{"id":420,"date":"2021-08-02T22:39:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/?p=420"},"modified":"2021-08-02T22:39:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:39:22","slug":"the-first-world-problems-of-being-a-mac-pro-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/2021\/08\/the-first-world-problems-of-being-a-mac-pro-owner\/","title":{"rendered":"The First World Problems of Being a Mac Pro Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m doing some housekeeping in DEVONthink, and it&#8217;s in the process of indexing and creating thumbnails for a folder I just relocated and want to re-index.<\/p>\n<p>And I watch the progress bar move along at this leisurely pace, and then I go and check out DEVONthink&#8217;s CPU usage, and it&#8217;s sitting here politely sipping at my CPU as it gently moves through the work it has to do:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/cpu_usage.png\" alt=\"a CPU chart showing DEVONthink only using 117% CPU while doing some batch work. Meanwhile, Docker, which I'm not even using, is taking up 127% CPU.\" title=\"cpu_usage.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"525\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Umm, no, DEVONthink.<\/p>\n<p>I want you to pound these CPUs.<\/p>\n<p>I did not spend ten freaking grand on Apple&#8217;s highest end computer for you to try to be polite about resource use. I&#8217;m not on a laptop here.<\/p>\n<p>I appreciate you being polite, but look at Docker over there! I&#8217;m not even using any containers right now and Docker is happy to consume even more processor cycles than you! And even Slack is putting in a good effort while not even being visible on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Tear through these files, please! Use up the memory! I have almost 100 gigs of it just sitting right here. There&#8217;s 45 gigs <em>not even being used<\/em> right now! Come on, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m doing some housekeeping in DEVONthink, and it&#8217;s in the process of indexing and creating thumbnails for a folder I just relocated and want to re-index. And I watch the progress bar move along at this leisurely pace, and then I go and check out DEVONthink&#8217;s CPU usage, and it&#8217;s sitting here politely sipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icanthascheezburger.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}