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> it's an obscenity that somebody pasting one high frame rate GIF into a slack channel can cause a quad-core, tenth generation core i7 laptop CPU to peg itself at 85% usage and begin wasting battery, heating up, spinning fans, etc.

There’s a setting to disable animated gifs. Which also disables party parrots and other animated crap emojis.

There it is: https://slack.com/help/articles/228023907-Manage-animated-im....




I also got tired of this especially when I wasn't even looking at Slack but it was not hidden, so it kept animating gifs and emoji etc that I can't see. Hammerspoon let me just disable them whenever I was on battery power:

https://gist.github.com/philsnow/4086e07b28d8d3cd17f5bf81ff8...




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