You're not wrong, but you're in the wrong place to talk to people about low-probability events and how they multiply. Most Hacker News can't into elementary-school-level probability equations and will instead take the ostrich approach; there was some behavioral scientist dude from Cambridge Analytica who wrote about this and the TL;DR is that most "adults" have infantile minds that prefer various safety blanket mechanisms that society is more than ready to offer them just to do anything to have an excuse to not face the truth of what basic math reveals to more likely than not be true.
Speaking of Drake equations, you should (1) see the other comment here with this account name (2) check out the top Pirate Bay rip of Dark City (which predated that other movie) and turn on the English subtitles and count the number of times the characters look at or make gestures pointing to certain alignments of the text in the subtitles and, if you're true "hackers", try to figure out the encrypted messages in the text alignments that the characters are looking at/pointing to at key moments – and then when/if you figure out what the encrypted messages mean, try to figure out how the director worked together backwards so that they could have a script that aligns a certain way using subtitles and then make the scenes so that the actors are looking/pointing to key spots at just the right time.
If you appreciate technical things, you'd be in for a treat.
Thank you for you reply, I'll make note of this if I go to a repair shop.
Just not sure how the processor definitely works very smooth, very fast, just like as if I restarted it whenever I take it out of the fridge, but the sensor is somehow reading ~200º.
Thank you for the reply and advice – I will probably pursue this if it keeps up, even though it seems to have happened much more dramatically after the last OS update.
Regardless, I'm still unsure how it can read these temperatures since the "put in freezer for a while" method seems to work when it does this and everything gets "un-sluggish" right away and starts working as well as if I restart it, no matter how many things are open.
So it's like the processor "works as if it wasn't overheating", but for some reason the temperature readings for things like synching sometimes don't work because it reads the temp as approaching ~200º, and even external apps read it as such (though I realize they may just be repeating an internal OS error).
Air is a very poor heat conductor, and among the best insulators. The thermal paste conducts the heat much more quickly. If it’s not touching maximum surface area on the things you want to conduct heat between, and the heat has to dissipate solely through the air that’s touching the processor, that’s much less effective at cooling.
Having said that I've had this model for quite a while now and have been doing this since I can remember and never had this issue until the latest macOS update, which from what I've researched seems to be affecting loads of people with all sorts of newer, much fancier processors than what I have.
While I will definitely keep your advice in mind going forward, it seems that this issue sprung up only after this last update, which is strange because I remember reading something about "improved energy management" or some such.
I see and thank you for your reply; I just have one more question: If you select "desktop interaction", doesn't that by default "unselect" browser ... um ... "selection"?
In other words, when desktop is selected, how does my desktop "know" that of all the other possibly relevant things open (for example, a notes or word processing app), that it's "Oh, you probably wanted to undo what you just typed into your browser while you were on a website in edit mode"??
Is it purely a function of "undo last thing done"?
Having said that, I just noticed that "it's you again".
As a side question, do you have a tab with my submission history perma-opened?
Because I find it odd that you of all people "just happened to stumble across this" 2 minutes after I posted it.
Also I still am not quite clear how "my desktop functioning as the browser" sends the signal to Reddit's servers to "undo" the deletion when the Reddit site itself doesn't have this option (unless you hit "cancel" and revert to the last saved version – which STILL doesn't explain things since new "New Reddit" in browser mode now by default saves last changes made in edit mode once you open it (instead of the reverted to "last version saved" if you hit the cancel button in edit mode).
Sure, I get that parts of Reddit may be localized in my browser until I hit "save" to save edits, but again, I don't get how "my desktop OS" knows to make corrections to the browser instead of, for example, an open word processing document or a notes app when the browser is "unselected" and the OS functions are available.
