2026-03-25 09:37 UTC
I don't like having the mouse actually wiggle for teams to stay active. Makes it really annoying to jump back in when you get an impromptu call and have to fiddle with things to get the wiggler back off.
There's a program called caffeine that instead simulates a button like F15 (so one that's unlikely to show up on a real keyboard or be mapped to do anything) being pressed once a minute, so you can just set the program to run and it will never interfere with you actually using the computer.
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@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2026-03-25 10:46
I'm a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals... All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I'm out the door.
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@vatlark@lemmy.world 2026-03-25 10:31
Yeah caffeine has been around a long time. I'm sure these simple solutions won't last much longer. They will us AI to monitor the actions are meaningful so people will use AI to make the actions look meaningful and so on...
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@Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2026-03-25 19:16
Yes, Caffeine is staple, I've been using it for decades (under windows too)! (Also I've never actually noticed my mouse move by one pixel during work.)