser 24 days ago | parent [-] | | I don’t want an antivirus on my (hypothetical because I don’t have one) 3D printer. I want it to dumbly print whatever it is I send to it. | | |
| ▲ | ryandrake 24 days ago | parent [-] | | I want all my tools to dumbly operate on whatever I'm working on. Imagine if lathes were required to try to guess whether you're reboring a rifle barrel and stopped themselves from running. Or if a bandsaw had to detect whether what you are cutting was gun shaped. Totally ridiculous. [EDIT: Looks like these examples were already brought up in the article, since they're obvious] | | |
| ▲ | kstrauser 24 days ago | parent [-] | | But you’re OK with a screwdriver that could be used to assemble a gun without even checking what it’s torquing? /s |
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| ▲ | analog31 24 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It's the same as control open-apple reset. |
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