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  • My wife has worked with lots of people who are not native English speakers who are sometimes taken aback by the idioms. One colleague flat out refused to accept that “FOMO” is a word.

    I suggested that she is in a position to make some up, like “Let’s not put fish in the milk bucket.” But she didn’t go for it. I guess she’s not an agent of chaos after all :/





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    7 days ago

    Are you using swayidle? It’s supposed to automatically keep the screen on when there is full-screen video playing. It’s the same in Gnome: you generally don’t need caffeine if a full-screen video is going.

    How are you playing videos? Maybe the player doesn’t correctly implement the idle inhibit protocol. Or if you’re using sway bindings to make the window fullscreen instead of using the app’s own fullscreen mode then maybe the player doesn’t know it’s fullscreen, and doesn’t set up the idle inhibit.

    If you do want manual idle inhibit control, if you use Waybar it has an idle inhibitor module that mimics caffeine. If you don’t use Waybar there is a little Python script you can run. Kill it when you want to stop inhibiting idle. actually wib looks like a better option