My Laptop is so Hot

I've bought my reconditioned DELL Latitude 7490 a year and a half ago. I reminder Latitudes to be good laptops since I had one fo my PhD studies and keep warm memories of that machine. However something clicked instantly when I started using it: bro's so hot 🥵

I find it really annoying. I essentially use it to write code, compile stuff and mostly terminal-based tasks. I installed an Archlinux with AwesomeWM on it, so clearly we're not talking about heavy load. But still, that 4x2 cores beast and its 32GB of RAM easily get busy and the fans kick off extremely soon. The laptop gets warm, the fans are loud and I discovered two days ago that the battery had already lost more than 30% of its capacity. Bueno...

Surely there must be settings I can tweak to preserve my powerful machine[1], but still I'm sad and a bit angry that this perfectly fine machine seems to be trying to kill itself at every moment possible.

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[1]: I have unplugged my gaming rig to install an RPi instead and spend most of my computer time on a low-profile machine. But sometimes I still require horse-power to, you know, load some HTML.