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I used to use timeout 1800 mplayer show.mp4 ; sudo pm-suspend As my poor man's parental control to let my kids watch a show for 30 minutes without manual
by noufalibrahim 1y ago
I used to use
timeout 1800 mplayer show.mp4 ; sudo pm-suspend
As my poor man's parental control to let my kids watch a show for 30 minutes without manual supervision when they were younger. Useful command
- gbraad 1y agoThat is probably the best described use case!
- noufalibrahim 1y agoI read somewhere that "when there's a shell, there's a way". It's tongue in cheek but somewhat true. The leverage that these simple commands and a programmable shell gives you is huge and can't be overstated
- saagarjha 1y agoAfter which they get put in time out