On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 6:38 PM Solomon Peachy <pi...@shaftnet.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:34:03AM +0300, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > > Why wouldn't it be appropriate for a system running on battery power? > > I've personally had this happen to me several times, where (far more > improtantly than the battery) a laptop tucked into a confined sleeve got > inadvertantly powered on and essentially baked itself while sitting at > that password prompt. > > So, yes, powering off is a completely sensible thing to do.
This is an interesting example. It's such a significant liability (home fires and airplane fires are particularly bad), I wonder if manufacturers have heat and lid sensors feeding back to the firmware to force a poweroff in such a situation. And perhaps they do and no one is willing to test it (for all I know it's a temperature range that can cause hardware damage). From the limited examples so far, clearly manufacturers cannot trust that the operating system will ensure proper behavior, for any number of reasons. Or maybe they design the case to "reasonably" contain the smoldering left overs of what was your laptop. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
