Ah that’s funny,… it’s a joke right?
Right?!
Didn’t realise macbook had a touchpad on the right side variant.
Image generation is still garbage.
WTF can’t you have the computer run with the lid closed… works on windows and ubuntu…
You can? Mine always go to sleep.
Literally a setting in power management on every PC. Learn to use a god damn computer.
Fr?
You can’t be serious…
This has been a thing since I had the old Lenovo ThinkPad with the clit mouse.
Haha i forget about clit mouses
Yes, go to the power options, then advanced or custom ( cant remember what it said) and there should be a setting for what to do when the lid closes
one of my computers even had that built into its high performance/power guzzler or gaming or i forget profiles. it’s been over 2 decades since my last laptop.
Has to be fake, it would (somehow) be a subscription in reality.
You get a 20% discount if you purchase the yearly pro subscription to Claude.
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
You joke, but you need to understand that this
wasis real
Apple will 1up you
That’s Indian Rupees - ₹17800 is currently $18.73.
Still overpriced, and not that overpriced.
Oh yeah forgot that exists
Not just was, still is a thing.
That particular monitor has been discontinued, I thought.
Yea, but they probably have a bunch of stock of the stand to sell
Do Macs seriously not let you control the options for when the screen is closed?
you think people who vibe code know how to navigate menus and accomplish simple tasks?
They do, it’s in power settings.
Apple changed the power settings to no longer allow the computer to stay awake with the lid closed unless it’s either connected to power or connected to an external display.
Edit: But there is a command line you can use.
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?
Ofcourse you can hold it wrong or pay Apple even more and do it right.
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.
But you can specify different policies for different groups, no?
Also the setting I was looking for is to have screen locked but still have computer running.
You can, but the C suite doesn’t want the trouble of finding out who is fucking it up, and they don’t want to look like they are singling out any particular person or group, so they just tell us to set it as company standard policy. For everyone except them of course.
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
My mcp server won’t change it for me so therefore it’s impossible.
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.
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.
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
You know what is great about using Adobe products on Linux?
You can’t!
Actually they patched wine back in January to fix install and authentication issues with the creative cloud app. Some people have gotten the current version of Photoshop installed and it is usable. The rest of the stuff… Not so much.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
I program as well. And when I’m programming I’m not doing anything GPU intensive.
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’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.
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?
Probably not, because Apple need to sell this clamp
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.
Thanks! That’s pretty fucking hilarious actually.
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?
good point, that makes the comment i replied to seem even more silly
Nah, dbzero exists
It also shares the same sentiment. Except “fuck” is literal.
No fucking shit
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
A pencil seems like it would risk the screen getting broken when the bag gets bumped, because the middle is unsupported, or it falls inside.
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.
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.
