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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 loo
by 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 agoAs 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 agoYou’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 agoThank 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 agoSystem 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 agoI’ve been confused about why this app even exists, for this very reason. I use the built-in facilities to keep my Mac awake.