# 🔗 Baseline is now 3.6W

- Author: @gurupanguji
- Date: 2026-05-25
- URL: https://gurupanguji.com/blog/2026/05/25/baseline-is-now-3-6w/
- Categories: link, technology
- Tags: linux, efficiency, software

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> With Terminal User Interface (TUI) for everything fiesible, my XPS 14 now idles at no more than 3.6W (sometimes even below 3W) with the screen at 70% brightness. The battery is 70 Wh.
> ...
> Today I finished another round of idle-tick surgery on my Rust TUI stack. The numbers:
> 
> - ~198,000 idle wakeups per day eliminated across [kastrup](https://github.com/isene/kastrup) and [tock](https://github.com/isene/tock).
> - ~41,800 redundant SQLite queries per day removed from tock.
> - Two poller threads converted from 1-second spin-checks to Condvar waits.
> - One main loop moved from a 2-second wake tick to 10 seconds.

*Source:* [Baseline is now 3.6W](https://isene.org/2026/05/Baseline.html)

😳

That's an impressive idle consumption for a non-Mac machine. I get that this is unlikely to be the best setup for most people. However, this is a fantastic example of how LLMs are making [software more personal](/blog/2026/04/12/a-local-first-task-framework/) than ever for those who care and are opinionated.

**Related:** [Caleb Hailey on a Mac-Neo as a perfect always-on computer](/blog/2026/09/22/caleb-hailey-on-a-mac-neo-as-a-perfect-always-on-computer/).