The way of the roadwarrior Getting more battery time out of your laptop is a constant uphill battle against Slack, Jira and other browser based trojans. But who would expect that playing a local media file would consume so much CPU?
For example playing this 4K video:
mpv "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1QICrgxTjA" will consume ~110% cpu on a premium I7 Laptop
But if there is a will there is a way If you’re on wayland and on modern Intel GFX hardware this could work for you. Read More...
