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Fix: Battery Drain During Suspend on Linux (Modern Standby / s2idle laptops)

The Problem

On many modern laptops (especially AMD-based systems from Dell, Lenovo, HP, and others), closing the lid suspends the laptop — but it still drains roughly 3% battery per hour, potentially dying overnight. This is caused by the suspend mode the hardware uses.

Why This Happens

Modern AMD laptops and many recent laptops have dropped S3 sleep ("Suspend to RAM") in favour of Modern Standby (s2idle). You can confirm this:

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Ducky Feather Mouse Switch Left Right mode

This will tell you how to switch between left and right handed mode.

In this, I will be talking about the physical location of the button, not the "logical" mapping.

Step 1

Identify which button is mouse button 6.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Alpha Component</key>
		<real>1</real>
		<key>Blue Component</key>
		<real>0.4117647111415863</real>

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        {
            "background": "#24292E",
            "black": "#586069",
            "blue": "#2188FF",
            "brightBlack": "#959DA5",
            "brightBlue": "#79B8FF",
            "brightCyan": "#56D4DD",
            "brightGreen": "#85E89D",
            "brightPurple": "#B392F0",
            "brightRed": "#F97583",

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primary:
  background: '#181818'
  foreground: '#C7C7C7'
normal:
  black:   '#000000'
  red:     '#CD3131'
  green:   '#0DBC79'
  yellow:  '#E5E510'
  blue:    '#2472C8'
  magenta: '#BC3FBC'

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Computer Information:
    Manufacturer:  Unknown
    Model:  Unknown
    Form Factor: Desktop
    No Touch Input Detected

Processor Information:
    CPU Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    CPU Brand:  AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core Processor         
    CPU Family:  0x17

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snap install go
flatpak install flathub com.visualstudio.code
flatpak override --user --env=GOROOT=/snap/go/current

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git duff

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resolution_type: GETDNS_RESOLUTION_STUB
dns_transport_list:
  - GETDNS_TRANSPORT_TLS
tls_authentication: GETDNS_AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED
tls_query_padding_blocksize: 128
edns_client_subnet_private : 1
idle_timeout: 10000
listen_addresses:
  - 127.0.0.1
  -  0::1

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package main

import (
	"flag"
	"fmt"
	"os"
)

func main() {
	verbose := flag.Bool("v", false, "verbose mode")