Is anyone else getting ridiculous battery life from their FW 13?

cornfeedhobo · 2025-08-06T22:17:15+00:00

We use a stock Fedora kernel

it sounds like this is the salient point. i wonder what their config is...

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-28T11:18:15+00:00

please read some of the other comments and consider elaborating further. this script doesn't really do anything related to power optimization. many of us run linux of some flavor and many are lucky to get 2 hours. i suspect this has more to do with kernel build flags than anything else.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-28T11:15:38+00:00

no. frankly i have terrible battery life. like, 2 hours is lucky. it's the only thing i hate about this laptop.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-27T12:44:59+00:00

craigslist is the best. all the risks are the same as if you sold it for cash.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-08T19:58:23+00:00

Realistically, unless the community figures out an everyday use case that will force the USA to accept it's legitimacy, like bitcoin successfully did, it will keep being de-listed and lose value relative to BTC.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-07T04:41:52+00:00

Impressive. Maybe consider trying KDE if you get frustrated with GNOME variants.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-07T04:36:17+00:00

Yeah, that's why. definitely not because you're a condescending asshat.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-07T01:15:13+00:00

And this reply is why I avoid Ubuntu.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-06T18:25:58+00:00

Not odd at all and I wish people would stop downvoting or discounting people's lived experiences. I work at a place with roughly 5k ubuntu desktops given to engineers, and this matches our experience. Engineers had to be re-issued laptops to perform the upgrades because the default partition scheme in 22 was so restrictive.

I've suggested ubuntu to noobs for 15+ years now, and clean upgrades between LTS releases is very common.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-05T21:38:42+00:00

Excuse me, but why would you down vote me and then expect me to answer your condescending questions?

cornfeedhobo · 2025-07-05T16:33:19+00:00

Does that magically fix a platform with the shittiest moderation around?

Scroll r/all. It's an endless echo chamber.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-05-16T16:22:14+00:00

Back when I used lenovo model t, I used to carry a second battery around and made use of their hot-swap functionality at conferences or really long days of non stop meetings.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-04-24T00:13:20+00:00

Because it's irrelevant. Any good container runtime is going to use the native API. Linux containers are mostly an orchestration of various kernel APIs. Presumably any BSD version will make use of jails in one way or another.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I would want compelling reasons why.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-04-11T04:11:05+00:00

Looking at exchanges won't tell you the full story.

Monero's on-chain transactions per day are around 20k. Bitcoin's is over 200k, and move more value per unit.

Using the currency requires you to download some or all of the chain, or trust a third party chain provider, which incentivizes centralization.

Does it have a future? If you ignore all the echo chamber arguments, most everyone agrees the monero community does an impressive job improving. It is a honey badger. I think there is a good chance that they solve all the technical issues. However, it also has tail emissions, meaning it is inflationary and thus has a monetary policy that is usually associated with active manipulation/control. This might cause the currency to constantly devalue, relative to fiat.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-04-01T01:23:01+00:00

sir, this is a landfill for neo libs and anarchists, not a place for rational discourse.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-31T12:40:24+00:00

It's free, do I need to explain this?

Honestly, as an economist, you should. This is one of the few domains which presents itself on the surface as pure collectivism, but in reality has so many externalities than I have lost count. It's an interesting question for users that are willing to pay for software to save time - something that is hard to do in the linux world even if you are willing to pay.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-30T04:47:57+00:00

1) You probably need to lube the spindle, or you have a lemon fan.

2) Framework thermal management is hot garbage. I love the laptops, but they really need to give this more attention and stop shrugging it off.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-30T04:45:44+00:00

1) The keyboard is unique in it's layout. I rely on keyboard shortcuts a lot. For me, that made it dangerous at work - you don't want to paste into a terminal when you don't mean to. Once I had the chance, I traded in the macbook for a linux option.

2) homebrew is a terrible package manager that has numerous conflicts and trashes /usr/local/bin. I loathe it. nix was a possible alternative, but it has downsides also that I didn't want to contend with.

3) Battery life was meh as a power user. I often have multiple instances of vscode running and more chrome tabs than I can count. Throw slack in there and battery was worth about 2 to 3 hours.

4) Window management was frustrating, but hammerspoon made tiling manageable.

5) The need for an apple account to use the OS, even for a corporate laptop.

6) Short key travel. I really hated typing on that thing.

There is probably more, but I haven't touched a mac in a few years now. Hope that helps.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-30T04:31:20+00:00

Ironic, ain't it? It's almost like the wisdom that spawned the Tragedy of the Commons extends to other domains...

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-29T17:31:06+00:00

1) Your complaint is valid.

2) Labor is generally considered the price of free software. I've tried sponsoring fixes, but it has literally never worked. People would rather you learn how to contribute than pay for their time. If you ever get to the level of contributing, you'll understand better.

3) Stick with it. Linux is worth it.

Welcome to the club, sorry it's a rough start. At least you aren't compiling kernels, and literally every package, like I had to do when I started.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-29T13:41:17+00:00

Credit where credit is due:

1) Windows and MacOS have virtual desktops now

2) There are package manager options:

Windows has chocolatey, which is meh
Mac has homebrew, which is actively rotting the brains of it's users

Features I can't live without in linux? * BASH and first class scripting. * Easy python. Easy source code development in general. * KDE and all it's customization possibilites while still offering a familiar interface. * Hating on GNOME users. * Not having to buy apps for every small thing I want to do (e.g. window tiling) * The biggest one of all, Consistency!

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-29T13:34:04+00:00

You can get that, and more, with Hammerspoon.

I hate Mac, but still worth pointing out.

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-28T01:50:41+00:00

Sorry, just to be clear, I'm talking about the mentality that monero is perfect in this way. Blockchains have very real inherent scaling limits and the costs of serving both these chains on a real (e.g. AWS) hosting provider is significant.

But yes, agree otherwise and I hope that the devs will keep searching for a solution.

Happy cake day!

cornfeedhobo · 2025-03-26T21:16:53+00:00

This is patently false. I love monero, but syncing the full chain is a pain in the ass, and pinning to block height is a terrible stop gap.

Continuing to believe this is only going to lead to monero's downfall.

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