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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?

>>crazyg+(OP)
The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete"

>>jasonj+B
That's more charitable. Alt is still short for Alternate though, not Alter.

>>crazyg+(OP)
This is more like installing anti-virus on your 3d printer.

>>crazyg+(OP)
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?

>>crazyg+(OP)
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...

>>crazyg+X
I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate

>>crazyg+(OP)
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?

>>crazyg+(OP)
Reminds me of people who think penultimate is just super-duper-ultimate.

>>RajT88+11
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.

>>crazyg+(OP)
Does it really matter what "they know"? It seems like the entire post is written by an LLM.

>>crazyg+(OP)
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.

>>crazyg+(OP)
Perhaps they were using Ctrl-Alt-Del to get to the Task Manager so that they can kill an unruly process?

>>rdiddl+q2
"Irregardless"

>>nine_k+a1
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.

>>crazyg+X
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)?

>>kstrau+F2
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]

>>crazyg+(OP)
It's the same as control open-apple reset.

>>crazyg+(OP)
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

>>ryandr+b7
But you’re OK with a screwdriver that could be used to assemble a gun without even checking what it’s torquing? /s

>>rdiddl+q2
Or “epicenter”.

All prefixes eventually become intensifiers?

>>YeGobl+i6
It's clearly meant to be part of the Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence that interrupts Windows computers to bring up the task manager.

>>crazyg+(OP)
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.

>>forget+06
This is what Shift+Ctrl+Esc does.

>>viccis+Gn
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...

>>nine_k+lw
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.

>>crazyg+jG
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.

>>crazyg+(OP)
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"

>>jasonj+B
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.

>>viccis+jo
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.

>>crazyg+jG
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.

>>arrows+O5
The grammatically correct version is "Irredisregardless".

>>dylan6+a2
Meta+L is the lock hotkey on all major operating systems!

>>estima+Fl2
???

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.

>>forget+WI
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).

>>aaronm+7P1
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").

>>tosti+eg3
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.

>>crazyg+Lf1
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?