I develop an app called Lunar that can adjust the real brightness, contrast and volume of monitors by sending DDC commands through the Mac GPU. # Adjusting monitor brightness on Intel Macs This is a story about how getting an M1 made me quit my job, bang my head against numerous walls to figure out monitor support for it and turn an open source app into something that I can really live off without needing a “real job”. This already starts to sound like those happy stories about seeing how awesome M1 is, but it’s far from that. So I got it! With long delays and convoluted delivery schemes because living in a country like Romania means incredibly high prices on everything Apple. I also had the excuse that users of my app couldn’t control their monitor brightness anymore, so I could justify the expense easily in my head. One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. Home Blog Notes Stuff Contact Résumé RSS The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs How the transition to Apple Silicon made all monitor-controlling apps useless overnight, and how Lunar got past that

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