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update: Turned out it was just that the HDMI switch can't handle long cables (even if that same cable works for the monitor, it doesn't work if going through the hdmi switch)

That worked ,tahnks! Talk about confusing wording lol (and requires restart)

I've been searching high and low but all I can find info on is how to hide the LOWER menu, but the problem is that my external OLED monitor (which is black 90% of the time as I only use it as reference monitor) is showing that annoying UPPER toolbar is there any way I can hide the UPPER one?

My soundcard (Rotel RA-1572MKII) is connected by USB to a Macbook Pro M2, but the volume bar is greyed out, can I really not control the volume? When I have the same soundcard connected to my Windows 11 PC, I can easily adjust the volume with the regular Windows volume controls. If I can't control it with the Mac, I will have to reach over to the soundcard-knob constantly (I tend to adjust hte volume all the time, control freak I guess) There doesn't seem to be any installable drivers for it either.

Thanks I looked into that now. Maybe it's the solution, I'm not sure, seems like there's quite a bit of explanation involved and means everyone needs their own Spotify account,

I haven't set this decision in stone yet, but the abovely reocmmended Spotify Jam features makes me think maybe I'll fully convert to Spotify

I have my house music system hooked up to my PC, but for parties there's always someone who wants to chose music, but there's just no way in H that I will leave my PC/phone unlocked just to allow that (for security reasons) is there a proper way to deal with this? I'm a bit of a boomer so I've actually never tried any of these Chromecasts and stuff (did a quick search but seems Chromecast audio is outdated?) I was planning on retiring my old laptop to be a kind of "family computer" void of anything private, so that any visitor can do whatever they want on that computer, but unfortunately that plan failed as I no longer have that laptop availible. The ideal solution would be one that is self-explanatory so I don't have to explain to people how to change the music

It wouldn't be a Microsoft thing, but up to the monitor companies. Like I said my 2012 monitor has a software that comes with the monitor that let's you control the brigthness from the keyboard

is your room not brighter during midday sun than at night?

When I'm using a laptop, my fingers are constantly adjusting the brightness of the screen by pressing the brightness up and down button. For example if there's a white window (like this forum) I turn down the brightness, if I'm watching some (SDR) movie I'll crank the brightness back up. I probably do this more than I even adjusting the sound volume, it's great, i love this level of fast control. But then when I'm forced to use desktop I'm just baffled by the lack of this super basic functionality. if I want to change the brightness on a desktop I have to reach over to the monitor, click like 6 buttons to find the right menu then hold a button to slowly adjust the brightness, it's ridicolus. Back in 2010 I used to have a monitor that came with a software so that you could adjust the brightness with a key. This software ACTUALLY sent this signal through USB to the external monitor to change the brightness there, so it wasn't some kind of software dimming. but nowadays I never see this functionality in monitors any more Am I missing something obvious here? I know about F.lux and stuff like that, but I don't want to software dim, I want the actual monitor/TV settings to adjust its brightness output, just like how they do on laptops

Hi, I bought 2 different powerbanks for traveling, but they both have the same problem: It thinks I'm trying to charge my laptop, but I'm wanting to do vice versa. The Usb-C socket is both for input and output. So if I plug the wall charger into the USB-C it will charge the pwoerbank, and if I use that same socket with my smartphone it will charge my smartphone. There doesn't seem to be any way of telling it specifically if I want to use it as input or output. When I'm out traveling I try to not bring any wall chargers, I try to just use my laptop for all things charging. In this case a Macbook Pro 14" M2 (2023), but if I can't find a solution to this it means I have to start carrying an extra wall charger with me as well.

Thank you that turned out to solve the issue. I'm not sure why the other cable worked on PC but not for the Mac, but in either case an optical cable solved it, it was just a bit difficult to source where I live

No i haven't tried optical, I'm tempted to but they are quite expensive and would take so long delivery time where I live. if a PC were acting up with hdmi 2.1, I would simply have set the framerate lower, so that at least I could experience 60fps hdr (or as low as 24), but the mac won't let me because it disconnects the second monitor before I have a chance to change the setting

I have a Samsung s95b OLED TV with a 2.1 HDMI cable, when I plug that into my PC I get 120p 4k HDR, but when I plug that exact same cable into the macbook it just goes into an endless loop of detecting the TV for a second then dissconnecting, over and over again or.. if I turn off the hdmi 2.1 setting on the TV then it works from the Mac, but then the HDR button dissapears (from the Mac settings) and the framerate goes up to only 60. I've tried with 3 different HDMI cables. I will admit that HDMI 2.1 cables are super finniky, the slightest bit of extra twist on them can downgrade them into hdmi 2.0 specs, but I think that isn't what's happening here.

Thanks for the help, I've done a video now to try to expose others from getting scammed by this