Found a really cool and very useful command today to monitor your Ubuntu laptop’s power consumption. Simply type the following command into your terminal.
gnome-power-statistics
If your hardware supports it, you should be presented with a screen that looks similar to the following
It’s interesting to play around with this to see how different things affect your laptops power. I turned the brightness down on my laptop from 100% to about 50% and the drop was dramatic. There are also different graphs you can view like charge history of your current session.
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