I like how they think they're somehow special for walking around with their laptops open. Business idiots have been doing this forever. It isn't some new "AI coder" thing. Jane from fucking accounting does this on the way to her meetings too you morons.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2026
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Brace yourselves for a windows update that will override the settings with giant bubble buttons on how to turn off sleep mode..
So relieved I'm fully Linux now
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Fuckin noobs
Lol I mean... yeah, they're vibe coding.
Absolute tech jank, indicative of people who don't know what they're doing.
When you lock your lid: Do nothing When on battery, turn off laptop after: Never
Why would you not just ssh to a server at your house or office and only wake from sleep when you get a notification saying whatever process is done running? That just seems like screen addiction to me.
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Does anyone have an example of a real world, AI coded thing? I keep hearing about all these vibe coders, but I'm not seeing any tangible products.
Micodeslop Windows
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Can't you just disable sleep on close?
~~Most modern laptops have their air intake in the keyboard, which would cause them to overheat on a matter of minutes.~~
Edit: I may have been confidently incorrect here. I know I’ve seen this done before, but I guess it’s not common like I thought
Decent ones dropped this practice a while ago. Some pull in the sides, some crappy ones use the bottom. My coworker actually got much better performance out of his dell by closing the lid and flipping it over. With it positioned normally it would overheat and throttle the cpu.
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Just install Amphetamine on your Mac, duh
Shoutout amphetamine, awesome little app.
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Hey chatGPT, can I close my laptop lid and not have it go to sleep?
ChatGPT: screw off loser.
I mean honestly if you asked any AI, with relevant OS info, first thing it would tell you is how to configure your laptop to suppress lid off action.
"I think people think I'm whatever the equivalent of an iPad kid is for a middle-aged woman," one AI user said."
They don't think it bro they fuckin know it.
It can't be a local model right? Why don't they just do it on their phones? Or if it is local, run it on their desktop and access it remotely. It's just so stupid.
Share.google 😬
Thanks for pointing that out, I wasn't paying attention and thought I'd copied the direct link. I've fixed it.
No it totally doesn't turn my brain into goop
In the before times we had to VPN into machines and run large data processing jobs that took hours. It was pretty normal for everyone to leave their laptop half-open on their desks during lunch.
No, it was not a good idea. Yes, we fucked with each other and changed people's backgrounds or chat usernames or email signatures.
Anyways, if you're on Mac you can run caffeinate -i claude and your computer won't go to sleep until you close your Claude Code instance. You can also attach it to a PID. Then you can close your computer's lid and it'll still run.
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