(from my notes) Disabling swap: - Disable SIP (`csrutil disable` from recovery environment terminal) - `sudo nvram boot-args="vm_compressor=2"` in macos terminal - reboot, confirm with `sysctl -a vm.compressor_mode`

`browser.cache.disk.enable` = false in Firefox `about:config` (I think there's more to this, but I can't recall, more research required)

I disabled spotlight altogether among some other services, for some reason I didn't finish my notes. It's a start though!.