Alas, this doesn’t cover the ancient-but-amusing case, “Your washing-machine-sized hard drive is boogeying it across the floor like it thinks it’s at the disco.”
Alas, this doesn’t cover the ancient-but-amusing case, “Your washing-machine-sized hard drive is boogeying it across the floor like it thinks it’s at the disco.”
He’s obviously spending too much time on internal narration to want to talk to anyone else. 😜
Can you power it off from the command line without SSH? You may have a hardware problem that’s keeping the board from responding to soft poweroff at all.
Provided the machine isn’t writing to disk or holding unwritten data in a disk cache at the moment you press the button, you’re unlikely to damage anything with a hard poweroff.
Well, except the one who’s taken over the dojo, but I doubt we’ll see him very often.