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by jcalvinowens 206 days ago
Install powertop, the "tunables" tab has a list of system power saving settings you can toggle through the UI. I've seen them make a pretty big difference, but YMMV of course.
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It mostly just breaks things unfortunately. You can faff around for ages trying to figure out which devices work and which don’t but you end up with not much to show for it.
Yeah I tried that but it made no difference at all.