diff --git a/content/posts/2024/p14s/index.md b/content/posts/2024/p14s/index.md index ea60e7e..e75fce2 100644 --- a/content/posts/2024/p14s/index.md +++ b/content/posts/2024/p14s/index.md @@ -248,6 +248,27 @@ replace `ffmpeg-free` with the non-free `ffmpeg` on F40: After doing that and restarting Kdenlive, I was able to render my project using the H.264 and H.265 codecs as I used to be able to do with Ubuntu-based systems. +## Update 2024-11-10 + +In the last couple of months, battery life has improved significantly. As +described above, in summer, battery drained almost completely (from ~90% to +~15%) within 3.5 hours even without heavy workload. + +Today I spent about the same amount of time on a train, working constantly on my +laptop (browsing, downloading articles), and the battery level only dropped from +~90% to ~40% within 3 hours. Some system update, be it a kernel update or some +other software running in the background, must have reduced energy consumption +considerably :-) + +{{< figure src="p14s-battery-drain-2.png">}} + +(I am well aware that there are laptops whose battery run time is in an entirely +different ball park, and even some of my own Thinkpads used to do better, but +I'm overall quite happy with battery life on this machine with bright 3k display +and dedicated GPU. I _could_ have bought a machine which can run on battery like +forever, but that's not my use case and plus, I'd never buy anything else but a +Thinkpad...) + [Darktable]: https://darktable.org [fancontrol]: https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2022/09/26/minimum-viable-fan-control-script/ [Fedora]: https://fedoraproject.org/ diff --git a/content/posts/2024/p14s/p14s-battery-drain-2.png b/content/posts/2024/p14s/p14s-battery-drain-2.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e25ee14 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/posts/2024/p14s/p14s-battery-drain-2.png differ