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I missed the brightness controls too after switching to Mini + non-Apple monitor. Couple of weeks later barely thought about it. You might do more light-sensitive work though.
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Does anyone use something like this to use keyboard buttons to control monitor brightness?
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl/releasesYes, exactly this one. It sometimes doesn't work well enough on my LG 5K2K, but most of the time I'm happy with it. Even assigned separate shortcuts (CTRL+F1/F2) for the laptop display, very practical to quickly dim it when watching something dark on the big monitor.
Little worried about privacy with 3rd party apps like these
It being an open source project with the code actually in GitHub I don't think there would be any issue, but you never know, and the binaries might not be clean/untouched... You could compile it yourself from the source but I don't bother.
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so the M1 mac mini arrived, its great, using with new magic keyboard, also good in comparison to the AA battery version I had
Does anyone use something like this to use keyboard buttons to control monitor brightness?
https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl/releases
Little worried about privacy with 3rd party apps like these