Back in the dim and distant past, I lived with my soul cat (not the cat in the picture) who was clever and bright and loved to nap. His favorite napping place was on top of my computer monitor, which caused problems. It was a large color CRT monitor, and they ran quite hot (which, no doubt, is why it made such a comfy bed). The problem is that the monitor depended on venting heat out the top. Said heat was blocked by Kitty’s opulent fur. Eventually, the monitor overheated and died. I was a starving student, and a large color monitor was an expensive proposition (but necessary to my side gig writing articles for computer trade journals).
What was confusing was that I did not allow the cat to sleep on the monitor when I was home, and I turned the computer off when I left (and had a special monitor controller that disconnected power from the monitor when the computer was off, not something that happened automatically in those days). I started checking the logs, and found out that I was, indeed, remembering to turn off the computer before I left, but it was turning back on 5-10 minutes after I’d gone. One of the innovations of that particular computer (a Macintosh II) was soft power — you could turn it on by pressing a special key on the keyboard. So, yes, the cat had figured out that he could turn on his heated bed by pressing the power key after I’d left.
—2p