Oh shit, now I know why I'm wide awake.

Somehow the night light was turned off. Maybe because I had to switch to Wayland to enable independent display scaling.

The new panel is almost exactly 1.7x the density of the built in on my laptop, and fractional scaling the builtin display to 175% at last I have two displays that don't render everything differently sized.

I'm sure that with time the Thiamine deficiency induced optic nerve damage will recover but for now, I just need everything to be a little bigger so I can read it.