Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years

Browser Extension Work Management Mac

Lunar.fyi Landing Page
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Lunar.fyi

Control monitor brightness, adapt using the ambient light sensor, adjust volume, switch inputs and turn off displays without fiddling with clunky buttons.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $23.0 / One-off (Pro)
MacOS definitely has its own bugs, I’m not siding with Apple because I like them or anything like that. I waste countless hours each week just responding to emails and explaining to people how what’s happening with their colors and brightness is caused by buggy Gamma implementation in a macOS framework, or how BlackOut (https://lunar.fyi/#blackout) is so unstable sometimes because of unreliable mirroring APIs, and of course I bump into the resolution and wake/reconnection problems you mentioned as well. Especially on Apple Silicon where the Display Coprocessor is still in its infancy, they still have a lot of work to do.

#Mac #Utilities #Productivity 77 social mentions
Twinkle Tray Landing Page
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TT

Twinkle Tray

Easily manage the brightness of your monitors in Windows from the system tray.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Looks like you’re out of the loop on this. No OS has the ability to control the real brightness of the monitor out of the box. At best it could dim the brightness through a software overlay, but neither Windows nor Linux implement DDC/CI brightness control by default. You have to use a third party app like: - TwinkleTray [0] on Windows - Lunar [1] on macOS (or MonitorControl [2] if you want a free, but less automatated solution) - ddcutil [3] on Linux [0] https://twinkletray.com [1] https://lunar.fyi/ [2] https://monitorcontrol.app/ [3] https://www.ddcutil.com.

#Work Management #Time Tracking #Color Temperature Adjuster 21 social mentions
Dark Reader Landing Page
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Dark Reader

Reduce eye strain in your browser with this extension that provides a dark theme for browsing.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Every site has dark mode :) https://darkreader.org.

#Browser Extension #Dark Mode #Developer Tools 183 social mentions