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> Battery life kinda sucks but I'm not going to fault Framework for that, I am running Linux and have done nothing to improve the situation on my end.

Just in case you haven't yet looked into it:

It really depends on the distro you are using. I assume that some willship with great support (read: automated) out of the box, but others might require a bit of manual setup.

The "powertop"[1] tool from Intel is a CLI app which let you see where energy is going and tune the system to reduce consumption.

From my own experience, the automatic tuning mode does fair job, but the mouse setting was a bit too aggressive for my taste (I think that the tool only saw it as a lambda USB peripheral), so I had to override that setting. I also wrote a simple configuration file for a systemd service to have it executed at boot time, but I lost that lately because of a drive crash, so I cannot help you more than just telling you it's doable, if you're willing to dig through the man pages.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP