Macbook Pro Highest/Maximum Screen Backlight Brightness (Fast!) via Terminal command

brightness.zsh

# on my MBP, this sets the screen backlight brightness to max much faster than any of the other working methods I've found
#  nobody seems to demonstrate that you can send a stream of events when they show how this can be used
#   might be 145 or similar on your hardware, try one at a time first:
#    osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\"' -e 'key code 144' -e ' end tell'
alias bri="osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\"' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e 'key code 144' -e ' end tell'"


# this wouldn't be necessary if opening spotlight, typing "displays", and hitting enter was as fast as it used to be