A big thank you

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I have never understood how windows decided to make it this hard to adjust your brightness if you have an HDR monitor and intend to use it as intended.

On one end of the spectrum you have Apple where their engineers went above and beyond to design a display capable of 1600 nits and the OS cripples it so that it can only reach that playing HDR videos. Granted full blast white page may heat the display so much it might damage it, but damn if it isn't useful to unlock this for use when working in direct sunlight.

On the other end of the spectrum you have Microsoft that tries to push HDR so hard that they actively force monitor vendors to disable the brightness setting which is the most laughably counterproductive policy as it kills the whole computer's usability and gives people the best reason to switch HDR off entirely just to get around the artificial limitation.

Now I can crank down the desktop brightness on demand (it still doesnt go very low but it's good enough) at night not to disturb others and to not sear my retinas.

To be able to also get an interface to manipulate this with hotkeys is really great. Thank you.