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Just running Creative Cloud's daemons seems to double my Macbook's power usage. (I have a startup script to kill most of it because of this.) Maybe the battery
by herf 2y ago
Just running Creative Cloud's daemons seems to double my Macbook's power usage. (I have a startup script to kill most of it because of this.) Maybe the battery life tail wagging the dog here, but there is something smart about displacing this mess with an...app? Which is all I ever wanted.
- robenkleene 2y agoDeep-down I wonder how big a deal this is at Apple. As someone who's sensibility aligns with Apple's approach to design and software architecture (e.g., I strongly believe the Magic Mouse charging port on the bottom is the the right decision), and I use Adobe products heavily: I don't mind the price, and I don't mind the subscription. But I despise, deeply, from the bottom of my soul, that Adobe Creative Cloud runs a background process on my machine, even when the applications aren't running. That is an affront. There are days I wonder if the entire reason for the locked-down iOS App Store and Mac app sandboxing is purely just to try and figure out some approach to software distribution that never lets Adobe run an invisible background process on their hardware ever again.
- nativeit 2y agoIf you want to dive deeper into that Adobe CC madness, run something like AdGuard on your network and see how Adobe’s telemetry calls are the #1 source of network traffic, even for someone who runs a web dev shop, a HomeAssistant instance to control all of my lights/thermostats, and a Plex media server that’s playing something nearly non-stop…Adobe CC is still the #1 network activity (until I blocked it). I never got a good answer for why this was the case, but I think it’s wildly out of control.