i have discovered a nice power saving trick with my multi-monitor setup

i have a small 16" primary below, and two 27" 2k displays above left and right, the one below is 144hz and i use it for games, lets me get nice frame rates, and is small for reducing the impact of it distracting me to shitpost on nostr

all of the monitors are set to do "dynamic contast" so when all the pixels are black, the two upper displays turn off the backlight, and if the mouse moves there, they light up dimly, and blink back out if the mouse leaves again shortly after that

these displays use about 50W of power when they are lit up fully, so when i'm gaming or shitposting that's 100W not burning, plus they don't distract me so much

just realised i could improve that further by having the taskbar actually hide on the main at the bottom and minimising all the windows on the display so it dims the light right down

honestly though, one thing that has come out of this is that i probably would prefer 4 of these 16" displays, i prefer the fast frame rate better, and they are more easy to pack and move... they don't have any kind of mounting mechanism though, unfortunately, but two of these and a laptop with dual displayport USB-c outputs would be pretty sweet too

the particular model of this thing is Arzopa Game display, the reviews of prior versions of it focus on the flimsy stand... this one has a nice one-side aluminium fold-out A frame support behind, it's perfectly stable, more stable than my big main displays when i'm typing manically