Show HN: Prevent your computer sleeping with just a webpage

Post by taftster » Sat, Apr 23, 2022, 10:32 PM UTC

ghotli wrote: post #48

taftster wrote: post #22

So I like this and I'm trying it out, it seemingly works OK. However, the GREEN background is very annoying. I don't need the whole webpage to be green for me to know it's on and working. I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work. So I'm left with a very big green screen sitting in the corner of my eye. Wondering too the effect of that in terms of screen color burnout (if that's e…

I'm confused, kinda. If you want it to be a different color just alter the color? Lots of ways to attack that, host it yourself, change it with chrome dev tools, a bookmarklet that alters the css, user scripts for css overrides like greasemonkey popularized back in the early days of the web. Hope this helps you get the color you'd like :)

Post by bogota » Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 1:52 AM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #96

robbedpeter wrote: post #62

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Deliberately bypassing that puts your employment at risk. There's a reason you're being forced to log in.

Maybe if you're slacking off, but if you're working on a project with 10-minute compile times, you can't really use the computer for anything else while it's doing that, and it's quite annoying if it decides to go to sleep in the middle of that because you haven't nudged the mouse recently enough.

Post by freediver » Sun, Apr 24, 2022, 7:20 PM UTC

ecf wrote: post #134

adamomada wrote: post #67

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I've been using the more bare-bones KeepingYouAwake[0] just because I came across Caffeine first and this was suggested as the continuation of that simple utility. The icon makes it obvious whether it is enabled or disabled Edit: I see now that Amphetamine has the option of a similar-looking icon to make it more obvious whether it is enabled or not [0] https://github.com/newmarcel/KeepingYouAwake (My first HN comment…

> (My first HN comment, via Orion Browser) Did you manually type that out or is this some “Sent from my iPhone”-esque growth-hacking strategy by the Orion team?

Post by adamomada » Tue, Apr 26, 2022, 10:02 PM UTC

freediver wrote: post #135

ecf wrote: post #134

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> (My first HN comment, via Orion Browser) Did you manually type that out or is this some “Sent from my iPhone”-esque growth-hacking strategy by the Orion team?

Not from Orion, would be pretty invasive if it was (Orion dev here).