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by hd4 1533 days ago
This reminds me of an idea I wanted to submit to the systemd team (or wherever it would be more appropriate) to have a Linux service report on the current power usage of the OS and maybe even translate it into currency-per-hour to show people how much they were spending over time with the aim of reducing power wastage. Seems like it would be more relevant than ever given the global situation around energy these days.
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So... powertop? Possibly run as a daemon logging to the journal, which I grant is somewhat different from how it works now (ncurses tool or something you run and log to CSV).