I sometimes just have a pdf open. This may save eletricity and hardware life.

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Probably won’t save much battery, the main power draw with modern laptops is the screen.
And CPUs don’t really die from overuse, so no hardware life improvements.
I suspect by limiting to 1%, you’ll make your experience worse, as things will take longer to start, but not dramatically effect battery life.
I am curious though, so report back if it works.

