My car has fake engine noises piped in over the speakers (this is actually pretty common now), so maybe you're on to something. Though I doubt I'd miss fan noise myself.
An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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As I recall, the most widely used term early on was "microcomputer", to distinguish the small home computers from the larger "minicomputers" (e.g. the DEC PDP-11 of blessed memory). The term "personal computer" was also in use, but the use of "PC" was not common until after the introduction of the IBM model 5150 (whose actual product name was the "IBM Personal Computer"). Since then, you might refer to any of a varie…
Lots of Apple’s print ads in the 70s used the term Personal Computer: http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/1977IntroApple... http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/AisFor1.jpg http://www.macmothership.com/gallery/MiscAds2/ad24.jpg
Sure; I don't disagree (and perhaps my previous post was less clear about this) that "personal computer" was definitely in common use, particular in advertising aimed at "regular consumers" rather than hobbyists, and well before the IBM PC.
I do disagree with the suggestion that the initialism "PC" was understood to mean "personal computer" in general before the release of the IBM PC. If that's overly pedantic, well, I'm a computer nerd; what can I say...
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#423Pre M1, I've always preferred a PC. When I'm using a laptop, especially doing real work, they heat up, the fans go crazy, the laptop is hot to the touch and everything slows down. It almost makes you anxious. You're wondering if it's about to crash or go on fire. I've always kept a Desktop PC on the go for this reason, a well cooled desktop just doesn't have these issues. With a laptop, I always feel like I'm comprom…
The only thing I've been able to do to get an M1 to spin up the fan noticeably and get warm is to max out both the CPU and the GPU by playing Minecraft Java in a huge world or running other 3D-heavy things.
The same things on an Intel laptop will turn it into what my friend comically calls a "weenie roaster" (for what it does when it's on your lap).
Things like JetBrains CLion don't even make the M1 warm. That will make any Intel laptop start cookin'.
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#424Earlier quoted context omitted.
My workflow for research is like this: - open link, determine if it’s relevant or not. If it’s relevant, but not relevant right now, I’ll dump it into my notes. - then I close the tab. Pretty simple. - when the time comes where that link is relevant again, I’ll find it in my notes and open it. - I really don’t find any value in having tabs open that aren’t immediately relevant to what I’m doing. 10 seems like the upp…
> I really don’t find any value in having tabs open that aren’t immediately relevant to what I’m doing. 10 seems like the upper limit of focus for me. It's clear that you do understand the value of preserving tabs that aren't immediately relevant to what you're doing. What's the difference in value between writing tabs in your notes and simply not closing them? I'd understand if there weren't tree-style tabs - you ca…
> What's the difference in value between writing tabs in your notes and simply not closing them?
Well, one is indexed, searchable, tagged, and available whenever and wherever I want.
The other is ephemeral and maybe, hopefully I can find it and maybe hopefully I didn’t close it out, and maybe hopefully I remember the name so I can find it in my search history.
Managing tabs with useful info instead of writing them down sounds like a living nightmare.
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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>only two screens Honestly I feel like multi monitor setups are actually worse than single monitor. Having to bend your neck to use some of your windows left me with neck pain. Now I only use one large monitor and use the workspace switching shortcuts to move everything around so I only look forwards. My productivity is identical and my neck feels better. I'd only say its worth it for when you really do need to see a…
That's a problem with two monitors, specifically if you try to place them evenly. Neither monitor is centered. Designate one of them as the 'main' monitor, and put anything you need to work with for long periods of time on that. Add an office chair, so you can swiwel to look straight at the other(s) instead of twisting your neck. And you'll find there's no such issue.
I just wish I could find a good series of monitors with matching vertical size and dot pitch but different aspect ratios. My best use case would be a 27" 16:9 primary monitor directly in front of me with a 4:3 secondary on the right or left. It would be fantastic to put a 1920x1440 next to my 2560x1440 center display with them being the same physical size.
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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Can anyone explain to me the psychology of having 30 tabs open? Why not just bookmark the URLs to an ephemeral folder or something? Having more than 10 tabs open is beyond stressful for me, and honestly I can’t see how having more open would make anyone more productive. Really curious to learn about other workflows and excessive tab use is one I’m morbidly curious about.
How can you do research without going beyond 10 tabs? I typically go horizontal. If i'm trying to solve problem, will middle click on top 5 results etc and go through them until problem solved. Then there is research on various topics that require deep dives into papers, those papers then have citations that require other papers or open up other queries. Then going through email generate various links that I need to…
I drag excess tabs into their own windows to group them by subtopic. Too many tabs makes it too hard to track what all the tabs are. When there are more than 2 windows of 10 tabs I’ll move over to collecting and grouping annotated links in notes.
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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M1 mac is also my first Apple product. And now i bought magic mouse 2 and fuck Apple. It is like laggy.
The default mouse settings are always too slow for my liking; I always speed up the tracking speed. I haven't used a Magic Mouse on a regular basis for a while (had both the v1 and v2), but once I updated the setting, it was as snappy as I wanted.
I already set tracking speed to highest but this is really one of the worst mouse i have ever used. Only reason i am still using it my other bluetooth mouse is seriously laggy when i use with m1 mac.
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#428Pre M1, I've always preferred a PC. When I'm using a laptop, especially doing real work, they heat up, the fans go crazy, the laptop is hot to the touch and everything slows down. It almost makes you anxious. You're wondering if it's about to crash or go on fire. I've always kept a Desktop PC on the go for this reason, a well cooled desktop just doesn't have these issues. With a laptop, I always feel like I'm comprom…
My experience is just the opposite, when I run even to projects on intelliJ on a mac m1 8gb, the whole system just starts lagging to the point that I cant even scroll the code. This has not been a good experience for me.
There was a bug with Android Studio (and I think IntelliJ as well) on M1, not sure if there still is.
You can fix it by setting 'Prefer Tabs' to never - https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/jtbl4m/has_anyo...
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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I bought a Lenovo P1 Gen 3 a couple of months ago and the fans spin while the machine is sleeping. I'd love to know if it's crappy thermal design from Lenovo, crappy CPUs from Intel, or Windows sleep mode being too demanding. Maybe it's all three?
Depends on which A1, S2, S3, stage it is etc. And laptops differ from manufacturer to type and models.
Lenovo supports S0, S4, or S5 in their newest machines. I changed my settings to use hibernate (S4) rather than S5 (modern sleep).
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#430I didn’t think a discussion about a toy app would be so interesting, but it turned out to bring a lot of great anecdotes.