[ecliptik]

It also uses High-Performance graphics for whatever reason when connected and can completely drain a full MacBook Pro battery in under an hour. Disconnecting does not free the GPU.

On a positive note, I now have a reason to use to MacBook touchbar. Setup an Automator action to kill the PIDs to release the GPU when I no longer need to use VPN.

[justinclift]

Maybe their developers don't yet know that's fixable with a plist entry? eg:

https://github.com/sqlitebrowser/sqlitebrowser/commit/72a452...

You can manually add that to applications that don't have it, to see if it works. :)

[cnst]

> It also uses High-Performance graphics for whatever reason when connected and can completely drain a full MacBook Pro battery in under an hour. Disconnecting does not free the GPU.

Which is ultimately a bug, or a missing feature, in MacOS -- it shouldn't be possible for a random broken app to make your 10h battery only last 1h -- change my mind.

Coincidentally, even though MacBook Pro 16" has a much larger battery than MacBook Air -- ~100Wh vs. ~50Wh -- MBP is also capable of consuming said battery at a much faster rate -- 100W vs. 30W. So, if you need an average web-browsing machine with the best battery runtime in the presence of silly apps that consume all available resources, it's actually a much better choice to get MBA vs. MBP.

Why Apple doesn't introduce a setting to optimise the runtime for battery, or a lap-use mode, is beyond me. I had to install Turbo Boost Switcher to make my 2020 MBP16" usable as a laptop -- it runs out of battery, and is too hot to use on a lap, otherwise. Sadly, there's not even any tool to reliable turn off the graphics card, either -- I had to find a setting to switch it off in Firefox manually.

[oplav]

I've determined based on trial and error that the High-Performance graphics usage only happens after the animation during the Okta Verify window in their embedded browser. Unfortunately, there's no way for me to disable that and still authenticate into the VPN.