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AI coders are carrying half-open laptops (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Can't you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs

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[โ€“] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why when caffeinate comes preinstalled?

[โ€“] MissingInteger@lemmy.zip 1 points 23 hours ago

If you close the lid on a MacBook, it ignores caffeinate and goes to sleep anyway. The only cases in which it doesn't go to sleep with a closed lid are when you connect an external display or disable sleep entirely:

sudo pmset disablesleep 1