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Yeah that's about it. What I find really offensive, which my Mac likes to remind me of regularly on the energy usage side of things, is the siloed vats of excr
by hughrr 5y ago
Yeah that's about it.
What I find really offensive, which my Mac likes to remind me of regularly on the energy usage side of things, is the siloed vats of excrement that JavaScript, Browsers and Electron have enabled. These are absolutely horrible to use compared to native applications and each one has its own ozone hole above it. If I don't open a browser or Electron app my battery lasts 2x as long.
I do the occasional bit of Swift with XCode just for fun and to concentrate on that case really does disservice to the real elephant in the room above because at least Swift is not burning the universe to the ground and recompiling bits of it every time you click something. When you're done it's native.
Edit: personal wastage shitlit: Lens, Discord, Teams, Slack, VScode. VScode gets a pass as it doesn't annoy me as much as the others.
- FridgeSeal 5y agoTeams is the worst offender: it will single-handedly cycle my battery on a medium-long video call. That’s just battery usage, not even touching on general performance, how buggy the app is in general.
- hughrr 5y agoIt's not that bad on my M1 MacBook Air to be fair. I had to do a training session which was 3h long on Teams and it ate 20% of the MBA's battery. It was horrible on the previous Intel i5 MBP though. I refused to install it on my M1Pro MBP!
- breakfastduck 5y agoHonestly the worst performing app ive ever used in my life. It makes any machine running it slow as shit. When someone is sharing video / screen share its even worse. I absoutely cannot fathom how it passes any form of QA.
- alwaysanon 5y ago100% This is the new Flash that Steve Jobs successfully railed against ruining the battery life and performance of Macs back in the day - https://youtu.be/EMXwa9EtehE https://youtu.be/EMXwa9EtehE. And things got soo much better for awhile when that went away. I feel with JavaScript and especially everything being Electron (I shudder to think how many copies of Chromium I am running at the moment) we've backtracked back to those days - but worse.