There’s powertop, but last time I’ve seriously tried using it was years ago. My laptop is >10 years old anyway (I’ve owned it for about half of that) and I almost always use it at home on AC power, the battery is probably geriatric anyway …
Sleep doesn’t cut the power though, which is especially problematic on a laptop, and AFAIK if you use full disk encryption your drive remains readable (also especially problematic on a laptop).
If you’re on a laptop, you often can’t do that and those updates waste precious battery life.
Has anyone found a way to finagle better battery life on Linux laptops? One of my few Linux complaints is that…
There’s powertop, but last time I’ve seriously tried using it was years ago. My laptop is >10 years old anyway (I’ve owned it for about half of that) and I almost always use it at home on AC power, the battery is probably geriatric anyway …
There’s sleep.
Last time I did update on my laptop, I had 40 days of uptime.
Sleep doesn’t cut the power though, which is especially problematic on a laptop, and AFAIK if you use full disk encryption your drive remains readable (also especially problematic on a laptop).
Hibernate works, though it’s kinda slow, too.
Fair point