Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
by hombre_fatal on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:28AM
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I’ve always wished the Macbook’s lowest brightness setting was subdivided two or more times. It’s still too bright when I feel like reading in my dark room perhaps on the way to sleep. I have to use an app called Shady to cover the screen in a dimming overlay.
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Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
by cmurphycode on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:45AM
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Have you tried using option-shift-[f1] to subdivide? or the brightness slider in the settings.
Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
by Infernal on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:50AM
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Interestingly, on my early 2015 13" MacBook Pro, the very lowest brightness setting seems to have no change in brightness on those last three subdivisions. Once I get down to one full "block" of brightness, option-shift-F1 moves the slider down in quarter-block increments but the screen gets no (perceptibly) dimmer until it shuts off entirely. All the other brightness settings have perceptible changes in brightness at every subdivision level.
Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
by 4ad on Sunday October 11, 2020 @04:19PM
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Oh my god, thank you!
How does one find these "hidden" features?
Re:A 20-year-old CRT monitor can be better than a 4K LCD (2019)
by jlokier on Sunday October 11, 2020 @10:37PM
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Wow, I had no idea that was available.
Unfortunately it doesn't reduce the dimmest level on my MBP. The bottom 4 subdivisions look identical. Like level 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00 are all the same brightness, only 1.25+ starts to get brighter.
The lowest level is still too bright at night. That's unfortunate.
However it does reduce the dimmest level of the keyboard illumination!
That's great. I always found the keyboard too bright at its lowest level at night, but some illumination at night would be helpful for obvious reasons. Now I can enjoy 3 subdivisions lower - thank you :-)