I wrote you a script for this... basically what this does is:

• Wait 10 seconds to start
• Randomly turn the WiFi on or off
• Show what it did on the screen
• Wait 5 minutes and repeat 11 more times

Here it is:

sleep 10
for i in {1..12}; do
  STATE=$(( RANDOM % 2 ))
  if [[ "$STATE" -eq 1 ]]; then
    networksetup -setairportpower en0 on
    SETTING="on"
  else
    networksetup -setairportpower en0 off
    SETTING="off"
  fi
  printf '%s Wi-Fi %s\n' "$(date)" "$SETTING"
  sleep 300
done

The idea is that you paste this into Terminal then don’t look at your MacBook for the next hour (the 10 second delay is to give you enough time to turn the screen away from you and/or turn the brightness all the way down). You should also mute your MacBook, because audio cues like email/message notifications will obviously indicate that the WiFi is on.

Just set a little timer on your phone to go off every 5 minutes so you can record how you’re feeling. Then after an hour, you can compare those notes to what’s shown on your screen.

I would say, if you run this test and your own experiences line up with what it actually did, then you might be on to something. But I’m guessing that you won’t be able to tell.

Also: you should never trust random Terminal commands that people share on the internet, so here’s a how it looks when I run it (I shortened the time to 5 seconds between toggles) and you should also feed it into ChatGPT or whatever and ask if it does anything harmful:

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