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I do seriously occasionally play videos to keep my device awake - local mkvs on repeat though, not the consuming internet bandwidth type. Usually when leaving s
by karamanolev 3y ago
I do seriously occasionally play videos to keep my device awake - local mkvs on repeat though, not the consuming internet bandwidth type. Usually when leaving some janky update apps (hi Garmin) that really need to keep working for hours and don't care about keeping the PC awake. When twiddling with sleep settings I sometimes don't set them up right and playing a video in VLC always works.
- laserdancepony 3y agoOn Windows I've been using "Don't Sleep" [1] and have now switched to "PowerToys Awake" [2] for one-click sleep prevention. On macOS I've used Caffeine [3] for that purpose. KDE on the other hand already has a built-in check box to prohibit sleeping in the power/battery control applet. There seems to be quite a market for this teeny tiny tools. [1] https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep https://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Microsoft/DontSleep [2] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake [3] https://www.caffeine-app.net https://www.caffeine-app.net
- ethbr0 3y agoOn Windows, a VB script (so runnable with the default script runner) that toggles NumLock every so often is the classic. Looks like PowerShell is the updated version: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9795442 https://stackoverflow.com/a/9795442 Point being that it's runnable on any Windows machine, without additional binaries.
- snowe2010 3y agoCaffeine is actually built into macs. You can just run ` caffeine` on the command line. I like to use hammerspoon to control it though, which adds the exact same icon to the taskbar, but I have one less thing to install.
- abwizz 3y agoso there is a separate management frontend for the hack that prevents the computer from shutting itself off?