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by foundart 977 days ago
Yikes! TIL that with Apple Silicon it is impossible to stop the computer from auto-booting on lid open or key press. There was an nvram hack that worked for Intel machines but it has no effect now. What a "feature."

I've added a user account "Clean" and will do cleaning after locking the screen while logged into that account. If I happen to disable its login via failed logins due to keypresses while cleaning, I can switch back to my normal account and reset it.

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there are a few apps that I don't want to quit any time (about once every 2 weeks) that I want to clean my laptop keyboard.

currently, I'm fighting slack to make sure it doesn't update again.