switching things on and off is getting harder
Several design patterns are conspiring to make it harder to switch things on, and off, and to take things up from standby. This is probably best done by example. I recently tried switching on a current macbook air. It had an empty battery and I had just connected power. I didn't know where the power button was supposed to be. I tried the fingerprint button in the corner, but nothing happened. At some point, some indicator may have appeared on the screen that it was charging. Later, I went back, and powering it on worked. So it can't power on from the live power connection, it has some minimum in the batter? Without any feedback from the device on what's happening, this is squidgy. Same with a thinkpad x1 carbon (8th gen) here. Thinkpads used to last weeks powered off, but they now have some standby thing that drains the battery. Power button is a bit more guessable here, but still not well marked. That it's charging is in...