GPU usage drops from 70% to 3% by hiding side bar, Thanks alot.
It’s like they’re trying to maximize power consumption even by their users.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2026
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It's one tiny animation, Michael, what could it cost, 70%?
There are always tokens in the nano banana stand.
There is something rather ironic with slopbros getting upset about resource usage. Can’t quite put my finger on what though. Guess I need to outsource my thinking to an LLM.
And the "fix" is to add an option to hide the spinner:
Job done! Everybody go home!
Somebody's listening :) The don't burn my house down customization feature has been added in the latest toaster firmware.
Probably AI written code.
I fucking knew it
What a waste of power and water. Hilarious...
Just power, unless you evaporatively cool your home pc.
actually he was referring to the data center consuming power + water
It's funnier cause it's not a LLM running on his PC that's causing it
Same as the discord typing animation
That one is rendered on the CPU.
If you have a client that supports Vencord mods, you can disable it with this.
It's about 70% utilization and up to 1.5 W power on my M4 Pro
Ok so either Apple GPUs are the crazyiest crap on the market, or this dude's power sensor is broken... or both.
