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   iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 21:03:47 JST iced depresso
   i am very bad at math it turns out.
   
   "oh this is 288Wh that will only run a 100W computer for two hours right?"
   
   > laptop battery is 56Wh
   > it gets about 2-4 hours on light loads
   
   :blobmojidrool: i gotta school myself gooder
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 21:04:57 JST iced depresso

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     admittedly i REALLY DO wish that chungus machines had a better story for scaling down performance. sometimes i don't really need much, and its bullshit that you have to like switch to a macbook or something to get power draw down when you aren't actually engaging all cores to solve physics :blobcatdizzy:
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 21:34:42 JST iced depresso

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     @newt i mean. its a 17" built for performance. it will never get a great wattage rating.
     
     i would also have never bought a chungus like this again but it was on sale and at that time it was basically cheaper to buy an entire laptop from costco than a mid range GPU
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     @icedquinn
     > laptop battery is 56Wh
     > it gets about 2-4 hours on light loads
     
     check out powertop readings. Your hardware if probably chugging on more juice than you think. I managed to bring my laptop down to 4-5W by turning off unnecessary stuff.
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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 21:37:35 JST iced depresso

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     @newt i don't have a wattage thingy to check. i've meant to get one for years i just never did :blobcatgoogly:
     
     i doubt frameworks are much better for power though.
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     @icedquinn
     >its a 17" built for performance.
     
     it's probably probably the screen backlight. Larger screens are notoriously powerhungry due to this.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 23-May-2024 21:45:19 JST 翠星石

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     @icedquinn Wh is kind of a rigged measurement and is not very useful for guessing how long a battery will last.
     
     GNU Units of course can handle all this hard math stuff in watts and hours for you without you needing to know any math (you just need to figure out how to enter the values right).