I had the MacBook on my lap, as intended. While I was browsing my Mastodon feed, I decided to start a `port selfupdate` in the background. A few minutes later, I noticed my legs burning: all 18 cores were at 100% utilization while rebuilding llvm, then clang, then rust.
🧵 8/N
Kernel Bob :progress_pride:
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