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Originally Posted by whismerhill
O_o you start an unattended batch job without plugging the power ??
are you serious ?
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O_o you check to see if the power is connected every time you click the convert button in calibre, or the fetch news button or the download metadata button, really? Are you serious?
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also closing the lid generally overrides whichever software setting prevent sleep, depending on how it's set up for the particular device.
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generally - really so when a user posses a laptop that does not obey this "general" principle of yours and he complains that calibre caused his laptop to die unexpectedly, you are going to deal with the bug reports?
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There's already software that prevents sleep :
-insomnia a little application that prevents sleep & does nothing else (intended for such situations as software which doesn't provide the functionnality)
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Right and windows control panel has a button to turn off sleep, what has that got to do with anything?
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-some download applications also have options to prevent sleep given that they need to finish downloading at some point ...
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Like when the laptop comes out of sleep...
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-most media players generally prevent sleep too (otherwise your computer might go to sleep in the middle of that movie, if you didn't touch any of the computer controls) ...
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You are comparing the active watching of a movie with running background tasks? What?
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What's more you don't need a laptop to benefit from sleep, a desktop can be put to sleep with benefits : e.g. all your programs stay where they were and you can start over whatever you were working on on wakeup nearly instantly (with normal sleep, not deep sleep)
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And if you have a program that prevents it from going to sleep you lose all those benefits.
Putting a computer to sleep is a user's decision. It is not the job of applications to second guess his choice.