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My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm not sure that all laptops support capping, and I'm not sure if Panasonic ToughBook supports the drivers necessary to cap. I guess you could deploy TLP and check sudo tlp-stat -b

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I have a PC that I use as a router. It's power setup is inverter > lifepo4 battery > battery charger. Relevance here is that it's a "dumb" setup insofar as the PC can't manage the battery.

    What I did to help with battery health is figured out how long the battery should run the PC and have a scheduled disconnect of the mains power for about half that time once a day. Not as good a solution as something that can maintain a ~80% charge, but better than leaving it at 100%

    It'd work for an old laptop too, and can be accomplished with a cheap aquarium light timer.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    it's not a toughbook and idk how to configure it but my letsnote cf-rz6 came with the battery charge capped at 80%, maybe it can be configured with their windows tool (or the acpi call made by that tool). i already have linux on it so can't check tho..

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