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I remember having this thought while watching TNG - if the computer was having trouble processing a "recursive algorithm" you'd know about it from a series of hesitant chirrups.

I've thought about making an app that lets you know what's happening in the background with a black bar that has jets of colour move across it when something happens, with different speed, colour, and shapes based on various attributes, like which app the activity came from, and what type of activity it was.

>>whalab+(OP)
I use Task Manager to monitor the progress of some long-running tasks that have no progress feedback in their application. The memory and CPU use graphs follows familiar patterns and I get a sense of how far it's got and some confidence that it hasn't crashed. It would be nicer in audio though.