I’ve been struggling to find any resource for mac tech support/general questions. The r/mac subreddit is more of a cult or something(same with apple forums except its non competent apple employees), I’ve had the problem of siri running in the background (while having siri disabled) and it using over 100% of a cpu core, bringing the temps up by 20-30 degrees while idle, and the only answer I’ve got there was on the lines of “trust you’re computer bro, it knows more than you”. I’d love a community to ask mac specific questions and not have people who get personally offended when someone criticizes or points out a problem on apple devices.
!apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world is probably the largest, but there’s also !apple@lemmy.zip.
I’m not the greatest source of tech support, and I haven’t tried this for awhile, but have you tried booting into recovery mode (cmd+r on restart) and then using Terminal to disable csrutil?
If that works, you should be able to do a normal restart and have the ability to move the Siri application to trash.
Doesn’t this require disabling SIP? Also it’s difficult to troubleshoot in general since it happens very randomly, there will be periods of it happening hourly (force quitting in activity monitor brings the cpu usage back to 0) and then it wont happen for weeks or sometimes months, I’ve started noticing 2 years ago, shortly after buying the machine, and last time it happened was about a month or 2 ago