Just wait, we’ll soon have an app for that — the equivalent of fake engine sound for EVs.

I like the idea. An app that roars louder the higher the cpu load.

Nullsoft (remember them?) had 'beep' which was always a joy to run.

https://www.1014.org/code/nullsoft/nbeep/

Of Winamp fame? Of course!

Haha!!!

Sorry but is this crazy to need the fan to sense the performance!

That is true in many situations, like a remote server. That's why we have top on the commandline, or iStat Menus. But I'm not sure if iStat Menus actually works on the new machines.

https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

Those are passive solutions. You'd be looking at them after you realize something doesn't look right.

iStat or similar can do a notification if a process is taking high CPU usage for a while.

Servers have their own solutions like monitoring daemons that sends out an alert if CPU usage had been too high for a while.

Totally broke my workflow: https://xkcd.com/1172/

I was wondering something similar. VSCode tends to fly off the handle every once in a while and the only way I notice currently is a subtle lagging and the fan spinning up.

Though recently I switched back to VIM so perhaps this won't be an issue anymore.