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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by bmurphy1976 on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:05PM (#37993308)
Docker is definitely a problem, although newer versions have implemented new functionality that may have significantly reduced this. I can't really tell however, as I'm stuck on too many Zoom calls all day long and Zoom absolutely murders my battery life.
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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by jwells89 on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:34PM (#37993545)
I haven’t tested it personally but you may be able to get some of that battery life back by using the web version of Zoom in Safari. That tends to force video chat services to use hardware accelerated video codecs which are considerably easier on battery.
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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by c0balt on Monday October 23, 2023 @08:45PM (#37993627)
And that's not just for Mac's, the same can help on Linux devices. It's somewhat hilarious that running a non-native app gets you better hardware accel but here we are.
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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by doubled112 on Monday October 23, 2023 @09:02PM (#37993745)
Maybe the web browser is the OS now. Does that make the OS just a hardware abstraction layer?
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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by dijit on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:05AM (#37996504)
I think that's generally accepted as true for some classification of people.

That's why chromebooks are an idea that was perhaps too early (and hardware too anaemic)

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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by vladvasiliu on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @01:29AM (#37995099)
I don't know about zoom specifically, but aren't most web conferencing "native" apps just electron anyway?
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Re:How does macOS manage virtual cores on Apple Silicon? by c0balt on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @05:14AM (#37996550)
Indeed they tend to be however the underlying electron base tends, imo experience, to be outdated and comparatively hard to configure
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