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macbook: fan control, thermald, earlyoom; cheaper compositor

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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rope 2026-08-07 14:20:54 +01:00
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hosts/FredOS-Macbook.nix
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@ -29,6 +29,19 @@
services.tlp.enable = false;
services.power-profiles-daemon.enable = true;
# Linux leaves the Apple SMC fans at their minimum RPM — nothing in-tree
# ramps them. The CPU therefore sits at its thermal limit under any real
# load and throttles instead of spinning up. mbpfan drives applesmc.
services.mbpfan.enable = true;
# Haswell's own thermal management: throttle gradually via RAPL/P-states
# instead of waiting for the hardware's PROCHOT emergency brake.
services.thermald.enable = true;
# Zen eats the 8GB before zram can save it; without this the box hard-locks
# swapping instead of killing the tab that did it.
services.earlyoom.enable = true;
# Quickshell's battery widget reads org.freedesktop.UPower over DBus
services.upower.enable = true;

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settings/hyprland.nix
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@ -125,7 +125,10 @@ in
blur = {
enabled = true;
size = 1;
passes = 3;
# 3 passes is 3 full-screen shader round-trips per frame. Free
# on Navi 22, not on the Macbook's gen7.5 iGPU driving a 2x
# scaled panel.
passes = if isMacbook then 1 else 3;
};
shadow.color = rgba c.base00 "99";
};
@ -195,7 +198,12 @@ in
# vfr moved from misc: to debug: in 0.55.0
debug = {
vfr = false; # keep compositor ticking, don't idle between frames
# vfr=false renders every refresh forever, idle or not. That was
# the pre-patch workaround for cursor lag; the aquamarine
# legacy-cursor patch now moves the cursor by ioctl, so the
# Macbook can idle its GPU between frames again. Gaming box keeps
# the constant tick (games/present timing).
vfr = isMacbook;
disable_logs = false;
};
};