That’s it – that’s the tweet. I’m not going to try and convince you; this is an opinion about something that feels painfully obvious to me, but I don’t care if you feel the same way, unless you design electrical appliances for a living.

Consider the Edifier speakers pictured above – they do have a power button, but it is well hidden in the back (perhaps even more criminally, the only way to switch between Bluetooth and line input is through the remote control). If you use them as intended and have them on your bookshelf, it’s not exactly convenient placement. Compare this to the PreSonus Eris 3.5:

Look at that big chunky power button right there on the front! You just know that clicking it feels so good. If they were a little more greyer and a little less rectangular shaped, they could’ve come straight from the 90s.

The good news is that you can add power buttons to almost anything, and it’s easy to do. Just mount one of these little light switches to the power cable – your friends may laugh at you (as real friends do), but whoever has a power button controls the spice or something.

Here is just a sample of the power cords that have been “improved” in this household:

I don’t have anything else to add other than the fact that just like with the last one, the first draft (really just the title) for this is from February 2022, and I am now finishing it in February of 2025. If I had a quarter for each of these seasonal posts I’d now have two quarters, which isn’t a lot, but feels like slightly more than I should have.

You can get electrocuted and/or destroy your devices if you mess with them and I will deny ever existing.