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    macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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    2039 points Gadiguibou | 12 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 1.85s | source | bottom
    1. maxfurman ◴[27 Jun 23 13:13 UTC] No.36492219[source]▶
    I remember Caffeine used to be a third-party program that would prevent your Mac from sleeping, same behavior as the `caffeinate` here. Were they acquired and incorporated into the OS?
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    2. LanceH ◴[27 Jun 23 13:22 UTC] No.36492349[source]▶
    Anyone know of a Ubuntu on WSL equivalent?
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    3. alexdbird ◴[27 Jun 23 13:24 UTC] No.36492366[source]▶
    I believe that Caffeine was a fairly simple GUI wrapper for the existing caffeinate command
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    4. meepmorp ◴[27 Jun 23 13:26 UTC] No.36492395[source]▶
    It's been cli util on macos for 10+ years. I remember a gui util called caffeinated, though.
    5. emodendroket ◴[27 Jun 23 13:42 UTC] No.36492609[source]▶
    Yes. There is a similar product called Amphetamine now.
    6. coldtea ◴[27 Jun 23 13:55 UTC] No.36492806[source]▶
    Caffeine was a front-end by a third party company. Used it back in the day, the command existed already though.

    Since then I've moved to Amphetamine (same purpose menu-bar app, even stronger chemicals, has timed keep-awake etc).

    7. ◴[27 Jun 23 13:56 UTC] No.36492834[source]▶
    8. redacted ◴[27 Jun 23 15:19 UTC] No.36494143[source]▶
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/awake to keep Windows itself awake?
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    9. krackers ◴[27 Jun 23 23:28 UTC] No.36500149[source]▶
    From what I recall, caffeine app predated the caffeinate command (which was only introduced in lion). Caffeine.app also disables sleep via a completely different method than caffeinate. The latter uses a IOPMAssertion which is the recommended way to do it because it is visible in `pmset -g assertions` whereas the former doesn't use that approach (I forgot how exactly it did it, there's like 4 different methods on osx to prevent sleep).
    10. LanceH ◴[28 Jun 23 13:33 UTC] No.36506215{3}[source]▶
    Hoping for something in WSL land.
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    11. input_sh ◴[29 Jun 23 07:18 UTC] No.36517413[source]▶
    apt install caffeine
    12. redacted ◴[01 Jul 23 13:35 UTC] No.36549947{4}[source]▶
    `vmIdleTimeout` in .wslconfig might be an option? Win 11 only though