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by Jerrrrrrry 608 days ago
Some areas of expertise require so much work, it nearly prevents the student from learning to appreciate the intent, the craft, itself.

It's like being literally unable to dog

Opening a laptop, even if the last activity was blaring obnoxious carnival music, should _allow_, not _demand_ the user to resume their last function - which was explicitly to _pause_ the laptop, by closing the lid.

If I close the lid, I am done with the computer and video; it is obvious that I am done right now - the OS/browser would be alerted of LidDown, and I would expect the OS to tell the browser to Pause (via some new javascript media API that I am sure exists), pagefile ram if possible/needed, and dump all console.logs to a temp directory, in case restarting from hibernation goes awry.

If I open the lid, I am attempting to use the computer. The previous quest can be pertinent or moot; but it would be oddly assumptive (against the ethos of general computing) to _automagically_ resume (especially a paused) playback just from first button press - at least give me the option to explore, format, or rename the thing.
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AstralStorm 608 days ago
You're asking the OSes to actually implement proper session management and centralized leak controls?

It has never happened before...

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Jerrrrrrry 608 days ago
The thread shouldn't pause with AudioContext frozen in an "active" status. The thread unpauses, the AudioContext resumes before the next frame (whever thatll be) comes to remember to pause it.

Windows 7 with Youtube can figure out - even with hibernation breaking audio/bluetooth on windows - then surely the most expensive company and OS 15 years later has made an inkling of progress (if that was ever their intention)

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