Macbook Pro running slow and hot, fans constantly running

Although DuckDuckGo has a great search engine, you have made the mistake of also installing its VPN. That is bad. you also installed it personal information remover. that is worse.

And you also installed PART of another VPN, named Google One, and it is not signed and could very well be malware:

User Launch Agents:

[Other] VPN by Google One.plist (Not signed - installed 2023-04-20)

Command: /Applications/VPN by Google One.app/Contents/MacOS/VPN by Google One --autolaunch

VPN:

A virtual private network, or VPN, is a private connection over the Internet from a device to a specific network.  VPN technology is widely used in corporate environments. 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 (and almost always MUCH slower) connection to a VPN vendor's Network, except to make it easier for them to harvest your data to sell. If you are behind a Router you control or Trust, there is NO security advantage whatsoever in using a VPN. Your connections are already encrypted in most cases.

If VPN vendors just stopped there, it 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.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

you appear to have some other unusual security app named OFSHOR SEKYURITI EOOD installed.

The idea that a third party, with no special knowledge of the inner workings of MacOS, can somehow find a simple way to protect or speed up your computer — that is not already being done by MacOS itself — suggests that the MacOS developers are somehow "holding out on you". That is absurd.

You should remove any and all (other than Apple built-in) virus scanners, speeder uppers, optimizers, cleaners, App deleters or VPN packages you installed yourself, or anything of that ilk.

Your exceptionally well-crafted Macintosh computer does not accumulate filth that needs any third-party anything to clean it. Everything needed to run it efficiently was included in the box, except ONE: a drive on which to store a second copy of your files in case the first copy is damaged or deleted by accident. The backup software, Time Machine, is already present -- integrated deeply into MacOS.

Has your new shiny drive stored at least the first full backup yet?

mds tasks are using lot of processing power, suggesting backups may be actively computing what needs to be saved to disk. this should quiet down a lot when the first full backup is saved to disk.

You can use Finder's GO menu to find these folders, and move offending items to the Trash. They may not be immediately removable until after a Restart allows them to be disconnected from the running MacOS.

/Library/Launch Daemons

any files starting with:

com.google

com.offshoresecurity

/Library/Launch Agents

any files starting with:

com.google

~/Library/Launch Agents where Tilde [~] is an active abbreviation for "current logged in user"

any files starting with:

com.dropbox.dropboxmacupdate.agent.plist

com.dropbox.dropboxmacupdate.xpcservice.plist

for optimum performance:

settings > general > Login Items and Extensions > Open at login ...

Remove:

Cisco Webex Meetings

DropBox

Slack

Spotify

these items do not need to be running at all times in the background, and they are smart enough to launch on demand when needed.

BackgroundShortcutRunner may be stuck. it is using a LOT of CPU.

A fix I found with a quick internet search (but I am unable to verify, as I don't use that feature) :

Turn off iCloud syncing in shortcuts app settings.

Delete the contents of folder found at : ~/Library/shortcuts

Restart Mac,

run shortcuts,

turn back on iCloud sync.

Now should be working as normal.

your report does not show that you are currently running Google Chrome browser, but you did install Google keystone agent, and you are sending a record of every web access for google to sell.

Chrome is particularly resource-intensive because it installs Google which renders your Mac a full time information-harvesting and -uploading "bot" for Google's purposes. Those processes can't be turned off or disabled, even if you quit the Chrome browser. Even without knowing what else is installed on that Mac it is all but assured a multitude of Google's automatically updating virus-like processes are causing your Mac to work overtime.

Get rid of it. No one needs Chrome. Follow these removal instructions.

—senior contributor John Galt

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95319?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop#zippy=%2Cmac

https://chromeisbad.com/

you have remote login enabled. unless that is something you use every week, that is a security risk and should be turned OFF.

you have another unsigned file installed:

Unsigned Files:

Running app: /Library/DropboxHelperTools/Dropbox_u501/dbkextd

Details: Domain name invalid - possibly malware

the version of Recoverit installed is outdated. Nothing should be using Kernel extensions, as they are about to go away completely.

Recoverit is also a nod to the outdated notion that we make partial additional copies of directory entires, and files will be recoverable using those. In the age of SSDs, that is simply no longer the case. The way we recover from a data disaster is by restoring from a recent Time Machine Backup.

You should make a Trusted backup on an external drive and throw Recoverit and its outdated approach away.

are you still using the UART serial device that this driver is trying to talk to? if not you should remove its driver:

SiLabsUSBDriver64.kext - com.silabs.driver.CP210xVCPDriver64 (3.0.0d1)

these I-user launch items are not signed. they could be damaged or malware.

  [Not Loaded] com.dropbox.dropboxmacupdate.agent.plist (Not signed - installed 2025-03-10)

    <Empty>

  [Not Loaded] com.dropbox.dropboxmacupdate.xpcservice.plist (Not signed - installed 2025-03-10)

    <Empty>

Third-party file Sync-ers such as DropBox, BackBlaze, OneDrive, or GoogleDrive can ruin performance, but are not inherently dangerous.

They were Quickly ported from that other Operating System, and were never re-written to take advantage of the MacOS ‘File System Event Store’.  The typical brute-force search they use takes all afternoon for one pass. That relentless searching is a completely un-necessary waste of resources.

if you must continue to use them, be sure to launch ONLY when needed, and QUIT when your files have been sync-ed.

Synch and Backup programs like iCloud Drive and Time Machine that DO use the MacOS File System Event Store can find changes really quickly and be done with their work and suspend themselves. Time machine can run backups Hourly, while all those others are still beating on the file system for the first pass, four hours later. By the time those others have finished one pass, they need to start again.

are you using Karios Duet display?

if not, move this file to Trash and Restart:

~/Downloads/Duet.app

    [Not Loaded] DuetDisplay.kext - com.karios.driver.DuetDisplay (1.1.1 - SDK 10.10)

these functions my be available in AirPlay, built in to MacOS

Your options are severely limited beach you do not appear to have a backup of your files.

If you do not have a recent local, disk-based backup, your computer is like a ticking Time bomb. You are only one disk failure, one mainboard failure, one crazy software, or one "oops" away from losing EVERYTHING! Drives do not last forever. It is not a question of IF it will fail, only WHEN it will fail. In addition, you never know when crazy software or Pilot Error throws away far more than you intended.

If you are using another direct-to-disk backup method that you prefer, and you currently have a recent disk-based backup, that is great. If not, you should consider using Built-in Time Machine. Take steps to acquire an external drive as soon as possible. If you buy one, a drive 2 to 3 times or larger than your boot drive is preferable for long term trouble-free operation. Do not pay extra for a drive that is fast.  (You can get by for a while with a "found" smaller drive if necessary, but it will eventually become annoying).

Attach your external drive and use

Settings > General > Time machine ...

... to turn on Time Machine and specify what drive to store your Backups on.  It may ask to initialize the new drive, and that is as expected. APFS format is default format if running MacOS 11 Big Sur or later.

Time machine works quietly and automatically in the background, without interrupting your regular work, and only saves the incremental changes (after the first full backup). Time machine backs up your machine — including every connected drive that is in a Mac compatible format. it can not back up Windows format drives.

Time Machine's "claim to fame" is that it is the backup that gets done. It does not ruin performance of the rest of the computer while doing its backup operations. You do not have to set aside a "Special Time" when you only do backups. When you need it, your Time machine Backup is much more likely to be there and be current.

How to use Time Machine to Backup or Restore your Mac:

Back up your Mac with Time Machine - Apple Support

Your wounds appear to be completely self-inflicted.

Over the years, I have read hundreds of Etrecheck reports and complaints of poor performance. I have accumulated a list of categories of junk that can be added to a Mac that DIRECTLY causes poor performance.

Your Etrecheck report touches almost every one of them.

Are you willing to do the work involved in removing that junk and getting your performance back?