Hi, I'm a Reddit refugee, mostly lurker there but one comment I made was useful to a few people so I don't want it lost if/when I delete all my reddit data. I'm really hoping Lemmy gets a lot more active users and more content so I'm trying to do my (small) part:
I found that I need to wait 5-10 minutes after booting for the battery usage to drop to 4W. That might just be because of all the stuff I have running such as zfs - that's another reason I originally thought 6-7W was the best I could do.
The key parts from my notes for the gpu:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_osi="!Linux-Lenovo-NV-HDMI-Audio""
- update-grub2 and obviously reboot
The kernel option I found whilst researching what was stopping the gpu from going into power saving mode. I don't have the link where I got it from right now. I had tried blacklisting the kernel modules for it but this made the power usage worse. It needs to be running, with intel gpu selected and the kernel option above.
BTW 3-4W is with screen brightness down (one up from darkest).
Wow, that's the same reason I also chose the Nvidia gpu: for the vapour-chamber cooling (GeForce RTX 3060, lowest model that brought the vapour chamber). But I've noted a somewhat better performance with the Nvidia when watching videos. So now I have it on-demand. โ But of course different people have different needs and preferences, so I totally get your settings.