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Probably umpteen thousands of customer support queries about why Music now isn't starting when they connect their headphones after someone toggled it and forgot (or someone else toggled it and didn't tell them or an MDM profile toggled it or...)

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A quick review shows that Apple doesn't mind lots of questions if they don't bother answering them.

How to keep a Mac Mini from going to deep sleep so it can be used as a little server? Answer: install Linux.

Or one of the dozen “prevent deep sleep” apps…

To keep a McBook from falling asleep when you close the lid, you need to buy and use a dummy HDMI connector that makes it believe it is connected to an external display.

There's the built-in command line tool to prevent sleep, run "caffeinate -d"

It's funny how everyone acts like this stuff works, but then I try to log in and it's asleep. If it were easy, there wouldn't be a thousand ways to do it that are all incapable, it would just be a setting.

Are you leaving it running? If it works for everyone but you you're probably doing something wrong.

Jesus, that's such a feeble, dull, uninspired way to make product decisions. I'm squirming from second-hand embarrassment just thinking that some developer has to live this nightmare.

> Jesus, that's such a feeble, dull, uninspired way to make product decisions.

At Apple scale, though, it's probably necessary.

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