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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by hu3 on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:17PM (#38041199)
> How about, turn the brightness up to match the suns? Can't do that very easily either.

My phone has a setting for that.

And it's possible to do with a webcam + monitor: https://askubuntu.com/questions/23593/use-webcam-to-sense-li...

There's probably some software for that.

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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by fwmcbumcrumble on Friday October 27, 2023 @01:58PM (#38041728)
I don't understand why more device don't have ambient light sensors built into them. Phones have been doing this amazingly for 15+ years but almost no displays do.

I think I saw a TV a while back that did, but that's 1 out of the 10 billion models out there.

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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by FirmwareBurner on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:41PM (#38043638)
My cheap Benq monitor has a ambient light sensor, and I disabled it because it sucks.
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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by marcosdumay on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:45PM (#38043687)
IMO, phones have been doing this horribly for 15+ years, with no signal that it will ever be good enough.

I would never buy a TV with that.

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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by olyjohn on Friday October 27, 2023 @06:02PM (#38044575)
We had a Sony Trinitron CRT TV that had a brightness sensor on it like 35 years ago. It also worked horribly.
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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by mat_epice on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:11PM (#38044007)
My Dell laptop had one, which was very poorly done. Sitting in a dimly lit room, I would catch it self adjusting every several seconds. I ended up disabling it.
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Re:18-year-old built a better computer monitor that doesn't ... by actionfromafar on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:52PM (#38043770)
Your phone is hardly as bright as the sun though.
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