thought i was losing my god damn mind and/or just going blind, but turns out kde 6 can now change the brightness of desktop monitors and defaults to 70%. just for fun
the ui for this is slightly baffling also so i didn't realize it was kde's fault
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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:
This sort of thing makes me think about a broader question about settings like this (usually in video games) - for volume, brightness, speeds of things (like text animation), should they default to maximum, or something less?
my personal reccomendation is always 50% (or whatever the equivalent is; 50% brightness is 1.00 if it goes to 2.00 when you max it out)
Yeah in AAA games I've usually seen brightness defaulted to 50% of its range, but audio volumes are always defaulted to 100%...
Shoutouts to games that store the audio settings in the player savefile so the title screen is played at 3x the volume of the rest of the game before it loads the settings.
This was specifically about video games, not for monitor settings. I think I run my monitor brightness at about 30% but it gets quite dark in my living space so its both power and eye strain saving. Either way, I do think undershooting is generally preferrable. Undershooting makes it hard to see, overshooting makes it painful.
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