Interstellar is one of my favourite movies, yet I can definitely say it’s not perfect. Hell, it’s got a few massive plot holes and the ending leaves a lot to be desired. Saying that, I still enjoyed it. I love the visuals, the BTS stuff is interesting, but most of all it made me feel. That’s what I value in media. Other people may value a coherent plot, historical accuracy, or a myriad of other things. We all like/dislike things for different reasons, and that’s okay.

I also agree that TARS was very cool.

Perhaps.

There may be easier ways to test for this, but what comes to mind is if you install your current OS again on another partition and then leave it as you usually do, and see if the fans do the same thing. If they do, it might just be a fault with the fan control or sleep state or something.

If it doesn’t happen, I’d assume something fishy is going on. Maybe try and set up a script to log your CPU usage and what’s using the most every few minutes. That might catch something?
I’ve just now had another thought. If it’s trying to be covert, maybe just leave your task manager / htop open and don’t touch anything for a while, it might think you’re afk and start running again. If it doesn’t, it could be checking to see if common monitoring tools are running and stopping itself to avoid detection, if that’s the case you’ll have to be a bit smarter about trying to catch it.

tl;dr Maybe. Run a virus scan if you can, or try and find it yourself if you think you can. If all else fails, nuke the OS and start again.

It was pretty easy to spot in htop since it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word “Monero” multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway haha

This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.