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by ronjakoi 151 days ago
That's an unreasonable ask. I'm not gonna fiddle with the brightness of my monitor throughout the day, thanks
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If you control your ambient lighting or use automatic adjustment, you don’t have to.
I can count on one hand the number of monitors I've seen with auto brightness. The number of monitors with acceptable and non distracting auto brightness is zero.
I mean, if you have a modern digital display you might be able to change the brightness through the DDC/CI protocol and a simple app or extension, available in every much every OS. With a keyboard shortcut or two clicks you change it. Fiddle with monitor settings is painful, but that protocol is a godsend. Even one of my cheapest 13 years old monitor supports it.