Implementing battery charge limits in GNOME
By @jelly
https://vdwaa.nl/gnome-upower-charge-thresholds.html
It will mitigate battery loosing capacity over time.
There will be a talk at FOSDEM about this work
@sonny Thanks so much for implementing this, @jelly! It will save a lot of batteries (and laptops) from an premature death.
Is it possible to expose the stop and start range to customization? Also, it would be really nice to have a 'pill' button to quickly toggle the battery saver on and off from the top menu
@sonny @jelly neat, this is something I’ve been spending a bunch of time thinking about, and I wonder if we can improve the experience here even more:
New hardware (like ARM MacBooks) also allow to inhibit charging at any point via sysfs, so we could do smth like stop charge at 80% but provide a button (maybe quicksetting) to continue up to 100% once.
I'm using https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/5724/battery-health-charging/ for some time now and am quite happy with it. That seems to have some more options, e.g. changing the charge limit ad-hoc or enable force-discharge.