(from my notes) Disabling swap: - Disable SIP (`csrutil disable` from recovery environment terminal) - `sudo nvram boot-args="vm_compressor=2"` in macos terminal - reboot, confirm with `sysctl -a vm.compressor_mode`

`browser.cache.disk.enable` = false in Firefox `about:config` (I think there's more to this, but I can't recall, more research required)

I disabled spotlight altogether among some other services, for some reason I didn't finish my notes. It's a start though!.

+1. When there were still spinning HDDs, some of this fuckery was obvious, like spotlight indexing all the time like crazy. This might still happen, or happen again, but we sheeple would'nt know because SDDs are much quieter than HDDs.