Ahhh! Some annoyance at the contrast setting of the new laptop's screen not going nearly as low as I would like (minimum brightness setting of "a screen full of white will melt your eyeballs in 10 seconds" rather than the normal brightness' 2), which seems ridiculous given that it's a laptop, so its battery would surely appreciate being asked to give less power to the screen. After five minutes of poking control panels, trying various downloads to get extra contrast control (which all ended up affecting the same contrast value with the same limitations), ten minutes of donning and trying various pairs of sunglasses (and discovering they're all too scratched to be useful for the accurate vision required to read my 1-millimetre-wide font), ten minutes of looking for tinted sticky plastic that I could put over the screen, changing all my desktop settings so that eye-searing white (255,255,255) was replaced with comfortable white (200,200,200) and everything else scaled down appropriately, using Internet Explorer's accessibility settings to override the normal colour schemes of pages (many of which involved lots of white) with grey-on-black, and getting headaches (not in that order), I finally discovered what I had looked for in the first place; the NVidia control panel with brightness/contrast/gamma settings. At last, I am comfortable, having reduced the software brightness to just over 50%, and the contrast appropriately. I'd still rather be able to reduce the hardware brightness, though, since that would probably be better for the battery life. Still, the point remains, hooray for NVidia. Their drivers are the best.
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