If you look up on how to change GNOME’s power profile settings through a CLI command, you are likely pointed at power-profiles-daemon somewhere on the web.

However, apparently (according to Claude Opus 4.8), since Fedora 41, this daemon is neither used nor necessary anymore:

Fedora dropped power-profiles-daemon as the default in Fedora 41+ in favor of tuned (via a compatibility shim called tuned-ppd), which speaks the same D-Bus API so GNOME Settings doesn’t notice the difference.

This means you can change the power mode via the CLI as follows:

tuned-adm list             # show available profiles
tuned-adm active           # show current profile
sudo tuned-adm profile powersave     # or: balanced / throughput-performance

I did not verify the history of this change, but I verified that the tuned-adm commands work on Bluefin at the time of writing (based on Fedora 44 Silverblue & Gnome 50.3).

I hope this page helps you to avoid a rabbit hole where you hopelessly attempt to compile power-profiles-daemon in a Distrobox.