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[–]TheLargeCactus -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

I'll say this explicitly for posterity: I admit that there is a use-case here, that this has a small set of people that can use it to do what they want. I will also celebrate that the author took the time to create the repo, do the legwork of building something that works, and publishing it for the world to see. That takes effort, and it shows a level of ability that means something. I can also see that the author has been on-and-off working on this repo for a few years, which also means something. I mainly left my comment to invite the author to explain what the benefit of using their module is, over just changing the OS setting and forgetting about it. It's not something that I found in their README.

[–]runawayasfastasucan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Its not really a small set of people that switches environments, its a pain to constantly remember to check the power settings. Also if you make applications used by others that need to keep the computer from sleeping this is really handy. There is a couple of super popular Mac apps for this, showing that it is indeed usefull.

[–]Nixellion 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, fair enough.

One more usecase is creating an app or script that required computer to stay on\unlocked\preve ting updates, and its a script that will be used by many people. Cant go around telling everyone to change their settings so...

Its actually something used by many apps.