> 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.
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:
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....