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Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux

July 1, 2026 Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux2026-07-01T22:14:36+01:00 No Comment Linux, longread, Mint, MX, SPECIAL, tips, tlp, xebian, XFCE

There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I'm told, is worse,…

Lynne Goldberg on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “I thought they were very talented and enjoyed the music. My grandchildren all play instruments and do vocals. I love…” Jun 30, 22:46
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Usually all distros come with a clipboard, whatever it may be. Basalt doesn’t have one, at least in live mode.…” Jun 29, 20:04
Béranger on ComicStripBrowser now runs on Windows and supports Comics Kingdom too!: “Version 2.5.2 was released: • Fixed a caching bug where falling back to yesterday’s comic (due to US/local time zone…” Jun 29, 18:20
Béranger on Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian: “Things happened when using both FSearch and Vinyl. I’m not sure whether this was a bug in FSearch or in…” Jun 29, 18:15
Béranger on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “You mean xfce4-clipman-plugin? Xebian has it. But Basalt might install more packages than present in the live ISO. I can’t…” Jun 29, 18:03
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “One thing though, Basalt doesn’t seem to have a clipboard installed. It’s surprising and rare, usually there is always one.” Jun 29, 17:59
Béranger on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Adding Flatpak support is literally a 2-liner: sudo apt install flatpak flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo If you’re using GNOME…” Jun 29, 17:56
HAL on This is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1—it’s a critique: “Basalt comes with Bluetooth, LibreOffice, VLC, Audacious, KeePassXC, Timeshift, Flatpak support, and GNOME Software preinstalled, and some people would appreciate…” Jun 29, 17:48
Béranger on A few notes about Antigravity CLI and non-alternatives: “After having used Antigravity CLI, now I found Antigravity IDE to be everything I need! Google Antigravity Downloads include (for…” Jun 29, 17:42
HAL on De nouveaux bogues pour le français: “Tout est foutu dans ce monde C’est tout-à-fait ça, mais l’IA va nous sauver 🤨” Jun 29, 17:18
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Apparently that was the last video from the Graystones from the April collaboration. They set up a go-fund-me page last…” Jun 28, 15:06
Béranger on Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!: “Updated with opinions and a long discussion on several German topics.” Jun 27, 23:10
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Some crazy Canadians in China! JetLag Warriors (Steve, Ivana, and baby Jean, “a full-time travelling family from Canada”): ‒ May…” Jun 27, 13:20
Béranger on Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!: “Puisque ce film traitait de la Norvège… Apparemment, la Norvège est un pays barbare. 7 ans en Norvège, 3 enfants,…” Jun 27, 10:56
sofleet on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “New song released by the Graystones about 2 hours ago and it already has more than 500 comments: Without You…” Jun 26, 19:09
Béranger on I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!: “This is my favorite kind of AI news: ① OpenAI Codex bombards SSDs with needless write operations, costing millions: Modern…” Jun 24, 19:14
edel on I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!: “Marvelous compilation! Kept me busy for 3h. Most interesting; CodePuppy and Fedora’s numbers, both the good ones and the bad…” Jun 23, 08:49
Béranger on I’m so tired of all these “tech” news reports!: “Morning has broken, and I could enjoy a couple of articles linked to by DistroWatch Weekly, a place where I’m…” Jun 22, 10:55
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): “Both Mia chen and GuYi Alone released new videos: – Mia chen: Realistic daily life in an ordinary Chinese village…” Jun 21, 22:53
HAL on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “Same here. Very informative. Thanks.” Jun 21, 18:45
Béranger on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Regionalism din Moldova. Nu cred Gen Z a auzit de el.” Jun 21, 11:28
Al Sal on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Nu știu dacă e chiar arhaic termenul. Mie mi-a venit în cap ca fiind o parte din mahala, la începutul…” Jun 21, 11:27
Béranger on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Nu. 99% din cititori nu au auzit în viața lor acest regionalism arhaic.” Jun 21, 11:04
Al Sal on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Sau poate „hudiță”.” Jun 21, 11:03
Béranger on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Merge foarte bine, dar numai când textul se referă la astfel de mahalale la nivel general. Când e vorba de…” Jun 21, 10:40
Al Sal on Limba română de la Humanitas la Veștea (și nu numai): “Poate ”mahalale” pentru ”callejones”?” Jun 21, 10:10
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Mi-am pierdut simțul „limbei străbune”! Zilele trecute mă uitam la un individ cum a intrat ca la el acasă în…” Jun 20, 01:05
Al Sal on One can’t ask Chinese chatbots literally anything about China!: “For what it’s worth this is the answer I got from Qwen3.7 Plus inside the Kagi Assistant wrapper: The user…” Jun 19, 14:45
Béranger on Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!: “O discuție în limba română cu Gemini despre un video pe care nu l-am vizionat, dar care analizează filmul lui…” Jun 17, 18:00
Béranger on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “I had to ask Gemini to understand what you meant regarding Fitts’ Law.” Jun 16, 08:41
zugu on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “I agree, but for me the major culprit is that GNOME absolutely ignores Fitts’ Law when it comes to screen…” Jun 16, 08:14
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): ““GuYi Alone”: China’s Fragile Pension Reality | Who Gets Sacrificed? The Real Reason Behind China’s High Savings. (16:28)” Jun 15, 20:35
edel on I tried and tried and couldn’t write on politics: “No just the UK, Germany is doing the same for showing a watermelon graphic. And the EU, sanctions 50 something…” Jun 15, 20:04
Friedhelm Mehnert on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Béranger, I’m very very sorry! I have been informed that the comments have been invisble because of a technical problem…” Jun 15, 14:52
Béranger on I tried and tried and couldn’t write on politics: “Here’s an exception to my self-imposed rule. Tell me how much Britain starts looking like Russia by only citing news…” Jun 15, 12:37
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “Gut zu wissen. Fun fact for other Germans who write in English: the comma between subordinate clauses is mandatory in…” Jun 15, 12:24
Friedhelm Mehnert on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “I must warn you about the YT reaction channel Glenn and Adrian’s Rock Talk. Those jerks are not objective. They…” Jun 15, 10:53
disgorge on Lumo by Proton: a fraud of an AI: “I think the webclient source code is here https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClients and Android and iOS is here: https://github.com/ProtonLumo” Jun 14, 19:00
Béranger on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “I fully agree, but I would still insist on the stupidity of Files/Nautilus that has only 2 views and cannot…” Jun 14, 10:46
zugu on GNOME’s Tracker makes Linux as shitty as Windows: “GNOME is a cancer. Apart from GNOME 2, that is. Apart from under the hood stuff like this, they are…” Jun 14, 10:41
Béranger on Ideile fasciste poloneze cu privire la garanția „za butelki”: “Iată ce scrie pe FB un cetățean din Dortmund: În Germania, oamenii care lasă dozele și sticlele cu garanție în…” Jun 13, 12:37
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Turnarounds posted one more iPhone-recorded video: Lady Hear Me Tonight | The Turnarounds LIVE @ Little Lou’s (Phone Recording)…” Jun 12, 18:31
Béranger on Today, I visited China (online): ““GuYi Alone” again: Being a Chinese YouTuber | My YouTube earnings, tiny life upgrades & thoughts on changing my look……” Jun 11, 22:32
Béranger on Bypassing GoComics’ paywall: “😻 Michael Yingling’s Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine is working again!” Jun 11, 15:59
Béranger on Why didn’t anyone tell me that Ubuntu MATE is already dead?: “They claim Ubuntu MATE isn’t really dead. Thomas Ward, on Ubuntu Discourse: Rest easy, MATE is not going away, and…” Jun 10, 14:39
Béranger on SPECIAL: Trust your gut, but revise your subjunctive—and beware of dictionaries!: “One more verb that should have been included in the Back to using “to suggest” section: to require. As Vincent…” Jun 10, 13:38
Béranger on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “10, obviously.” Jun 7, 07:53
Laurențiu on Masochistic me: Win11 IoT on a 2016 laptop slower than N100: “Hi. I have a Lenovo laptop with 8g ram and Celeron cpu and I want to buy a win iot…” Jun 7, 05:33
Béranger on Not the smartest piece Euronews could have published: “Oh, there’s too much AI regulation, eh? Anthropic calls for ‘brake pedal’ before AI develops itself without human oversight: Anthropic…” Jun 5, 22:20
Béranger on A rare gem in a world of decay: The Graystones: “The Graystones video posted today: Step into a rehearsal session with The Graystones & ‪@EvanRileysings‬ – Sir Duke by ‪@steviewonder‬.…” Jun 5, 19:16
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Personally, I have the Starter Plan for a short while (before it was simply Free). I’ve always left it on…” Jun 5, 17:13
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I believe you are right. I use it more as an assistant I guess. Those tweaking options are a…” Jun 5, 11:24
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Kagi is not a translation tool. A translation tool always preserves the original style and register. The only adjustment should…” Jun 5, 10:16
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “These are the options I have in the browser: postimg.cc/XpkNHyN5” Jun 5, 08:47
Al Sal on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Yes, I was also referring to the fully featured Kagi translation, which I guess is included in the professional tier…” Jun 5, 08:29
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “In the Android app there’s no way to select any of these levels. It’s just: – Type: Natural, Literal. -…” Jun 4, 22:22
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Hum, really ? 🤔 It’s curious because in the browser (translate.kagi.com) I have: Basic Fast and everyday translations: ideal for…” Jun 4, 21:57
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: ““Best” is a paid feature.” Jun 4, 21:07
HAL on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “I haven’t really had any problems with the translation tool; it generally works well. If needed, if you want or…” Jun 4, 21:04
Béranger on Who isn’t on the Big Bad Web?: “Nope. Their translation is sometimes brilliant, but some other times completely fucked-up. Some LLMs are better at that. I still…” Jun 4, 12:09