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Comment by TacticalCoder

9 days ago

Very interesting timing: a few days ago I created one in OpenSCAD for myself and my... daughter (not named "Molly" though) would accidentally hit my PC's power button all too often while plugging in a USB device.

For the power button is located next to two USB ports I use and, for whatever reason and although it's a very good PC tower, the button is ultra sensitive.

So I created a "not-molly guard" that "plugs" into the two audio jacks (which I never use and which are, also, next to the power button) and that only leaves a narrow hole and a guardrail of a few millimeters.

Printing it in black, matching the tower's lip where the power button is, and life is good. Already hit that Molly guard several times by mistake so I figured out I already saved more time than it took to design it.

As it's a small piece, it printed in a few minutes on the 3D printer.

P.S: AFAICT there's no software setting (?) to prevent the power button from doing what it does!? But who cares, I've got the Molly guard now.

You can generally configure the power button to require a 5s press or to suspend the computer in the motherboard's firmware UI (UEFI/BIOS).