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What's crazy is that Vivid app...costs money!
by inference-god 11mo ago
What's crazy is that Vivid app...costs money!
- deaddodo 11mo agoWelcome to the Mac ecosystem. Where basic functionality is gated behind apps that Apple fans will tell you "are lifesavers and totally needed in Windows/Linux/etc)" for $4.99-14.99/piece. And, when they get popular enough, Apple will implement that basic functionality in its OS and silently extinguish those apps. And that's when they let you modify/use your OS the way you want.
- flyinglizard 11mo agoI don't mind that. 3rd party Mac utilities are nice: well designed, explained and do what they're supposed to because someone makes a living of it. I'm happy to pay these prices.
- nwienert 11mo agoThere’s multiple free versions and forcing HDR on isn’t a basic feature by any means.
- deaddodo 11mo agoAnd yet, it's a simple toggle (sometimes multiple, for specific display flows) in GNOME, KDE, and Windows 10+.
- nwienert 11mo agoA far as I understand Windows only has a toggle for HDR on vs off, that's not what we're talking about here, this is about forcing the full brightness of HDR always, even outside videos. It's something that manufacturers don't allow for as it reduces display life, it would actually be an anti-feature for a consumer OS to expose as a setting. It'd be like exposing some sort of setting to allow your CPU to go well beyond normal heat limits.
- jonaustin 11mo agoLooks like there's an OSS app that does basically the same thing: https://github.com/starkdmi/BrightXDR https://github.com/starkdmi/BrightXDR