On: Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)

[alin23]

In case you or anyone else needs to disable the MacBook screen and still use the mic, camera, keyboard, trackpad etc. I added a feature called BlackOut in my Lunar app that can do that (https://lunar.fyi/#blackout).

This allows "clamshell mode" without closing the lid. (although some people might want to close the lid for desk aesthetics, this feature is not for them)

On Apple Silicon with macOS Ventura the feature can really disconnect the screen by Command-clicking the power button: https://shots.panaitiu.com/x52NJxpR

There's also a write-up on how I reverse engineered this feature: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/turn-off-macbook-display-clams...

On older systems, BlackOut mimics a disconnect by setting the screen to 0 brightness and mirroring it to avoid windows getting trapped there.

[Firmwarrior → alin23]

haha, that was a really interesting writeup. It looked a lot like the process I end up following when I try to reverse engineer something

The whole way through I kept wondering "Wow, I wonder how he's going to tie this all together in the end!" .. and then I got to the end

[cscharenberg → alin23]

This is incredible software. Thank you for linking to it. It has features I've long wished for in a laptop!