It just seems weird that the solution to try to use tech in the dark is “make the screen darker”. And the solution to using it in a brighter environment, isn’t to make it dark in order to avoid hurting your eyes by having something bright in a bright environment, but apparently it makes more sense to make it even brighter.
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We don’t see absolute brightness (very much), we see contrast, the difference in brightness.
In a bright environment, the environment is so much brighter than the screen that we have a tough time seeing anything on the screen…we need to bring the basic screen brightness up so that the contrast on the screen is comparable to the contrast in the environment so we can actually see the detail on the screen.
In the dark we don’t need nearly as much screen brightness…you can’t “wash out” the screen in the dark but you don’t need nearly as much power to maintain the same contrast as the environment so, to conserve battery, we dial it down. If you don’t, you also basically lose the ability to see anything around you (try cranking brightness to full in a fully dark room).
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