These last few years, I've noticed my Mac Mini (Intel CPU, purchased late 2020) has been running hotter and hotter with every OS upgrade. Sleep the machine at night, and then it's almost too hot to touch by the morning. Digging around, it seems that Apple has installed some media-scanning software that runs in the background, categorizing faces, places, songs, etc. I've spent a couple of hours trying to turn this stuff off and keep it off – it automatically turns back on within minutes – and digging for solutions. It seems that there were work-arounds for all of this, but Apple reads the various relevant forums and has been diligently thwarting these efforts. About the only thing left that seems to work is to launch your own search-and-kill job that wakes up every minute or so to hunt down the offending daemons and zap them. You can read about how to do this here (search down to the large font "If you are on Big Sur (11) or newer, forget about all*the above solutions, none will work!" for how to deal). I'll get around to doing just this later today, and I am reasonably sure that Apple will come up with a lock-out even for this in the next round of sidegrades.
Linux man, it's looking better by the day. I don't need another hobby though.
ps, a few hours later: All seems to be working fine, with the computer's temp down to something reasonable. The three minute cron cycle seems to be working well on my Mac. Also, don't forget to make the script in the above link executable; you can see how to do this in item #3 at this link. Which, by the way, contains some excellent general info on cron which makes it worth reading to both give you some confidence when running crontab and for your own knowledge base.
pps: Apple, fix this business ASAP. If it's ticking off a die-hard like me, imagine what it's doing to more casual users.
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