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Requiring figma at a job should be a human rights violation :). I'm off the grid and whenever I use figma it drains my batteries with a high CPU load. I have to be careful to open it during the dead winter, if I leave it open I could drain my entire 5kw setup. If I throttle my CPU, it's totally unusable. Hopefully I can get a more efficent setup (currently an old 2400GE minipc). Usually I take a screen snapshot because this has happened.

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When I read stuff like this I can never tell if it is someone making a joke or just extreme complaining.

The computer you mentioned comes with a 65 watt AC/DC converter which should last 77 hours minimum on a 5kw battery.

Then there is the nonsense about blaming a web page for not having enough power after choosing to do a tech job while living off a battery.

didn't want to hijack the thread about my personal setup, but that's almost about right amount of power usage I aim at entirely, about 120-200 watts per hour: but there are other things plugged in besides my desktop like ... my entire house. Lights, freezer, monitor, radio, DC adapters, starlink. Another 30-50w is just insane to run Figma. My freezer chest uses less and at least I can grab a steak.

You're doing it wrong. What you need is a good exhaust on that mini pc; then you can use Figma as an inefficient heater during that dead winter.

You should get a mac laptop, you can run figma all day without even needing to plug in the laptop to charge.

I hope this is satire. The glaring problem with software performance nowadays is corporations having convinced consumers to work around their slow and terrible software by throwing more hardware at it and buying multi-thousand dollar computers.

Software companies must be a non-trivial driver of e-waste.

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