I think it’s already enabled, AFAICT.

Especially if I insist on watching them in high definition? Yeah, probably doesn’t help!

No, nothing like that, fortunately; as long as I have power-profiles-daemon installed, it runs fine.

Not sure what the hdparm commands are supposed to do . . . ?

Yeah, my brightness level is usually set kind of low; like right now it’s 20%(!), which is actually how I like it. The keyboard backlight is at 100%, and I kind of need it to be that way because of the state of my vision. The screen dims to 5% after 5 minutes. My stopwatch applet tells me now that I didn’t even make it to 3 hours! 🙁

A bad habit, but I often end up watching videos in my browser, LibreWolf, while I’m working, and I’m sure that probably adds to the power drain rather significantly.

From the Man Himself (Clem):

JL

Hello, and thank you for the new release. I have a question about the power-profiles – how and when are they applied? Here is why I ask. I have custom settings – set by tlp and by scripts – and I don’t want Cinnamon to override those settings. Thanks.

Clem

Hi JL,

They’re applied by power-profiles-daemon. Note that Cinnamon supports it as a feature but doesn’t depend on it. If you’re using TLP you can remove power-profiles-daemon for it not to interfere. The profiles will just then disappear in the Cinnamon Power Settings and power applet.

https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4785

Now my only question is, which is better, tlp or power-profiles-daemon? Guess I’ll have to run some tests.

Oh yeah, and what about auto-cpufreq?

Ok, I think what we’re supposed to do now is this: Go to the Update Manager>Edit>Software Sources>Maintenance and either “Remove foreign packages” or “downgrade foreign packages.” I think this’s been there for a while now, just never used it before.

It would be nice if Leta had tabs for images, videos, etc.

This?

StartPage should be !sp.

This is unfortunately the same type of experience I’ve had with SearXNG. 🙁

I haven’t really experienced a worsening of DDG, and this is a bit off topic, perhaps, but—

I have yet to find a better alternative to Google’s video search. Google Books also remains valuable in many ways, since it will give you different “search inside the book”-type search results than the Internet Archive will (and they also have some books that IA does not).

What’s annoying to me is that StartPage, which is supposed to have Google search results, and by and large does, does not give the same video results as Google (go ahead, try it). It would also be nice to have an Invidious or FreeTube type front end for Google Books, and I believe there used to be something like that, but not any longer.

Some Google products still have definite value, it’s just important that they derive no benefit from us using them.

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Unfortunately PCs don’t have very big back seats…🙄

This would effect Mullvad, right?

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Could you explain/elaborate to a know-nothing (me) on the following from your link?:

Caveats of federation: Metadata leaking

When using federation, Matrix’s room states (containing a lot of Metadata) get replicated and stored indefinitely on every homeserver any user connects with or connects to. While this is a feature for enabling distributed chat rooms, it comes at a serious privacy cost.

To avoid this, you can either disable federation, or make sure that your users signed up with no linkable identifiers other than their user names.

Last time I tried SimpleX, you had to scan a QR code to go from Desktop to mobile and vice versa, any chance of them changing that? Otherwise it did look promising.

Like this, he means?