Ok, well, to start with, my Lenovo X1 Carbon 10th is known for not having the greatest battery life.
Despite this, to preserve battery health, I have notifications set to warn me when a charge goes under 20% or over 90%, so that I either plug in or unplug when I get them, which TTBOMK constitutes “best practices.” Very possibly I’m just getting old and getting lost too deeply in whatever I’m doing, but I feel like I’m constantly getting these notifications, and they’re really starting to get on my nerves!
I’ve tried tlp and auto-cpufreq without any noticeable difference in performance, and usually I’m on “Power Saver” in Mint.
Mrs. Erinaceus has a gaming laptop and just keeps it plugged in all the time, battery health be damned. Is that what I should do? Maybe time to get a new battery? Or is there just some way to tell it to stop charging and leave it plugged in?
It won’t help if you’re not on gnome but I have ‘preserve battery’ enabled’ for something like 70-ish percent. I also have an extension that makes the battery indicator disappear when it’s plugged in. It actually helps to make me think less about it.
Anyway, hey there fellow Buddhism mod!
As the Tathagata Himself might say, “All conditioned phenomena (including laptop batteries) are subject to dissolution.” 🙏☸️
😂 Excellent analogy, totally in line with the teachings 🙏