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I really appreciate that they let you set the battery's max charge. I keep mine at 85% most of the time, but will bump it up to 100% if I know I'm going on a trip or whatever.

Right now I have to reboot and go into the BIOS to do that, being able to set it without rebooting will be convenient!

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On the other hand, since they make replacing everything so easy, you can just ignore battery health best practices and replace the battery every 1-2 years

Does it need a battery? i know macs need a battery present to work at all, in theory because tdp is higher than the charger can provide, but is that the case with the framework as well? Could you just remove the battery when working at your desk (like i do for weeks, before having to travel)?

It can work without

Is that not common on other brands? On my ASUS I can right click on the battery icon in KDE, and adjust that in "Advanced Power Settings".

I'm not OP, but I had no idea KDE had that built in. I'll have to check for something analogous in my xfce config when I'm back at my laptop. Thanks!

It takes hardware support.

It used to be exclusive to thinkpads, then started showing up across more business-oriented laptops, I think some Macbooks got support, then it filtered down to various consumer models.

I do it online

  echo 80 | doas tee  /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_control_end_threshold

Edit: apparently I already installed framework-laptop-kmod so this comes from there

https://github.com/DHowett/framework-laptop-kmod

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