Battery Saving

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Tips for saving battery

1. Reduce brightness!

Screen is the biggest power consumer

2. Close tabs!

Close excessive tabs in your browser, if you don't need them. More opened tabs means more cpu throttling -> more power consumption.

3. Away from browsers

You can watch YouTube videos directly in mpv or smplayer with mpv as engine, thus avoiding using web browser for this. youtube-dl can also download (or forward direct link to other programs) videos from wide range of online video websites. See also https://puri.sm/posts/youtube-streaming-with-less-interruptions-and-more-privacy/.

4. Turn off wifi Turn of wifi if you don't need internet. This can save some power.

5. Enable Hardware Video Acceleration