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Disable the desktop authomatic clean up: I wisKeep desktop icons organized my own way
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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 1339197" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>I'm shocked that your religion allows you even that one icon on your Desktop. <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Innocent.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="O:)" title="Innocent O:)" data-shortname="O:)" /></p><p></p><p>Don't you know that you can turn that off and access your hard disk through the Computer window, or the Finder sidebar?!</p><p></p><p>Don't you know that keeping that hard-disk icon on your Desktop causes the system to composite an entire new context onto the screen? Why, over the course of your Mac's lifespan, you'll have used billions and billions of processor and GPU cycles to draw that icon! All those cycles add up, you know! If you use your Mac for five years, and add up all those drawing operations, you've probably wasted...oh, possibly as much as a hundredth of a second, just re-drawing that little icon!</p><p></p><p>You should be ashamed, <em>ashamed</em>, at wasting all of those precious GPU resources just so you, you lazy, slothful human, can open your hard disk a little bit faster. How <em>dare</em> you put your personal productivity above your Mac's efficiency! </p><p></p><p>Go! Go—Now!—to your Finder's preferences, and turn of that wasteful, decadent disk icon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 1339197, member: 4134"] I'm shocked that your religion allows you even that one icon on your Desktop. O:) Don't you know that you can turn that off and access your hard disk through the Computer window, or the Finder sidebar?! Don't you know that keeping that hard-disk icon on your Desktop causes the system to composite an entire new context onto the screen? Why, over the course of your Mac's lifespan, you'll have used billions and billions of processor and GPU cycles to draw that icon! All those cycles add up, you know! If you use your Mac for five years, and add up all those drawing operations, you've probably wasted...oh, possibly as much as a hundredth of a second, just re-drawing that little icon! You should be ashamed, [i]ashamed[/i], at wasting all of those precious GPU resources just so you, you lazy, slothful human, can open your hard disk a little bit faster. How [i]dare[/i] you put your personal productivity above your Mac's efficiency! Go! Go—Now!—to your Finder's preferences, and turn of that wasteful, decadent disk icon. [/QUOTE]
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