Thinking of starting a side gig to sell overpriced wedges to keep laptops open...https://www.businessinsider.com/coders-keep-laptops-open-in-public-ai-agent-2026-5

[knud@mastodon.social]

@astro_jcm

"So, when he takes them to their weekly skating practices, he sits outside the rink and codes with AI."

People like that will pay big bucks.

[capheind@tilde.zone]

@astro_jcm
When was "power user" redefined to mean "Nimrod who uses a defective eliza bot to pretend to be a programmer." Back in My Day (tm) it used to mean "Fragile boss who buys overpriced shite"

[benknispel@chaos.social]

@astro_jcm On the other hand you could also sell a matching nifty (overprized) app that still works and keeps the laptop running even if the lid closes in the case the wedge falls off.

[astro_jcm@mastodon.online]

@knud As I was reading the various quotes I was already imagining different versions of the wedge tailored to different customers. Like a pro version with a blinking LED for those who want to use it as s conversation starter, a Bluetooth version to locate other vibe-coders nearby, or a transparent version for that one person towards the end of the article who was kind of embarrassed by it...

[astro_jcm@mastodon.online]

@benknispel with a subscription plan!!!

[quantensalat@scicomm.xyz]

@astro_jcm Pah, beginners. Real conoisseurs talk to their agents on telegram

[mschfr@mastodon.social]

@astro_jcm The funny thing is that you can configure your laptop to not go to sleep when you close it. You can ask your AI how to do that

[cmdrsprocket@mathstodon.xyz]

@mschfr @astro_jcm Came for this comment.

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@astro_jcm

Speaking of which, how does one tell #Debian 13 to ignore closing the lid when charging? I have a cat; lid closing in the midst of doing work is a frequent occurrence.

[spacebug@n3.mikronod.se]

@teledyn @astro_jcm

Maybe not exactly what you want, but if you want to disable sleep/etc completly, you can run this:

systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

[lhengstmengel@mastodon.nl]

@teledyn
Open terminal, and run:
sudo nano /etc/systemd/logind.conf

then make sure it contains the following, uncommented lines:

HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

You may need to reboot to make it work.

@astro_jcm

[zenie@piaille.fr]

@astro_jcm

Don't encourage idiocy .

[pkw@snac.d34d.net]

oh wow that reads like a joke, but i don't think it is
(the article) O_o

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@lhengstmengel @astro_jcm

oh! "man logind.conf" has all sorts of goodies!

[knud@mastodon.social]

@astro_jcm

Matte white for Macbook enthusiasts.

And the name: WaiDGE

[teledyn@mstdn.ca]

@lhengstmengel @astro_jcm

and I used vim, which I still call vi, because nano we used to call WordStar and it makes me all teary-eye nostalgic for 80186 DOS4 Borland-Product days with every key command. For me, vi came much later, formative Solaris years, yet really, thanks to the notorious µEmacs there's one key-binding mind-set that's outlived them all