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Automatic Brightness in Plasma

19 points by speckx

by jeffbee

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Interesting. I've always wondered how other platforms do this. The only one I have studied is ChromeOS. Believe it or not, ChromeOS uses an online learning model to learn the user's preferred transfer function from ambient light to display brightness.
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/12...

by jauntywundrkind

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Anything has to be better than Android, man. Samsung's "adaptive" brightness being full loss of control, only using the one map that's builtin is infuriating. It should also be capable of adapting to what I want, somewhat, too, at the same time.
Adaptive meaning "you have no control" is so typical of computing, so bad.
Especially on phones, where yes we need mass market acceptability but where these kinds of fixedness really hamper people so much. The more constrained platforms are the ones where it's most important of all that we have adaptability & extensions, freedom to use our options well.
On the ALS (ambient light sensor ) front: anybody else out there with a ColorHug ALS (or two) they have barely used at all? Would be lovely to make use of this more, even a decade and change down the road!! https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2015/03/17/introducing-color...