actuallymentor/battery
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CLI/GUI for managing the battery charging status for Apple silicon (M1, M2, M3) Macs
8 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 6 comments · first 2023-11-21 · latest 2025-08-11
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…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/issu…
comment by jerieljan · 2025-08-11 · in Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices -
…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…
comment by amluto · 2025-08-11 · in Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices -
…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 ]
comment by _fw · 2024-03-24 · in Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever -
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…
comment by alaneuler · 2024-02-29 · in BatteryKid – yet another macOS charge limiter -
I think this [0] native approach is preferable [0] https://github.com/actuallymentor/battery/pull/163
comment by osdril · 2023-11-21 · in Charging a lithium battery to 80% only? -
…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...
comment by osdril · 2023-11-21 · in Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?