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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 bla
by _dan 4y ago
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 4y agoI've been using https://lunar.fyi/ https://lunar.fyi/ to go below the min brightness and also beyond the max brightness on an M1, works very well.
- skhm 4y agoSuch a great application. Lets me easily work outdoors in the summertime at XDR 100%
- kule 4y agoBeen 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.
- lancesells 4y agoI never knew this. Thank you for the tip.
- gymbeaux 4y agoEven the dimmest fractional setting isn't dim enough for a pitch-black room imo
- abakker 4y agoI 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 4y agoThe 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 4y agoI 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 4y ago90% of MacOS shortcuts I know are because I accidentally pressed them once
- kelipso 4y agoOn my Macbook Pro I can go smoothly all the way to black using the Display widget on the top right.
- temp2022account 4y agoI 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).