Seriously, more efficiency is always good, but does anyone actually test monitors for low brightness performance, how good is the color at 100 nits, 50 nits, 10 nits, how low can they go? It's like reviewers have totally forgotten that dark rooms exist.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I mean, bright sunlight is the worst case for contemporary displays, so you usually don't have that. And you don't want to stare in a lamp for most of the time.

I usually have to help with xrandr --brightness and --gamma, even in daylight, because the darn thing is still too bright on it's lowest setting. What's important for me is therefore contrast, not brightness.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I'm more concerned with outdoor signs and billboards at night. There's one near me that's so ridiculously bright that it's hard to drive by there at night.

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Could be useful if you want to watch TV outside in the sun 😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlFVPnGEb8o

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago

you jest but doing work on a monitor outside even with non reflective screen is tough.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

Seriously, I already have to put my monitors on nearly the lowest brightness as it is. So tired of extreme bright lighting. Especially offices.

[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah, my finger can only fiddle the brightness toggle so much. Any more and I’m going to be playing Operation with the slider widget.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

bright as the sun you say.