Re: UNIX systems

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

Right now I get 1 hour, so 3 is a major upgrade.  My notebook is quite
new.  It's a Lenovo 15IMH05 with 24 GiB of RAM.

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Hmm, sounds like something is wrong somewhere. I'd install powertop
and/or tlp and also make sure to disable Intel VMD in case it is
enabled in your bios.

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I run OpenBSD and I believe we don't have programs such as powertop or
tlp around here.  I'm going to look into the BIOS.  There are some Intel
features there that I could disable.  Some virtualization technology.  I
have enabled them and I saw that the OpenBSD kernel notices them.  But I
doubt I use any of that.

Best of luck! OpenBSD is strange. On some things it is far ahead, while on
others, it is hopelessly antiquated if things are as you say. =(

With those three, you should be able to double your battery time at least.
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For me, the biggest difference was disabling intel VMD in the bios,
that made a huge difference.

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You give me hopes. :)

Let me know if it makes a difference for you! =)

I run cwm, which is known as not having a virtual desktop thingies, but
it's actually does.  When I press super-1 I go to desktop 1.  I created
4 virtual desktops (which is enough), but I think I could have at least
9 of them.

...

Yeah, these things are important---printer, scanner and wifi.  Although

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I wonder if it is easy to get p/s/w on cwm without having to pull in
all of xfce under the hood? That would be awesome!

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What's p/s/w?

Print/scan/wireless.

True. But it would not be convenient for me. The wife would be angry with
network cables everywhere. ;)

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That was not the image I had in mind.  I had in mind plugging an
appliance into the outlet on a wall.  I could perhaps take my computer
from my desk and lay on the couch with it while I plug it to the outlet
near the couch.  Then it downloads and uploads stuff (like,
automatically) and then I watch a little TV, say.  It would take a
little while because with my new offline-designed system, the downloads
wouldn't take just a few seconds for USENET and community messages and
e-mails; it would also download a few websites (up to a certain depth)
and videos [interviews, conversations, lectures] and also songs (so that
now I'd have them offline).  So after, say, half an hour, I'd unplug it
and get back to my desk to continue work.  So maybe I'd only connect
again the next day or whenever.
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I really enjoyed this picture.

Ahh got it! Yes, that makes much more sense. I wrote a script that plugs into my
email program that enables me to download any link in an email and get the
download as an email itself. It's great! I get an email with a link to an
article, then I do not need to leave my email program. I just highlight the
link, press a button, and a minute later the article comes in text only mode, as
an email. Pure bliss! =D

The author used words like connecting your computer to an outlet like a
vehicle that stops by a gas station to pump fuel.

Good analogy!

Haha... true. Well, if you are already into tui email, I think the
gains will be less. I suspect that alpine is not the most efficient
one. But I think it is perhaps a bit easier to get started with.

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It's probably easier than Gnus, but in my case I think investing even
more into Gnus is the way to go.  I wish it were easier to use.  The
best thing about Gnus is not actually Gnus itself, but the fact that
it's well integrated with the most pleasurable text editor ever.

This should not be underestimated! It is a powerful feature indeed!