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Never, ever do that!

Instead, log in, close all your applications, open a terminal and execute:
shutdown --halt nowthen press the power button after the system tells you to.
Alternatively, perform a REISUH instead of a REISUO…
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If the laptop still continues to lose energy, even when turned off, that is a normal sign of an older-but-not-old-enough-to-replace-yet battery.
to confirm, post the output of:
sudo tlp-stat --battery.
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P.S. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width is a more succinct way of giving a ton of system info without multiple lshw, lspci, lscpu, and/or lsusb commands…