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I completely disabled everything to do with sleep. “Solved” the problem for me.

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The first thing I install on a fresh Mac is amphetamine.

Just curious, how is this different from Caffeine?

http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/

Or just running caffeinate -t 10000?

One difference is that Amphetamine isn't updated as well, also seems more hackish. I switched to Caffeine a while ago.

It has more features. Check https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12 for details.

The one you linked to looks like a simple wrapper of caffeinate(8).

Caffeine might be better in this scenario, but amphetamine has some auto triggers and custom settings for keeping the system awake but still turning off the screen, etc.

Maybe I will get flamed for saying it. What a shockingly tasteless name for an app.

Edit: guessing that downvoters haven't encountered a lot of people suffering from addiction

The most popular third party software installation tool for MacOS is called Homebrew. Alcoholics exist. That doesn't make the name offensive.

Amphetamines have legitimate therapeutic uses, it's not only crippling addiction.

Actually you just made a pretty convincing case that Homebrew has similar issues. I am already not a fan of it because I have hit too many amateurish bugs, but now I have another reason.

By the way, the word brew is also used for other things, eg. coffee or tea, and homebrew is a common metaphor for other things where amphetamine is unbiguously one thing.

Yeah Homebrew is kind of a bad example. I wish there was at least an option to use descriptive names instead of tortured analogies.

Overdiagnosis & misuse etc aside the number of people using amphetamines therapeutically may well outnumber your "unambiguous" cohort by a larger fraction than drinkers do alcoholics.

Tasteless comment.

I didn't say use was unambiguously non-therapeutic. I said it was unambiguously a drug. There are no famous cultural metaphors analogous to "homebrew computer club" etc. It always refers directly to the substance.

Maybe you should consider that a close family member had problems with this very recently before you call me tasteless. It is in fact really fucking stupid that some privileged Mac programmer, probably young and of limited life experience, thinks that is a cutesy name for his (yes I am assuming male) project and not the name of something ruining a lot of lives, probably thinks it's hilarious and clever. He has no taste. Opiates also have legit use. I wouldn't name a project after those either. There is a thing such as tone deafness.

Yeah, I've had my problems in the past and whatever that app is, I wouldn't be keen on having that on my computer, it would only serve to remind me.

Is there a world-wide approved list of names and topics that we're allowed to use to avoid infringing on sensibilities of 100% of world population?

I take prescribed amphetamine [0] twice every day. The taste of the name is not in the name, it's from whatever else you had in your mouth at the same time.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetamine

My issue with Catalina is that every time i open up the laptop and log in (so sleep, not reboot) it has forgotten the Apple-ID password and needs to be entered. I've tried all suggested solutions (I'm not alone) including resetting the NVMRAM etc. But so far no luck.

I'm holding off installing Catalina on my main machine. And now they seem to focus on 10.16 instead.

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