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linsomniacyesterday at 8:18 PM1 replyview on HN

A couple weeks ago I was working remote and didn't bring a power adapter, and I realized a couple hours in that my battery was getting kind of low. I clicked on the battery icon and got a list of what was using a lot of power: 1 was an hour long video chat using Google Meet, the other was Claude desktop (which I hadn't used at all that morning).

What in the world is an idle Claude Desktop doing that uses so much power?


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quotztoday at 12:52 AM

They run a resource heavy VM for the claude cowork feature.