I cant shut down system settings which is all greyed out now. Wow. I can't shut down the computer. "System Settings Interrupted Shutdown".
I'm unplugging it.
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I took it off the network and booted it back up, opened settings, and I was this time able to turn off the switch, except it gave me a confirm popup, and the confirm was all in big red scary letters. I pressed on the big red scary letters and now...
.. well maybe it is off. Maybe it is pretending.
I feel like I'm playing Portal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
That's insane! 🥴😱
So while it is fun to tell the story like this, and I didn't intend to deceive, I don't acdtually think Apple's AI was trying to survive. I think this is more likely what actdually happened:
1. I clicked the switch to turn it off. But there was a lag and it didn't turn off so I clicked it again.
2. When I clicked it the first time, it created a popup, but that popup was quickly covered by the settings window when I clicked it again. Clicking it again turned it back on.
3. Everything was greyed out because it was waiting for me to respond to the covered-up popup.
4. Yet the second click did turn the switch back on, and that popup was holding everything up including shutdown, which is bad UX.
5. And the red lettering was a design choice by some human at apple because they don't want you turning it off.
The fact that the 2nd click worked means I must have clicked it during a very precise window of time when the popup had already been displayed (else it would not have gotten covered up) but the main window UI had not been disabled yet. What are the odds?
Maybe it is more likely that the AI was doing this. I dunno.