TLP, the laptop battery power saving tool, released new 1.8.0 version few days ago! The new release add battery charge threshold support for new laptops, including Chromebooks, DELL, and Framework laptops. With Linux Kernel 6.12 or later, TLP 1.8.0 finally supports for setting start and stop battery charge threshold for DELL laptops. With Linux Kernel […]
Read MoreThis tutorial shows how to disable certain CPU cores in Ubuntu to save power and prevent your machine from overheating. There are a few tools to manage CPU frequency and save power in Linux today. They include power-profile-daemon (Gnome built-in power mode settings), TLP laptop battery life saving tool, auto-cpufreq, and more. Besides limiting CPU […]
Read Morepower-profiles-daemon, the power mode settings backend in Gnome, released 0.20 today! The new release added amdgpu panel power savings which uses dedicated hardware in systems with integrated Radeon graphics to decrease panel power consumption when the system is on battery. This activates the DRM connector attribute panel_power_savings which takes a range from 0 to 4 […]
Read MoreThis simple tutorial shows how to switch CPU power mode between ‘Performance’, ‘Balanced’, and ‘Power Saver’ using Linux command in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. GNOME has options in both ‘Settings’ and top-right system status menu to change CPU frequency by switching between ‘Performance’, ‘Balanced’, and ‘Power Saver’. It’s useful for saving battery […]
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