Increase battery life in linux

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  • powerplan

  • This is a one man project. It's been out for a couple of day. We are only two people testing it. The battery life is now miles better than what I had on other measures (including TLP and power profiles daemon).

  • googler

    Discontinued :mag: Google from the terminal

  • web browsing, bookmarks: w3m, googler, buku

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  • web browsing, bookmarks: w3m, googler, buku

  • mocp

    Music On Console Player

  • music: moc

  • rtorrent

    rTorrent BitTorrent client

  • long downloads: aria2, rtorrent

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    n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

  • file management: nnn

  • aria2

    aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

  • long downloads: aria2, rtorrent

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  • System76 Power Management

    System76 Power Management

  • TLP and Powertop will yield significant gains relative to the atrocious battery life out of the box, but fall about 50% short of basic Windows or macOS performance 5 years ago - However, System76 power management seems to do very well - about the time I gave up on Fedora (33 - mostly because of the putrid battery life) & went back to an older OSX I first heard about it and people were raving about how close it was to the performance of the big commercial OSes. - Plus I have a linux box running System76 Ubuntu (slated for a Rocky upgrade) and can confirm that the battery life is within 50-70% of a commercial OS - far, far better than anything else I have seen in the Linux ecosystem.

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