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How to disable CPU throttling on the laptop

I realize this has been asked before, every solution I've found doesn’t seem to work for me.. In a nutshell, following an activity where CPU is highly taxed, the speed drops from 2.8 GHz to 0.79 GHz. ...
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cannot disable dell xps 13 9360 content adaptive brightness for FHD 1080p builtin display

I bought a new xps 13 9360 laptop with the basic 1080p FHD display (as opposed to the higher-res QHD one) and when I got the laptop, I immediately installed Ubuntu. However, I noticed that the ...
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Dell XPS 13 (9343) with SM961 NVMe SSD won't boot

My brand new M.2 NVMe SSD SM961 arrived today, and I decided to check if it improved the performance on my XPS 13. I know it'll probably be bottlenecked by the x2 PCI-E interface, but anyway. If I don'...
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Dell XPS laptop, black screen before boot, but screen test works

Tl;dr Upon powering up the laptop, the power light, screen backlight, and keyboard backlight power on, but nothing otherwise appears on the monitor (no mouse, no boot screen, nothing). I have reason ...
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