battery

I've tried the CLI app. A few warnings to those who'll want to do the same: - The app didn't have any updates since July 2024, then got a handful of commits last June and no recent commits ever since. - I've tried to calibrate with it and managed to discharge but failed to charge back up. It's not a big deal since I could force it back with a `battery charging on`. - There's also [some issues](https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/issues/322) reported which [I've also experienced](https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/issues/301) on my end. So it works, but it has some complications to keep in mind. Apparently [someone forked it](https://github.com/js4jiang5/BatteryOptimizer_for_MAC) and aimed to fix some of the issues, but the fork is err, opinionated and may or may not be ideal.

This is: a) really neat. b) an utterly terrifying wrapper around a wrapper around this: https://github.com/hholtmann/smcFanControl See here: https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/tree/main/dist The layer above that is a shell script that downloads and runs shell scripts from github and calls visudo. The layer above that is an electron app that execs the shell script. I used to be a happy user of bclm, but that doesn’t work any more, sadly. I’ll keep looking for a good option.

Apple took this out of Mac OS somewhat recently. You can try to rely on their power management, but given battery decay is a common reason to buy a new machine I don’t trust them really. If you have an Apple Silicon Mac I can recommend Battery [1]. It can keep your Mac at 80%, and even force discharge while plugged in to get there. It’s a CLI and status bar utility, I love it. [1: https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery]

After trying Battery (https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery, it is Electron UI, big in size), I created batteryKid (https://github.com/alaneuler/batteryKid) with native Swift as a coding exercise out of curiosity. batteryKid is tiny in size and easy to use. Check it out on Github https://github.com/alaneuler/batteryKid! It is free and open source. Maybe consider starring it if you find it useful BTW: if you wonder why the hazards, read this article: https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-...

I think this [0] native approach is preferable [0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163

FYI, on Apple Silicon Apple included a firmware-level "hard-switch" to limit the charge to 75/80% only. It was discovered by marcan while working on Asahi and in my experience it's much more convenient than the built-in ML-based solution (and also less hacky and bloated than AlDente). See this discussion [0] on GitHub for the explanation and this snippet [1] for easy use. This solution also works while the laptop is sleeping, the only limitation is that it doesn't survive reboots. [0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163 [1] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163#issuecomm...