Macbook Pro 16 with M3 Pro 18 GB super slow

the two most glaring issues in your report [in my opinion] are that you are using Chrome for your browser, which is an enormous resource hog.

and this:

    /Applications/ExpressVPN.app

If you need to be "present" on an institutional network, a VPN is a great tool for accomplishing this. it is generally issued and controlled by the institution.

Almost all other uses are a SCAM. There is generally no need for you to have a private connection to a VPN Vendor's Network, except to make it easier for them to harvest your data to sell.

if VPN vendors just stopped there, that would be bad. But many of these packages also insist on scanning all your files, non-stop, -- nominally looking for viruses, but who knows for sure what data they are harvesting. Their non-stop file reading punishes your computer's performance in the process.

Some also break into your other secure connections so they can be FIRST to examine your data, often leaving your Mac MORE vulnerable to attack.

In most cases, having a VPN Installed on your computer (actively engaged or not) is like being only Slightly pregnant.

For a far less resource consuming Browser, Safari is the obvious choice. if you hate the idea of using "what Apple handed you" consider Third-party Firefox, that is not selling your data to run its company.

... and speaking of not selling your data, my son suggested selecting (inside Safari) Duck Duck Go as a substitute search engine (not for the complete browser) and I was amazed at perfectly high quality searching without the cacophony of ads in every corner of every page. I have lost NOTHING but abuse by this selection, and have never considered going back to Google-search.

the version you pasted shows up there as double-spaced, you is even harder to read than ususal

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trendyfalcon wrote:

Wierd, that's exactly the way I exported it. I'll try again here.

ah, thanks, that is much better.