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Re:Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu by lucb1e on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:01PM (#37905633)
What power saving features would one use while actively in a video call? I doubt this is OP's problem
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Re:Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu by seabrookmx on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:13PM (#37905836)
The ones that interact with the GPU / hardware video decode blocks.

That's assuming their device is even using hardware accelerated video (many distros don't by default) but even with it enabled on my Framework 13 I still see the same behavior as OP. About 90minutes in Google meet, 4hrs in VSCode and more vanilla browsing. 6hrs easily in Windows.

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Re:Ask HN: New ThinkPad battery life on Ubuntu by CharlesW on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:04PM (#37905686)
One example would be hardware video encode/decode.
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