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Great! I always used sudo pmset disablesleep 1 Is a great app
I was about ready to warn you that was a trademark, but it isn’t I think, only the generic name. Nice work.
I was thinking of building this yesterday...
The name is crazy! Was searching for something like that
"Is modafinil better than caffeinate"
The macOS sleep-prevention naming canon: caffeinate (built-in), Amphetamine (App Store), and now modafinil. At this rate the next one's going to require a prescription.
Not that I'm against the idea behind the software, but the amount of name-stealing because it sounds cool (sometimes kind of relevant, sometimes not) that software has done, has totally polluted the original words to the point they sometimes don't show up in search results.

Even the two Steve's and their Apple company had this issue (as did record companies etc. etc.). Try searching for python now and 'nary a snake to be mentioned.

To be fair I'm equally pissed off that a bunch of different pharmaceutical companies re-brand identical molecules with different names for each company and sometimes for different countries even within a single company.

Sometimes all this naming cleverness or arbitrariness just makes the world more confusing for everyone.

God the name was very triggering as someone who worked in the valley 2011-2018 time frame…
People in SF need this. Too many cracked open Macs running agents have been spotted outside public bathrooms haha ;-)