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I remember years ago visiting a customer shortly after many of their engineering staff had just upgraded to whatever macbook was popular at a time. Within the
by nullc 7y ago
I remember years ago visiting a customer shortly after many of their engineering staff had just upgraded to whatever macbook was popular at a time.
Within the week that they had them, two people in the department had broken their screens/hinges from accidents walking in and out of meetings with the lids open because there was no way provided in the software to disable suspend on lid closed which was killing people's SSH sessions. Within the month someone in my office also managed to do the same, and most of us weren't even using macs.
(I understand that this was eventually workaroundable with some power users tools; and I imagine mosh makes the suspends a little less of an issue now).
I'm sad that the popular linux desktops later decided to emulate the bad software culture that brought anti-features like that mandatory suspend.
So I expect that mic off on hinge close will have similar results. Though, ... at least this seems a lot more legitimate to me than a refusal to not suspend.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoIt's a trade-off. The behavior is pretty easy to grasp for the average user (closed laptop: stop doing everything, enter low-power mode), and there's ways around it for users that want something different (caffeinate command, ssh to tmux/screen sessions, etc).
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- mvanbaak 7y agoA macbook works perfectly in clamshell mode. Just provide power and have a display connected. (not sure if you have to have a display connected, but it's how I'm typing this comment right now) Also, using tmux (or screen) on the other end of the ssh connection helps. And not only for when you close the lid, but also if the connection gets interrupted (power failure, internet failure, routing failure, whatever)
- toast0 7y ago> A macbook works perfectly in clamshell mode. Just provide power and have a display connected. I can't imagine how much more equipment would be damaged if the people described were carrying around a power source and a monitor with them so they could close their laptop and bring it to a meeting without dropping their sessions.
- folmar 7y agoThere are fake display adapters specifically to combat stupid problems with running mac displayless. Maybe we need a fake power source as well...