Music is either supplied by a single YouTube tab or Spotify, and that's it. When I'm in development mode with all cylinders firing, I have a single Eclipse window in CDT perspective, a couple of terminal tabs, Zeal (or Dash) for documentation and a couple of firefox tabs for documentation not available in Zeal. > I’m not exactly representative, but I think the stddev of usage patterns is high across developers. Any machine, any OS (with M1 MacBook Air's HW configuration) would trash its SSD while swapping in that case, IMHO. This is heavy load for any machine unless it's configured as a bona fide workstation. But it’s a coin toss whether he’ll just have to eat the cost and buy a new one:

We had a heart to heart about how silly it was that the drive will die within a year, that Apple better replace it under warranty, and so on. One poor guy on Twitter is already up to 18% of his SSD lifetime, in the first three months of having an M1. I assume Apple QA never tested the extreme edges of workloads. Each step takes around 45 seconds to complete.

The unfortunate part is, when it freezes, it does the beachball for a full minute before I successfully execute a “switch to activity monitor / s click topmost process / force quit / confirm” sequence. I’m not exactly representative, but I think the stddev of usage patterns is high across developers. Heavy load in my case is a few dozen terminal tabs, six of which are running TPU training jobs, 40 chrome tabs, a few of which are playing twitch streams and YouTube videos, a half dozen instances of pycharm, one webstorm, one clion, around 35 macvim windows, and a few dozen PDFs open in Preview.

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