An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

But... why?

That's pretty hilarious. Until recently I didn't think of the CPU fan as an auditory cue for how hard your system is working. But now I can remember times that excessive fan noise has prompted me to investigate the cause of excessive usage.

Pretty sure this is a response to a joke on Twitter in the Apple dev community.

This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent.

Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep learning models, the coil whine follows very regular patterns. Also, the pattern changes between training and validation. So, I can literally hear when an epoch is done.

(Of course, TensorBoard for the real monitoring.)

I keep having some rogue apps that are burning CPU for (seemingly) no reason. When I feel some warmness, I check `htop` and there it is, IINA (a media player) is pegging the CPU again.