Notice Concerning Brightness Outdoor Panic
Screen brightness was raised to maximum at 1:14 PM and has not been lowered since, including through two hours indoors.
EVIDENCE
At 1:14 PM, the subject stepped outside. The sun was present. A notification required reading. The screen was not visible at the current brightness level of 62%.
Manual adjustment was made: brightness raised to 100%.
The notification was read. It was a promotional email. The subject returned indoors at 1:19 PM.
FINDINGS
The brightness was not lowered.
Under the governing rule, once brightness outdoor panic reduces anxiety once, it becomes eligible for unlimited future use.
At 2:45 PM, the subject was observed working at an indoor desk, screen at full brightness. The ambient light in the room was 340 lux, a level generally described as comfortable for office work. The phone's adaptive brightness feature had been disabled some months ago after it made an adjustment the subject found "unexpected."
The screen is now fully illuminated inside a building with fluorescent lighting, burning through battery at a rate appropriate to an emergency that concluded four hours ago.
By 3:30 PM, battery had dropped to 41%. This triggered a secondary event: the subject became concerned about battery life, connected a charging cable, then noticed the charging cable was creating a physical obstacle, rerouted the cable, and spent eight minutes deciding whether to move to a different seat near an outlet.
CONCLUSION
A tiny uncertainty triggered the brightness outdoor panic. The outdoor portion of the day was five minutes.
The user invented a threshold for when the ritual became justified. The threshold moved. The device supervised the adjustment. The person supervised the device supervising the adjustment.
At 5:52 PM, the screen dimmed automatically due to inactivity.
The subject turned it back on and raised the brightness.