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You can not just tone down your backlight without having to measure the color profile of your monitor again. Which takes hours. As I’ve said countless times be

You can not just tone down your backlight without having to measure the color profile of your monitor again. Which takes hours. As I’ve said countless times before, we’ve got OS support for tonemapping HDR content onto SDR displays, now we need OS support for tonemapping SDR content onto shitty displays.

jraph 4y ago
I know nothing about color profiles, I'm surprised you can't just turn down brightness to read something comfortably and revert to the original level when you need accurate colors again. Or you want accurate colors all the time? But what for, if you are just reading an average document? I don't need accurate colors when reading text, but I need it to be comfortable. It seems having color calibration would actually suck for me if I can't adjust brightness depending on the weather, on the hour of the day, on the season, on whether I'm tired or not, or on the location I currently am, or on what I'm doing (reading, programming, or watching a video). I need to be able to adjust brightness without fuss. I guess I would buy dedicated hardware and put it in a well lit-controlled room if I needed accurate colors.
- kuschku 4y ago
  > I know nothing about color profiles, I'm surprised you can't just turn down brightness to read something comfortably and revert to the original level when you need accurate colors again. Or you want accurate colors all the time? But what for, if you are just reading an average document? I want accurate colors because setting it up is a pain, and switching between accurate and inaccurate colors takes your eyes quite a while to readjust. It’s much easier to just have everything in an accurate color mode and have content designed for that than to switch it around. Proper color profiles are actually even more of a benefit for cheap displays than good displays as cheap displays profit from proper colors even more.
elzbardico 4y ago
Yes, for you, who needs accurate colors for what you do, I assume. For the rest of us, it is not such a problem.

jraph 4y ago

I know nothing about color profiles, I'm surprised you can't just turn down brightness to read something comfortably and revert to the original level when you need accurate colors again. Or you want accurate colors all the time? But what for, if you are just reading an average document? I don't need accurate colors when reading text, but I need it to be comfortable. It seems having color calibration would actually suck for me if I can't adjust brightness depending on the weather, on the hour of the day, on the season, on whether I'm tired or not, or on the location I currently am, or on what I'm doing (reading, programming, or watching a video). I need to be able to adjust brightness without fuss. I guess I would buy dedicated hardware and put it in a well lit-controlled room if I needed accurate colors.

kuschku 4y ago
> I know nothing about color profiles, I'm surprised you can't just turn down brightness to read something comfortably and revert to the original level when you need accurate colors again. Or you want accurate colors all the time? But what for, if you are just reading an average document? I want accurate colors because setting it up is a pain, and switching between accurate and inaccurate colors takes your eyes quite a while to readjust. It’s much easier to just have everything in an accurate color mode and have content designed for that than to switch it around. Proper color profiles are actually even more of a benefit for cheap displays than good displays as cheap displays profit from proper colors even more.

elzbardico 4y ago

Yes, for you, who needs accurate colors for what you do, I assume. For the rest of us, it is not such a problem.