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It's just insane that you need Amphetamine, homebrew, iStat menus, and a dozen other 3rd party tools to do what should be part of an operating system's job anyw

• IfOnlyYouKnew 6y ago
  It is part of the operating system. You can either disable various power-saving measures. Or use the built-in shell command caffeinate. Or run a muted video looping in the background.
  • smoldesu 6y ago
    As opposed to KDE, where you click the battery icon and check off "keep my computer awake". Sometimes Apple's design is so stuck in the 90s that I have a hard time wrapping my head around it.
    • jitl 6y ago
      You’re being downvoted for oversimplifying what this app does as well as the combative tone. As GP said, on Mac you can turn off sleep timer permanently in the OS settings. The app in question let’s you keep awake for the next N minutes/hours so the “keep awake” setting change isn’t permanent. It makes sleep-settings workflow much easier. It’s simple but worthwhile.
  • voodootrucker 6y ago
    Thank you, I wasn't aware of these options. As a teacher, I was often in situations where a lesson would go on for a while with no computer interaction, and another teacher recommended Amphetamine. It worked well and I never discovered the shell command. I actually tried for a bit and never discovered a GUI option. Do you have a link handy?
    • X-Istence 6y ago
      System Preferences -> Battery Select either Battery or Power Adapter to make changes to how the system will go to sleep/turn the display off after a certain amount of time.
  • danaliv 6y ago
    I’ve been confused about why this app even exists, for this very reason. I use the built-in facilities to keep my Mac awake.
    • joegahona 6y ago
      I’m guessing that doing command-line contortions is a hassle for some people, and this app removes that.
    • bromonkey 6y ago
      clicking one thing to get a functionality and having a visual status icon
• jmull 6y ago
  IDK. Take Amphetamine for example. I've been using Macs for decades and have no use for it. I don't doubt it has its uses, but is it really OS functionality? I suspect the defaults cover 90% of cases and System Prefs/caffinate cover maybe 90% of what's left.
  • frankenst1 6y ago
    > I don't doubt it has its uses, but is it really OS functionality? Example: Closed-lid Macbooks with external display will go to sleep without this tool.
    • FPGAhacker 6y ago
      A closed lid MacBook will sleep unless an external monitor is connected. Amphetamine/KeepingYouAwake/Caffeinate does not change that.
      • acomjean 6y ago
        Mine sleeps with the lid closed unless it’s plugged into power.
        • fastball 6y ago
          In what context are you using an external monitor without plugging your laptop into power?
          • acomjean 6y ago
            You could forget to bring your power adapter home and have some short tasks to do at home which benefit from large screens.
      • frankenst1 6y ago
        Closed-lid + External Monitor + Power Supply = awake Closed-lid + External Monitor + Battery = sleep Closed-lid + External Monitor + Battery + Amphetamine = awake
• FireBeyond 6y ago
  My current necessity: Jettison, to flush and auto-unmount removable drives (including my PCIe SSD) on sleep and remount on wake.