Controversial opinion: if your monitor is set to the proper brightness for the room's ambient light, light or dark theme becomes a matter of preference. If you're in a completely dark room with your brightness set to 100%, then of course a light theme won't work.

[–] Johanno 21 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Ok now sell me a monitor that tracks the light level like my phone and adjusts its brightness accordingly.

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are actually some models already with a built in ambient light sensor. I don't know how much of a convenience it would be, whether it would be distracting if small changes in ambient light make the brightness go up and down all the time. I personally prefer changing it manually - I have a macro pad with knobs which are mapped to do that.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 2 months ago

I too, just disable the ambient sensor, but if I had to have one,
I'd rather have one that sends the sensor data to the PC, via an Open Protocol over DDC and let the KDE brightness setting handle the Brightness value decision (which would be easily configurable, of course).

[–] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ok so most monitors sold today support DDC/CI controls for at least brightness, and some support controlling color profiles over the DDC/CI interface.

If you get some kind of external ambient light sensor and plug it into a USB port, you might be able to configure a script that controls the brightness of the monitor based on ambient light, without buying a new monitor.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 3 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, just buy some gadget, write some scripts and maybe it actually works if my monitor supports it. OR I KEEP USING DARK MODE. Choices choices...

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I've thought about this as well, but I haven't been able to find such a light sensor.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 2 points 2 months ago

Turn on a lamp

[–] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

https://www.apple.com/studio-display/

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