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Something that drives me absolutely bonkers is how laptops, phones, tablets, all treat brightness as a first class feature. But if you want to quickly adjust brightness on your desktop monitors, it’s intensely tedious or requires you to be tech savvy and install software.

Why oh why can’t I just Fn + Fkeys to adjust brightness on the fly?!



there used to be buttons for that but then they figured out providing less buttons and instead horrible menus for button things was cheaper.


I vaguely remember analog wheels on some of the really old monitors. Maybe the Apple IIgs or LC3 had that? Would kill for that today.


> Why oh why can’t I just Fn + Fkeys to adjust brightness on the fly?!

On my Thinkpad T550 I can use Fn + F5/F6 to adjust the brightness.


Your parent was complaining about desktops, not laptops. They specifically called out that laptops do this correctly (along with most other devices)


Oh. You are right. I did not properly grasp the post.


I use "MonitorControl" on my Mac Studio to control the brightness of my Dell monitor:

https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl


probably because software side still wishes for the buttons on the side of the screen (anyone remembers degaussing?)


I loved how the longer you waited, the more wacky the degaussing would be.




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