[_dan]

A Macbook's minimum brightness is quite bright. The thing that annoys me no end is that if you hit the "dim" button when it's at minimum brightness, it goes black - but fades out slowly and smoothly. So they're clearly capable of being dimmer, but Apple decided we're not allowed that.

[agravier]

I've been using https://lunar.fyi/ to go below the min brightness and also beyond the max brightness on an M1, works very well.

[skhm]

Such a great application. Lets me easily work outdoors in the summertime at XDR 100%

[kule]

Been a while since I used a MacBook but can't you do Shift+Opt (or just Opt?) Brightness+/- for an incremental change still? Works with volume too.

[abakker]

I love apple devices, but man, these undocumented things make me question whose team their UI people are on. It doesn't feel like they're on my team.

[JohnFen]

The lack of discoverability isn't just limited to Apple. It's endemic. And I've heard multiple UX people claim that it's not a bad thing.

I disagree with that opinion, though. I think it's one of the worst aspects of modern UI design.

[voltaireodactyl]

I used to feel this way, but since learning that much of the advanced functionality is unlocked by Opt/Shift/Ctrl or some combo of them + click, I find myself digging that consistency more and more. At this point if I don’t see the option I need, I know 9/10 it’ll show up when I opt+click.

[walthamstow]

90% of MacOS shortcuts I know are because I accidentally pressed them once

[gymbeaux]

Even the dimmest fractional setting isn't dim enough for a pitch-black room imo

[lancesells]

I never knew this. Thank you for the tip.

[temp2022account]

I have a small python script responsible for dimming my thinkpad + external display; it takes an argument like 'b * 0.95' for 5% reduction, reads HW + SW brightness, and lowers HW brightness to minimum before then reducing the SW brightness.

Pretty nice and the only recent change I've made is making it re-evaluate the expression based on frequency of keystrokes (so 3 brightness-down keys in 1s becomes 9 evaluated decreases in brightness).

[kelipso]

On my Macbook Pro I can go smoothly all the way to black using the Display widget on the top right.