I'm not choking on budget hardware, but Slack is the second biggest energy drain on my machine -- behind Safari. I have dozens of tabs open in Safari right now, and it's only a bit ahead of just Slack in energy impact. My computer remains responsive, and useful, and gets a solid amount of time on battery precisely because I simply refuse to use Electron-based apps (unless I'm literally being paid to, as in the case of Slack).
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I'm not choking on budget hardware, but Slack is the second biggest energy drain on my machine -- behind Safari. I have dozens of tabs open in Safari right now, and it's only a bit ahead of just Slack in energy impact. My computer remains responsive, and useful, and gets a solid amount of time on battery precisely because I simply refuse to use Electron-based apps (unless I'm literally being paid to, as in the case of Slack).