thermald is good for ordinary users I guess. I hate those things though. I disabled all of those thermal and laptop mode management daemons on my Fedora laptop

thermald is good for ordinary users I guess. I hate those things though. I disabled all of those thermal and laptop mode management daemons on my Fedora laptop. I ran a CPU stress while manually tweaking the Intel RAPL settings until I found the 80C limit and just set that on boot. I also wrote into the boot scripts the powertop settings that I liked. Even without RAPL settings the laptop won't fry itself. You can see the machine check events in dmesg as the CPU hits 90-95C and throttles.