Wait until you need to run Microsoft Teams. You’ll need to carry an entire supercomputer to run that pile of shit and even then it won’t be smooth.

Even Jira is not too far off these days unfortunately despite being a relatively simple tool (but they needed to justify hiring tons of JavaScript developers).

At least we can be safe in the knowledge that Teams will be the only bloated Electron app Microsoft make a core part of the Office suite.

There is no way most company issue laptops can run two programs that resource heavy at once, without Windows 10 randomly closing other applications or flashing a black screen at you.

Nothing can possibly be slower than a heavily customized Jira instance.

I opened up the api recently to discover that every story I edited had close to 100 custom fields on them, most duplicative (presumably) and hidden.

What angers me about Jira isn’t the slowness of the backend - that I can wait. It’s the slowness of the frontend that’s the problem, which is a combination of a JS-heavy front end as well as its hard dependency on the backend, where as basic HTML forms & page navigations typically leave the previous page interactive until the response from the backend arrives so you can still look at the existing page as well as allowing you to cancel a page load and still keep the currently loaded page.

Probably all the backend telemetry teams uses.

if you want teams to go through a proxy, they basically say "open all ports tcp and udp to microsoft.com + even more" I think it might be like 52.0.0.0/8 or something

I don't know, Zoom seems to like to hang out using an entire CPU when you're not even in a meeting.

Well, to run Slack...

Zoom is the new culprit. Occasionally it’ll demand so much from my computer that the 100W charger won’t be able to keep up, causing my battery to begin to discharge.

Are you running the from the browser and not the app?

My biggest Zoom gripe is being unable to control how much bandwidth it uses. 360p is fine for the others and I on the call when we’re not sharing screens.

If it weren’t for that, I could télé-work from the cabin a lot more... stupid Canadian mobile providers...

I’m running from the app in OSX. The browser version is somehow even worse.