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Written by abadidea on 2025-01-18 at 17:08

if white websites burn your eyes out but they didn't a few years ago, it might just be that you haven't noticed that screens have gotten way brighter the last several years and out of habit you turned your screen brightness up enough to overpower the sun

if you turn it down, it might look way too dim in the moment, but give your eyes a few minutes to adjust and it'll probably look perceptually the same again. People look at my screenshots and say "how can you stand light mode?!" but my laptop brightness is at like 40% and my iPad is often as low as 10%. Bonus: battery magically doubles in capacity

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-18 at 17:15

@0xabad1dea I use the Dimmer app, which adds an overlay to Android, to reduce the screen brightness to lower than this possible on the phone normally. It's great for reading in a less brightly lit room

I like NewPipe for a similar reason to watch YouTube, as it puts the screen brightness controls on the left half of the screen, in full screen mode, so I can adjust the screen brightness as I'm watching. (right is volume)

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-18 at 17:25

@webhat @0xabad1dea The Pixels have an Extra Dim setting, I'm not sure if all Android phones have it or not though. I use dark mode for everything and then I setup Tasker to automatically enable Extra Dim when the Night Light setting turns on at dusk. Bedtime Mode kicks on at 11pm automatically as well.

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-18 at 17:42

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea really, I have a pixel and Dimmer still dims the screen more

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-18 at 20:34

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea this is a screenshot of the dimmest setting

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-18 at 23:43

@webhat @0xabad1dea Oh wow that is definitely darker than what I can accomplish with this setup. I my eyes wouldn't be able to read that unfortunately 😞

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-19 at 07:38

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea

I can only read the darkest setting in a completely dark room, even then it can be quite challenging depending on tiredness. Still even at the brightness I read at at night in bed my phone basically looks off in bright light, so I'm had to practice signing in with basically a black screen and navigate the UI by muscle memory alone to turn the Dimmer off 😅

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-19 at 20:05

@webhat @0xabad1dea What is the full app name? I'd like to check it out but didn't see it when I searched the Play Store.

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-19 at 20:40

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea it's not on the playstore, you can find it on @fdroidorg

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-21 at 14:31

@webhat @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg I saw that, but wasn't sure about it since it was last updated 9 years ago.

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-21 at 19:57

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg if you have one job, there's little you need to update once it works

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-21 at 21:26

@webhat @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg Hmm yeah it won't let me install the app for being too old for my P9P on Android 15.

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-21 at 21:39

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg sorry about that, I wrote an update for the app sometime ago. It made the app using later Android APIs, it was worse than the one using the older APIs, as the overlay doesn't cover the Android navigation at the bottom. You could try it, I'll have to see whether I still have and APK for it tho 🙄

https://github.com/webhat/dimmer

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Written by CarRamrod@infosec.town on 2025-01-21 at 22:55

@webhat @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg Ah it requires SDK version 24 so it still failed. Oh well, I appreciate your help though!

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Written by webhat on 2025-01-22 at 06:18

@CarRamrod @0xabad1dea @fdroidorg no problem, sorry I couldn't help

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