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Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by beardyw » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 12:00 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #13

a1o wrote: post #12

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> The second player, the Winamp clone Wait, what the Winamp clone? Clicks link This is beautiful, thank you for this!

A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/

That's great. Can't see a keep screen on option?

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by mananaysiempre » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 12:36 PM UTC

beardyw wrote: post #31

mananaysiempre wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A standalone project, incidentally: https://webamp.org/

That's great. Can't see a keep screen on option?

I wanted to say that sounds like too much to make available to web apps at all, but nope, apparently it’s indeed a thing that a website can tell your computer to do[1]. I don’t see an option to do that here either, though. I guess your choices are to submit a pull request[2] adding that capability or to use a manual systemwide toggle (I use Keep Awake![3] on GNOME Shell and Coffee[4] on Android).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...

[2] https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

[3] https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1097/keep-awake/

[4] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.muellerma.coffee/

Re: Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe"

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Post by beardyw » Fri, Aug 23, 2024, 12:49 PM UTC

mananaysiempre wrote: post #32

beardyw wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's great. Can't see a keep screen on option?

I wanted to say that sounds like too much to make available to web apps at all, but nope, apparently it’s indeed a thing that a website can tell your computer to do[1]. I don’t see an option to do that here either, though. I guess your choices are to submit a pull request[2] adding that capability or to use a manual systemwide toggle (I use Keep Awake![3] on GNOME Shell and Coffee[4] on Android). [1] https://develope…

Just a few lines of script and you are done. I think it was a reaction to sites playing a hidden video, which was just a waste. Even works on my Ubuntu laptop.