Mastodawn

...of people in perpetuity.". The 4% is traditional, and 100 year #analysis #confirms is #sustainable with #hedge and 4 yr shortfall #standby. But with 30 year analysis on S&P #ETFs, 6% is achievable and sustainable with same hedge and standby strategy. It is all just order of operations math.

these machines will destroy US.Apr 26

So I’m testing out #Ubuntu2604LTS on an intel #thinkpad T14 gen 4 and the standby battery life is atrocious. Went to bed around 10pm, closed the lid and when I woke up in the morning it was completely dead. Am I missing something. I thought newer kernels handled sleep and power settings better? This is borderline unusable.

#linux #battery #standby #ubuntu

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T_X Mar 30

Also speaking of power management / #sleep / #suspend on Debian / Linux: Even when the #standby / #s2idle power usage was still reasonable/working I typically ran into issues with running out of power and then fsck's on reboot.
I thought I saw config options regarding the levels in #systemd's sleep.conf, but maybe I misremembered. Took me a while to figure out that I could tune these in #UPower's configs instead.
And it's still confusing to me what the difference between Low/Critical/Action is.

Hackaday [Unofficial]Mar 22

How a Belkin USB Charger Pulls off a 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/how-a-belkin-usb-charger-pulls-off-a-3-milliwatt-standby-usage/

13 Mar 22

How a Belkin USB Charger Pulls off a 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage https://hackaday.com/2026/03/22/how-a-belkin-usb-charger-pulls-off-a-3-milliwatt-standby-usage/
#ReverseEngineering #Teardown #Powerusage #Standby #Usbcharger

How A Belkin USB Charger Pulls Off A 3 Milliwatt Standby Usage

A well-known property of wall warts like power bricks and USB chargers is that they always consume some amount of power even when there’s no connected device drawing power from them. This fee…

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