Simply, whenever the battery goes less than 50%, the apps start throttling, taking longer to respond, etc. This is likely the work of gnome-power-manager giving low battery notifications at 50% when it should be 10% or below.
Model: Inspiron 5567 15 inch laptop
gnome-power-manager:
Installed: 3.32.0-1
Candidate: 3.32.0-1
Version table:
*** 3.32.0-1 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Ubuntu 19.10
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 3.32.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Dec 15 18:38:42 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-11-20 (25 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan Ermine" - Release amd64 (20191017)
Package: upower 0.99.11-1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-24.26-generic 5.3.10
Tags: eoan
Uname: Linux 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo
_MarkForUpload: True
mtime.conffile..etc.apport.crashdb.conf: 2019-11-27T12:43:30.211160
apport information