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Running "shutdown" on remote hosts isn't something I have ever needed to do routinely.

Is this for ephemeral dev boxes? Does shutdown suspend billing on AWS/cloud type hosts?

Boulette isn't only for safeguarding "shutdown", it is for safeguarding what needs to be. This is to prevent yourself from some harmeful reflexes.

I my case, I use atuin a lot and automatically retype long commands and sometimes as root.

The regularity of this actions tend to lower my attention, but the fact that many users depend on what I do on big machines and with lots of priviledges isn't less true.

Danger comes from getting used to it.

This for the case where you think you type it locally but are actually typing it remotely. But I’d personally never type this locally so this use case is not convincing at all for me.

I have a laptop that just runs a bare ubuntu terminal, no DE, and I've accidentally shut down a home server before when I tried to shut down the laptop. Quite annoying, since I was away from home at the time

Why do you shut your laptop down instead of just closing the lid?

Many laptops have terrible power usage during sleep, so if you just close the laptop and throw it in your bag, you'll open it tomorow with 30% less battery

Because the battery is absolutely knackered

This! Another use case: I use it on nixos-rebuild to update the system, when I don't want to rebuild from tiny hosts but rather from a powerfull machine and then send binaries,because it would take to much time to compile otherwise.

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