diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 742b2bf..4a92144 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -25,23 +25,23 @@ mkdir workdir && cd workdir
 mkdir zlib libssl DPP poomer-discord sqlite3 && cd zlib
 git clone https://github.com/madler/zlib.git .
 ./configure --static
-make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+make -j$(nproc)
 cd ../libssl && git clone https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git .
 ./Configure $([ "$(uname -m)" = "aarch64" ] && echo "linux-aarch64" || echo "linux-x86_64") 
-make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+make -j$(nproc)
 cd ../DPP && git clone https://github.com/brainboxdotcc/DPP.git .
 #zlib wants an absolute path to help cmake find_package work, ssl requires explicit vars
 cmake -B ./build \
   -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="$PWD/../zlib;$PWD/../libssl"
-cmake --build ./build -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+cmake --build ./build -j$(nproc)
 cd ../sqlite3
 wget https://www.sqlite.org/2025/sqlite-autoconf-3510100.tar.gz
 tar xzf sqlite-autoconf-3510100.tar.gz --strip-components=1
-./configure --enable-static --disable-shared && make -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared && make -j$(nproc)
 cd ../poomer-discord && git clone https://git.indoodle.com/oomer/poomer-discord.git .
 wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image.h
 wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nothings/stb/master/stb_image_write.h
-make all -j$(sysctl -n hw.ncpu)
+make all -j$(nproc)
 ```
 
 ### MacOS x64 and arm64