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		alin23 on Feb 5, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trying to get past the 500 nits limit of the MacBo... ioreg usually reports the nits value in some property. On an M1 you can run the following: `ioreg -r -c AppleCLCD2 \| grep -i nits`

harha on Feb 5, 2022 [–]

at least on the iMac it doesn't work, tried:

  ioreg -l -f | grep nits

which should list properties of all objects, and the display I could find:

  ioreg -r -c AppleBacklightDisplay

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