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I sometimes find it more convenient to carry a laptop to the meeting room or to a separate teleconferencing space (or even to the couch at home) with the lid cl
by Delk 4y ago
I sometimes find it more convenient to carry a laptop to the meeting room or to a separate teleconferencing space (or even to the couch at home) with the lid closed.
Especially if I'm also carrying something in my other hand.
- alex_smart 4y agoAnd what is the problem with doing that? The system comes back up when you reopen the lid nearly instantly anyways?
- leni536 4y agoThis assumes that you don't have stuff you would rather leave running in the background. Like compiling, or keeping an ssh session alive. I at least sometimes see coworkers walking around with open laptops, which looks inconcenient. I am sure they have their reason for not closing the lid.
- Delk 4y agoIt does, but it still requires unlocking the session on resume, which is a minor inconvenience if you're just moving to a neighbouring room with a coffee cup in your other hand. Slightly more importantly, sometimes it's also convenient to keep network connections open, e.g. for ssh sessions. Those aren't really problems, but it can be a minor matter of convenience, and I've set both my work and personal laptops to not suspend when the lid is closed. I'm not saying that's in any way a better idea than keeping the typical default, and I have absolutely no opinion on what anybody else should do. FWIW, I also don't care whether macOS gives an option for not triggering sleep when closing the lid, which was the original matter. But I don't agree that there's no reason to close the lid except for suspending.