I’ve been using my old Laptop from my university days as a home server for some time now. It runs the latest Ubuntu LTS with Jellyfin and Home Assistant both in docker containers.

When it’s idle it pulls about 10 Watts, which is Not great, but not terrible either.

So I was wondering what I could do to reduce that number. I’m looking for low hanging fruit rather than complex hacks like CPU under clocking or what have you.

Thanks in advance!

  • Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.showEnglish
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    1 month ago

    One of the best ways to reduce power consumption on older laptops is to change the HDD to an SDD.

    But don’t expect to get below 10W on an old laptop.