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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by skavi on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:17PM (#27876768)
I like it if the laptop only starts the fan up when the device actually is working. Not constantly turning it on and off during like light web browsing.

My 2018 MBP 13” and the Surface Laptop I’ve tried did that well. An XPS 15 I’m currently using does not.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by freeone3000 on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:20PM (#27876782)
Web browsing isn't a light activity anymore. Web pages consume more memory and more CPU than my text editor
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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by mgerullis on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:41AM (#27879880)
Has there been a time in history where web browsing was lighter than text editing, ever?
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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by exikyut on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:05PM (#27897083)
No, but there is now, "thanks" to Electron :P

More specifically, HN would use less RAM than VSC would to open a .txt file.

Eh, not bad. not good; we don't know what the new goalpost positions mean yet.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by skavi on Sunday July 18, 2021 @06:51PM (#27877401)
That’s why I specified “light web browsing”.
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