[moralestapia]

Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.

[dajonker]

I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).

[amluto]

You must be using only lame languages like C or Go or Python that aren’t optimized for laptop warming during compilation. Try using a Real Language with a Real Compiler, like C++ or Rust or Swift, and build decent-sized projects using all cores.

(All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)

[woozlewuzzle]

You could also build Chromium from source. It makes my M1 Max's fans sing.

[asdff]

I get them going full blast in 2 minutes from cities skylines.

[tom_]

I left my Mac Studio running at 100% CPU on all cores for 14 hours, and the case ended up noticeably warm to the touch. It is possible!

[therein]

Honestly m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it but at this point m4 max does get pretty hot even with just web browsing.

[gpm]

I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)

[inventor7777]

Can't say I've ever thought of a word like "developery", but now that I've seen it I like it a lot :-)

[asdff]

Try increasing to 10 cores. Works on my m3 pro.

[mjmas]

https://xkcd.com/1172/

[lifestyleguru]

TBH there was a shameful period when producers were "reinventing" QWERTY keyboard and had a better idea whether Ctrl key should be present and where it should be located. Remember when Apple removed the Esc key?

[nullbyte]

sanest emacs user

[RAZKOM]

There really is an xkcd for everything