Thinkpad T480 gets pretty hot and battery barely lasts

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In my case the only things that significantly degrade more the lifetime is watching videos (the fan blasts)

For watching videos in VMs, unfortunately software decoding uses a lot of cpu, but I’ve found these help a lot:

  • disable hardware acceleration in the browser
  • mpv --profile=sw-fast --vo=x11
  • use streamlink to view streams in mpv instead of the browser
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