I like working at night, but nearly every laptop I've tried with Ubuntu can't reduce screen brightness to comfortable levels. Thankfully there is a convenient workaround. Under Ubuntu 24.04 / Wayland find Accessibility -> Zoom -> Colour filters and adjust to your liking. You probably want to pin the magnification factor to 1.00, too. The … Continue reading Minimising screen brightness in Ubuntu
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Disable Firefox media auto play
Disabling audio and video auto play in Firefox over the settings page doesn't work reliably at the time of writing (v111). I found this setting to get the job done: type about:config in the address bar Find the setting media.autoplay.blocking_policy Set it to the value 2
