For five weeks I’ve been chasing more battery life for my laptop. I’ve been churning out several projects every week to replace my old desktop setup. Two suites make up the endeavour: CHasm and Fe₂O₃. They are now grouped into one project: Watt — The Lean Desktop Project. Why? Pick the metric. The reason the fan went quiet, the battery now lasts 19 hours, and the desktop now fits me perfectly… it’s all the same metric: watts. Every loop, poll, fork-on-a-timer is a watt the battery doesn’t giv...

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