My friend group started using Discord during the pandemic to continue our previously-in-person RPG sessions.
I don't know how people find it tolerable. It'd kill the battery of a Macbook that could handle 6-8 hours of actual work (this is pre-M1) or 10ish hours of playing Netflix or whatever, in 2 hours flat, fans whirring madly the whole time. WTF. And it wasn't just one of us, and it wasn't just Macs, anyone on a battery-powered device saw their battery life cut to a sliver of what it should be. To make matters worse, nearly every session saw at least one person's Discord simply crash and have to restart. What is this, the 1990s?
I was video-chatting in goddamn 2002 on a potato. Yeah the resolution was ass, but it's not like this is some totally new, hyper-advanced tech. It should have gotten far more power efficient! Look how great codecs are now! Video chat shouldn't burn my battery like I'm having it calculate digits of Pi in a hot loop on 20 threads plus a hundred graphics-chip threads.
I don't know how people find it tolerable. It'd kill the battery of a Macbook that could handle 6-8 hours of actual work (this is pre-M1) or 10ish hours of playing Netflix or whatever, in 2 hours flat, fans whirring madly the whole time. WTF. And it wasn't just one of us, and it wasn't just Macs, anyone on a battery-powered device saw their battery life cut to a sliver of what it should be. To make matters worse, nearly every session saw at least one person's Discord simply crash and have to restart. What is this, the 1990s?
I was video-chatting in goddamn 2002 on a potato. Yeah the resolution was ass, but it's not like this is some totally new, hyper-advanced tech. It should have gotten far more power efficient! Look how great codecs are now! Video chat shouldn't burn my battery like I'm having it calculate digits of Pi in a hot loop on 20 threads plus a hundred graphics-chip threads.