Hello! My girlfriend’s HP laptop running kubuntu 24.04 has this problem: when it’s turned off (either from the GUI or poweroff) it discharges overnight, from 100% to 0% in a few days.

I searched the web to look for fixes:

  • wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS
  • USB ports have no settings in the bios, but there’s nothing connected to them anyway
  • the system is actually powered off, not sleeping (at least if poweroff actually works)
  • everything, firmware included, is up to date

She doesn’t remember having this problem from the beginning, but cannot tell when this started occurring

Did any of you ever encounter this problem? I don’t know what else to do, and it’s quite annoying.

Thank you for your time!

  • @Magister
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    92 months ago

    on most new laptops, you cannot remove the battery that easily, you have to disassemble the back cover ☹️

    • @Landless2029
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      52 months ago

      I hate this about new laptops…

      I miss the old switch on the bottom.

    • @y0din
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      42 months ago

      That’s true, but long press on the power button still works, so you can try that instead then? 🙂