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battstat
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imwally / battstat

battstat

🔋 CLI battery status indicator for macOS, Linux, and OpenBSD ⚡

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
138GitHub stars
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What it is

🔋 CLI battery status indicator for macOS, Linux, and OpenBSD ⚡

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What people are saying

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HN mentions by year4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-12-16 15:53:17 UTC to 2021-05-17 00:55:41 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Agreed. It’s funny that not too long ago I wrote a cross platform battery status indicator[0] that I could place in my tmux status bar and not have to worry about changing my config based on what system I’m on. Coincidentally it can also be used with bitbar. However, shortly after using it I realized it was more distracting than helpful. Now I just call the script if I want to see the status. There’s also less battery anxiety this way. [0] https://github.com/imwally/battstat
In Lifestyle plugins for BitBar – Put anything in your Mac OS X menu bar
I started working on a little CLI battery status indicator even before I knew Apple was going to pull the time remaining feature. On macOS I like to hide the dock and menu bar but usually keep terminal open with tmux running so I decided to write something I could place in my tmux status line where I could keep an eye on my battery life. https://github.com/imwally/battstat
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