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[–] jlow@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 hours ago

Has to be fake, it would (somehow) be a subscription in reality.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] SethTaylor@lemmy.world 19 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 12 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Do Macs seriously not let you control the options for when the screen is closed?

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

you think people who vibe code know how to navigate menus and accomplish simple tasks?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 19 points 5 hours ago

They do, it's in power settings.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Bakkoda@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There was a meme about AI ads/Tech Bro/etc always showing someone with a half open/closed laptop. That's all i know

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 3 points 5 hours ago

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)".

[–] texture@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

youre on the fuckai sub btw

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 2 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't that just all of Lemmy?

[–] texture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

good point, that makes the comment i replied to seem even more silly

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

It also shares the same sentiment. Except "fuck" is literal.

[–] Krudler@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

No fucking shit

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

if you ever see one of those yank it

[–] AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 200 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

You joke, but you need to understand that this ~~was~~ is real

image

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 42 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not just was, still is a thing.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago

That particular monitor has been discontinued, I thought.

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 13 points 10 hours ago
[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Steal indeed. Except they're stealing from you.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 83 points 14 hours ago (13 children)

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?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] doomguin@piefed.zip 111 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 27 minutes ago

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.

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] irish_link@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (11 children)

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.

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[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] linuxuser123@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago

At this point just keep the lid open.

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

Not I gotta see if there’s a “trilliondollarcompany” lemmy.

[–] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 35 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] fullsquare@awful.systems 6 points 10 hours ago

i like the 2y+ lead time

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[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Omg i so wish that this was real. I would use it until the end of time to make fun of people.

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

The Apple Magic Mouse already exists, ya know?

[–] SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 11 points 12 hours ago

When mouse dead because no battery, mouse lay on back to show it dead.

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