After going back and forth on using my frame.work as a daily driver, I've recently managed to get 8:50 hours of battery life with 80% charge.
Since this felt like quite the accomplishment, I wanted to share how I managed to pull this off: after reading on the unfortunate power draw of USB-A extension slots, I replaced mine with a USB-c one and runtime went from 5-6 hours up to the 8:50 I mentioned. The only caveat: I run at 3-5% display brightness and turn off wifi (unloading the driver and disabling powering devices without drivers). (EDIT: ) Ah one more thing: I use
For anyone on the go and working offline, this is probably still some useful info, I hope...
Since this felt like quite the accomplishment, I wanted to share how I managed to pull this off: after reading on the unfortunate power draw of USB-A extension slots, I replaced mine with a USB-c one and runtime went from 5-6 hours up to the 8:50 I mentioned. The only caveat: I run at 3-5% display brightness and turn off wifi (unloading the driver and disabling powering devices without drivers). (EDIT: ) Ah one more thing: I use
cpuset to pin all applications to the efficiency cores.For anyone on the go and working offline, this is probably still some useful info, I hope...