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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:52:48 JST mcc

   - Start a long running compute process on the laptop
   - Come back a few hours later
   - Discover the laptop was asleep the entire time, and the compute process will take two hours to finish

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     Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:52:41 JST Nathan Schneider

     in reply to

     • Pop!_OS :popos:
     • Kyle

     @kyle_pegasus @mcc only @pop_os_official can save us

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     Kyle (kyle_pegasus@scalie.club)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:52:47 JST Kyle

     in reply to

     @mcc "GNOME... appears to have no... feature[s] at all"

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 09:52:48 JST mcc

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     Mac OS 8.6 in the nineties had a feature, in its power saver, of having a special corner of the screen where if you move the cursor, the computer will not auto-sleep. GNOME Linux in the year 2024 appears to have no "temporarily indicate you shouldn't sleep" feature at all