Monday, July 15, 2019

Infinite Night Shift

Austin Johnsen (via Ashley Bischoff):

TIL that if you go North of the Arctic Circle in the summer and bring a MacBook with Night Shift set to be triggered by sunrise/sunset, the process will go into an infinite loop because the sun never sets...

I noticed this when my computer fan went crazy because my CPU was running at 120% trying to calculate when sunset was in order to trigger Night Shift. As soon as I turned Night Shift off, that process disappeared and the fan spun back down...

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This is one of the first things I added to my unit tests when adding sun-based custom effect activation in Black Light Pro.

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