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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
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Can that not be done with LCDs and OLEDs? Turn off the backlighting at least?
I guess they can. I can with my current laptop but im sure I have had some that won't go below a certain low leve but could do it with mine. Im not sure modern ones would keep the setting on restart of the pc or screen though. With the old crts they would stay blank until you moved the little dial that a lot of people were unaware of.
On my old phone I wrote an app to write screen brightness values directly to the underlying Linux device. It bottomed out at either 3 or 5, which was still way below what the normal brightness slider allowed but it seems there's a hardcoded non-zero lower limit.
Whoever hardcoded that probably was a victim of the prank one time too often. 😔