cheese_greater@lemmy.world to All things mac and macOS@lemmy.ml · 2 years agoAny way to disable screen sleep on M1 Macbook Air? Besides caffeinate or Amphetamine app?message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up12
arrow-up12message-squareAny way to disable screen sleep on M1 Macbook Air? Besides caffeinate or Amphetamine app?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to All things mac and macOS@lemmy.ml · 2 years agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squarerandomStringlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI have worked around this in a Linux server by setting up a crib job to touch a file on the drive… this ping idea here is a good idea too https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/439237/how-to-keep-external-hdds-spinning-prevent-spinning-down-on-macos
minus-squareJimmycrackcrack@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoHey mate just wanted to say thanks, I tried the stack exchange suggestion and it worked, but holy shit, I had to reduce the time interval to 20 seconds before it actually helped. Crazy aggressively the drives were being turned off.
I have worked around this in a Linux server by setting up a crib job to touch a file on the drive… this ping idea here is a good idea too https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/439237/how-to-keep-external-hdds-spinning-prevent-spinning-down-on-macos
Hey mate just wanted to say thanks, I tried the stack exchange suggestion and it worked, but holy shit, I had to reduce the time interval to 20 seconds before it actually helped. Crazy aggressively the drives were being turned off.
Smart. Thanks a lot.