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The first thing I install on a fresh Mac is amphetamine.
by anonexpat 7y ago
The first thing I install on a fresh Mac is amphetamine.
- SamuelAdams 7y agoJust curious, how is this different from Caffeine? http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/ http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
- blacksmith_tb 7y agoOr just running caffeinate -t 10000?
- wyclif 7y agoOne difference is that Amphetamine isn't updated as well, also seems more hackish. I switched to Caffeine a while ago.
- oefrha 7y agoIt has more features. Check https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12 for details. The one you linked to looks like a simple wrapper of caffeinate(8).
- skoskie 7y agoCaffeine might be better in this scenario, but amphetamine has some auto triggers and custom settings for keeping the system awake but still turning off the screen, etc.
- asveikau 7y agoMaybe I will get flamed for saying it. What a shockingly tasteless name for an app. Edit: guessing that downvoters haven't encountered a lot of people suffering from addiction
- mulmen 7y agoThe most popular third party software installation tool for MacOS is called Homebrew. Alcoholics exist. That doesn't make the name offensive. Amphetamines have legitimate therapeutic uses, it's not only crippling addiction.
- asveikau 7y agoActually you just made a pretty convincing case that Homebrew has similar issues. I am already not a fan of it because I have hit too many amateurish bugs, but now I have another reason. By the way, the word brew is also used for other things, eg. coffee or tea, and homebrew is a common metaphor for other things where amphetamine is unbiguously one thing.
- mulmen 7y agoYeah Homebrew is kind of a bad example. I wish there was at least an option to use descriptive names instead of tortured analogies.
- htfu 7y agoOverdiagnosis & misuse etc aside the number of people using amphetamines therapeutically may well outnumber your "unambiguous" cohort by a larger fraction than drinkers do alcoholics. Tasteless comment.
- asveikau 7y agoI didn't say use was unambiguously non-therapeutic. I said it was unambiguously a drug. There are no famous cultural metaphors analogous to "homebrew computer club" etc. It always refers directly to the substance. Maybe you should consider that a close family member had problems with this very recently before you call me tasteless. It is in fact really fucking stupid that some privileged Mac programmer, probably young and of limited life experience, thinks that is a cutesy name for his (yes I am assuming male) project and not the name of something ruining a lot of lives, probably thinks it's hilarious and clever. He has no taste. Opiates also have legit use. I wouldn't name a project after those either. There is a thing such as tone deafness.
- x0 7y agoYeah, I've had my problems in the past and whatever that app is, I wouldn't be keen on having that on my computer, it would only serve to remind me.
- dmitriid 7y agoIs there a world-wide approved list of names and topics that we're allowed to use to avoid infringing on sensibilities of 100% of world population?
- jwandborg 7y agoI take prescribed amphetamine [0] twice every day. The taste of the name is not in the name, it's from whatever else you had in your mouth at the same time. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine