Low battery life due to high power consumption on t490 thinkpad. (help needed) - eviltoast

So i have gotten a t490 just recently, and ive installed fedora on it, gnome power profiles daemon said it was “on my lap” and wouldn’t let me change the power profiles even when on a desk. So i masked that, and installed auto-cpufreq, but the laptop still draws about 10W (according to powertop) when watching a youtube video, leading to 4-5 hours of battery life.

any tips on how to reduce the power consumption?

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    10 months ago

    This article helped me go from 4 hour battery life on Windows 11 to 10 on Linux: link

    Using a 5 year old dell xps 15