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Serious question: i'm back at daily driving macOS at work after using other platforms for a while. Caffeine vs Amphetamine (app), whats the preferred one these

• masklinn 5y ago
  Couldn't say, I'm using caffeinate because it's builtin, and more or less every time I need the feature it's because of a dev / shell thing, so the ability to run `caffeinate <command>` or `caffeinate -w <pid-of-program-I-forgot-to-run-through-caffeinate >` is what I need. I'm pretty sure they both work through the standard power assertions API[0], so nothing precludes having both (in fact if you have amphetamine you necessarily have both) and using whichever's more convenient for your needs at any time. Unlike AlDente (versus native) there should not be any conflict between caffeinate and amphetamine, because both simply signal to the system that some forms of sleep / power saving should not be used. If caffeinate says the disks can't idle-sleep and amphetamine says the system can't idle sleep, then neither will happen and that's that. [0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iokit/iopmlib_h https://developer.apple.com/documentation/iokit/iopmlib_h
• arminiusreturns 5y ago
  May I suggest https://keepingyouawake.app/ https://keepingyouawake.app/ As a gnu/linux person forced on Mac for work, this was what I settled on that worked reliably for me. (I found I would often crash iterm2 or alacritty and lose my terminal based caffiene commands)