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?
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works, @Admetus@sopuli.xyz, & @paper_moon@lemmy.world what power levels would you suggest I set if I’m planning on keeping my laptop plugged in most of the time? In the past I’ve done 20/90, but I think I read somewhere that 40-50% is best for long-term battery health.
How long do you need the battery to last? My personal experience limiting a Dell convertible tablet to an 80% charge and keeping it plugged almost all the time was the tablet failed before the battery did. After 7 years the Dell battery utility still showed very little degradation and the battery hadn’t swelled at all.
I have multiple laptops (a couple used as servers) and mostly keep them at a 75% charge.