Exactly the kind of extra an Apple user would buy to solve this problem.
Anyone else would investigate how to prevent sleepmode when the lid is closed.
Or you could just shove a half-eaten apple in there. It’s cheap, it’s on brand, it’s sticky and you deserve it for buying Apple
Do Macs seriously not let you control the options for when the screen is closed?
They do, it’s in power settings.
if you ever see one of those yank it
This the first thing I disable on any laptop 😄
I have no understanding of this joke. Feels like I have to be aware of, and upset about 40 other things to even get it.
There was a meme about AI ads/Tech Bro/etc always showing someone with a half open/closed laptop. That’s all i know
Just to run the joke into the ground.
Dude was so tech illiterate he didn’t know you could change the laptop power settings for it to not go to sleep when the lid was closed. Was bragging about toting his laptop around half open and pushing himself as an advanced AI tech bro. Which, who knows, he might be. They all seem to have grifted an insane amount of money with no actual knowledge.
OpenClaw is the name of a recently hyped “free and open-source autonomous artificial intelligence agent that can execute tasks via large language models (LLMs)”.
youre on the fuckai sub btw
Isn’t that just all of Lemmy?
Nah, dbzero exists
No fucking shit
Not I gotta see if there’s a “trilliondollarcompany” lemmy.
Steal indeed. Except they’re stealing from you.
At this point just keep the lid open.
I was unaware of this until I saw the post about the dad taking care of his young daughter in the pool locker room with his laptop propped open. Pathetic.
You joke, but you need to understand that this
wasis real
Oh yeah forgot that exists
Not just was, still is a thing.
That particular monitor has been discontinued, I thought.
I know this is a joke post, but can’t you not just tell macos to only turn off the screen but keep the machine running?
Yes but the air intake is through the keyboard so if you are leaving it on a long running computer heavy task it is better to leave it open.
Or at least that’s how it used to be. The design has changed several times since I last did that.
Or do what we’ve already been doing for ages? Let the agent run on a remote server and just use your laptop to ssh into that server when your input is needed.
Of course you can.
But that would… You know… Require someone thinking for themselves.
We can’t have that now can we?
People might get ideas.
At my work, the IT decided that employees should not be allowed to modify this setting for some reason, and it is set to go to sleep if inactive, it is so frustrating. I don’t use agents but still had situation that I wanted to have something running when being on lunch for example.
We have to do that because the entire HR department can’t figure out how to lock their computers and they keep leaving PII up on their screen while they are out at lunch.
My mcp server won’t change it for me so therefore it’s impossible.
Nah, I’m pretty sure it just requires giving the background AI agent admin privileges. The agent can already accidentally spend millions of dollars on tokens, apparently, so admin powers don’t actually make it all that much more dangerous
/s
The entire chassis metal, and thermals sort of suck. I believe a lot of heat will come through the area around the keyboard. I wouldn’t want to trap all of that.
One of the nice things about a metal chassis is that it conducts heat very well. Now obviously, the screen isn’t metal so closing the lid probably does trap some heat but the metal chassis itself does not trap heat, it absorbs it and then radiates it to the outside world.
This can indeed give the impression that heat generation is excessive in a metal chassis laptop, or that the thermals suck as you say, because the case can get warm or even hot very quickly. But that is actually because the chassis allows the heat to escape.
On the other hand, a plastic chassis will stay much cooler on the outside because it is very effectively trapping the heat and only forcing airflow with a fan allows the computer to stay at an appropriate internal temperature.
In other words; if all other parameters are the same, a laptop inside a metal chassis will have a lower internal temperature and a higher external temp, while one in a plastic case will have a higher internal temperature but the outside of the case will be cooler.
My ACER leaves the cooling crevices free with the lid closed, no heat accumulation.
Thermals do suck on Apple laptops.
Send my ASUS sends a lot of its own waste heat through the frame around the keyboard as well. I would not want to trap any of that s*** with GPU intensive activities.
I develop on a MacBook Pro and use it closed 99% of the time.
Thermals have never been an issue, it does have venting.
It would be sad if a $2000 laptop had problems with cooling
I program as well. And when I’m programming I’m not doing anything GPU intensive.
The macbook pro I’m forced to use at work is constantly sounding like a jet engine taking off and the keyboard is still hot as fuck.
Maybe your work loads are light.
This is also a joke about AI users. There was an article about them leaving their laptop screens open so their vibe coding would continue. Most of them use windows but don’t know how to change the power settings for closed lid/screen.
On the CLI or with 3rd party software yes, in the system settings no.
Edit: Or when an external display is attached it does it automatically, which is also not tunable. If I wasn’t forced to at work I’d never use this OS.
It’s better than Windows. I’m forced to use Windows at work and I want to go back to macOS.
Agreed, you have my sympathies. For work I only need to use Windows in a VM at least, because of shitty tooling from the manufacturer of some of our equipment.
Their support agents also need to use Windows, what they need to do just to get sensible SSH and serial line handling looks annoying.
Here’s the kicker. I don’t need windows for anything, but the device management software is a few euro cheaper in the windows version.
Oof! That’s even worse.
Just use Linux bro
I’ll just tell that to IT boss, with your credentials as ‘some person on the internet’ I should get one in a few hours.
It all depends what software you use. If you run blender, it actually might be a solution. If you use Adobe products, then probably not.
You know what is great about using Adobe products on Linux?
You can’t!
It doesn’t depend on the software. This is a decision my company made for all of the ten thousands of employees, not because we use software from Adobe, but because they want the same conditions for everyone so that they can manage them “easily”.
Big companies are not very flexible in those regards
Shit company, shit policy. If it’s not software dependent then you should be free to pick the environment that’s you’re most productive with
I’d worry about the heat damaging the screen tbh
All the Macs use M-series chips now… the heat is not a concern. Mine is closed constantly with external monitors and keyboard and never throttles or gets monstrously hot like the old Intel Macs.
I would be happy if I could disable the built in screen when a secondary one is connected.
The amount of shit Linux would get from windows users if that wasn’t possible.
What OS can you not do this?
MacOS
Probably not, because Apple need to sell this clamp
depending on your build, putting an extra switch disconnecting lid switch could be a better idea because power management is hell on linux
MacOS is not linux? Maybe BSD if you go back far enough.
macos users have budget for these objects
I’m still confused here… Can you explain what Linux, an extra switch, and power management have to do with “prompt engineers” not knowing how to disable sleep on their MacBooks?
An AI generated image of a joke tool inspired by a joke tool from an AI consultancy company.
Context: https://x.com/Hesamation/status/2060148080838693000
Sidenote, but it’s kind of crazy how no one in those Twitter threads seems to realize it’s a joke product.
i like the 2y+ lead time
because it’s targeted at tools, too
and also, it would break the hinges in intended use, and as pictured it can’t work (doesn’t hold the lower half). pair of wedge shaped things would work much better, i think
Or a pencil.
will pencil keep it wide open enough? the intention was to keep it slightly open, then put it in a bag and go around. years back when i had a laptop that shut down wifi with lid closed i solved that by taping a packet of instant ramen to palmrest for one evening
Omg i so wish that this was real. I would use it until the end of time to make fun of people.
The Apple Magic Mouse already exists, ya know?
When mouse dead because no battery, mouse lay on back to show it dead.
