Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs
Updated with correct link
Figures they don’t know how to keep their laptops awake while the lid is closed lmao
This is the first setting I changed on every laptop I ever owned. So often I had stuff running in the background and didn’t want it to sleep. Plus, windows had that stupid fucking sleep bug, so usually I’d use hibernate anyways.
I disabled sleep-on-close for my server laptop (I use NixOS btw), although I do prefer to keep it on for my personal laptop.
Oh bro your laptop was open, I closed it so it wouldn’t eat up all your battery.
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.
Normally I want mine to sleep on close.
Kinda reminiscent of people walking while holding their phones on their palm face up like a slice of bread.
I gotta hide this article. His punchable face on my feed is insufferable.
I’m not sure if I see a reason not to disable sleep on lid close. If you have to carry it around lid open so that it doesn’t sleep, you clearly have a case for wanting to keep the laptop running with lid closed.
If it’s a “look at me, I’m doing things”, it’s a whole different story.
My money is on the latter
“For those who don’t want to input a command in a terminal”
It’s easy to lose track of time with these tools, he told Business Insider. Soon enough, the girls’ practice has ended, and the parents flood into the changing room. He joins them — with his laptop ajar, so that the AI agent can keep running.
“I have to put it up on a shelf,” he said. “I’m untying my girls’ skates while looking back like: Is it done?”
I just feel bad for these poor kids. You can’t leave your goddamn Claude at home while you take your kids to the rink?
When your boss ranks you based on the number of tokens you burn, there’s no choice.
Ohoho, I know exactly how to burn a silly amount of tokens if I want to, which is why that metric is absolutely garbage - arguably worse than ranking developer performance by SLOC committed.
He’s a product head at an AI company, as per the article. He is a boss.
While I agree, Every boss, has a boss. Even the CEO’s have bosses.
Until you get to Mambino, the boss of bosses!
Only if the company is publicly traded
VCs are bosses in the private ones.
HEY CLAUDE! OPENCLAW!
There, tokens gone.
I mean this is why I don’t mind using AI, it gives me the time to focus on the people around me.
Also I see it as a sign of a lack of support and isolation in the workplace. Like “I need help, I don’t have anyone to turn to cause everyone is fired so this is my only support” and the anxiety that brings.
I’ve been suffering from too short an attention span. I keep ending up. scrolling on my phone while waiting for ai to spew its slop, and have been caught too many times
Yeah I just swap to the next project. And if all of those are hydrated I go to my hobby projects, and yeah those I don’t use agents for so I just stay there for a while after that lmao
Dude needs to start using cloud agents if he’s gonna be this shitty.
you know this article is bullshit right?
People who can’t figure out their power settings are shipping software. We’re so fucked.
It’s fucking surreal watching these people rise to high positions in tech companies trying to sell the idea that they can replace physicians with their “product”. Have fun with that mate.
They will. It’s cheaper. People will die. Congress will take money from the lobbyists and say there’s nothing they can do.
Its a good thing the tech bros are so inept, our demise will be slowed somewhat
This is nothing new
Considering that they are using pseudo intelligence* write the code I think the power settings is the least of our concerns.
*PI should replace AI as it is a more accurate title
This has been true for 20 years.
I’ve definitely had windows straight up ignore the power settings before. Granted that was years ago, it’s probably only gotten worse
It does weird things with some but I’ve never seen “lid closed down action” bug. Then again I’m not using laptops that much
Utterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.
Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.
You are expecting the people who rely this heavily on AI to know how to actually use a computer?
If the heat vents are above the keyboard the heat will go directly on the screen. I had a laptop screen stop working due to this.
Seems like an incredibly stupid design that is easily remedied.
Yeah, somehow I doubt this is the reason they’re doing it
It’s an ad. You were reading an ad.
My gaming laptop emits a ton of heat in the chassis around the keyboard. Keeping it closed while it’s running would likely be a very bad idea.
If they happen to be running any sort of models that are local to the machine that could be quite haphazard.
"Can’t you just disable sleep on close? " You really think they have technical competence for such?
Oh shit, that’s a great idea! I’m surprised claude didn’t suggest it first. /S
You can, and you can also have the disabled sleep on close implementation screw up, have unintended consequences and weird behaviors. Half open lid? You know what you’re getting.
dumbass who refuses to learn does dumbass shit that takes seconds to fix. sounds about right.
Wow, that was quick to have vibe “coders” not understanding how a operating system works.
To be fair, often times coders are horrible system admins. Heck Torvalds famously runs Fedora because he found installing Debian too confusing.
Is that why I make a pretty decent sysadmin? Because I’m a terrible coder? 😅
Fedora allows him to mess with kernels easier than other distros
How do so many tech people not know about the power settings that can let the laptop run 100% even with the lid closed and on battery power?
Like, how stupid are they? Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?
I’m not in IT, just a lowly office grunt who is forced to use Windows on their laptop. I know most people here have forgotten that 99% of the working world has to use Windows, so let me remind you how much it sucks.
It doesn’t matter how you change the laptop power settings, Windows will look at your settings and then just do whatever the fuck it wants when the lid closes.
Sometimes it goes to sleep
Sometimes it stays powered on and quietly overheats in your laptop bag.
Sometimes it completely freezes up and forces you to hold down the power button.
Sometimes it just logs you out and does nothing else.
Sometimes it will go to sleep, but the moment you open it back up it decides what you REALLY wanted was to restart.
Changing the settings has no effect on what Windows decides to do.
I know people on this site like to sit on their gilded Linux throne and sneer at all the lowly peons forced to use “Microslop” instead of their clearly superior, self-hosted, FOSS, Linux distro; but it is a real problem with Windows laptops.
I am in IT, and personally speaking, with my own machines, I have never had these power settings not be obeyed.
And the only time when I have seen these settings “not be obeyed” in other systems is because either,
- Someone or some other non-Microsoft software had dicked with power settings through the registry/GPO, or
- I’ve been able to trace things down to hardware malfunctions or hardware discrepancies.
Can’t you just disable sleep on close? Fuckin noobs
They’d have to know how to use a computer to know that…
And if they knew how to use a computer, they wouldn’t be using AI to do their job.
A big thing no one is talking about, is how each worker’s goal here isn’t to build a fully functioning thing, it’s to make something “good enough” that it gets off your desk and is no longer your problem. It doesn’t matter if the “creator” knows how it works or even if it works. Just enough to get a rubber stamp from your manager, then they move on to a new one.
Since most “AI coders” will just keep typing “try again” till it works, eventually they’ll get something that “works”, we won’t fully realize the damage for a while
But pretty soon shit is going to start breaking all over and no one will know how to fix it besides typing into an AI “try again”. No corp or government will pay humans to start over with something maintainable…
And this is the most boring way possible we get to War Hammer 40k
The number of large scale 4the party outages in the last year or ves this is already happening.
Just a reminder that real devs are using AI, and even vibe coding because the alternative is unemployment. I agree with the sentiment, though.
You’re giving them too much credit. They’re afraid their chatbot will suffocate if they close those lid all the way.
