
For now this is not the case, which causes headaches. Ideally the lines between Thunderbolt, USB, and DisplayPort, alt-modes etc will blur eventually and customers won't have to think about what their ports and cables support – it should just work. For computer displays, USB-C can technically carry both DisplayPort and HDMI, although HDMI alt-mode seems to be mostly dead most USB-C HDMI dongles or cables use DisplayPort alt-mode internally. HDMI has some advantages in the consumer AV space over DisplayPort right now and I don't think it will go away anytime soon. Speaking of hardware, with USB-C becoming ubiquitous, and considering DisplayPort is a more robust protocol than the older HDMI, do you have a preference? Do you think HDMI should go away, or are you indifferent? Originally, I thought the app will appeal to lowly QHD display users only.
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So I am really amazed in a good way when a new MacBook Pro user equipped with dual Apple Pro XDR displays comes thanking me for a project that makes his $15K setup work well. I am using an older 2017 LG 4K display and an entry-level M1 MacBook Air with 8GB RAM for development.



As with BetterDummy, MonitorControl is a project of love and also of necessity. Just like BetterDummy, this app is free and open source as well. I think it is now the best app to control the brightness of third-party displays as if they were Apple displays. This involved much much more work than BetterDummy. I did most of the coding for version 3, with Apple Silicon support and various improvements, and now version 4 with dozens of new features. I've been working on MonitorControl since summer.
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What other display-related software have you written?
