I thought I'd throw this out there in case anyone has a Touchbar-equipped Mac. I'm on to my third one now (as well as having dozens of other Macs) but never really thought the Touchbar to be very useful, initially anyway.
In 2017 I discovered an app called BetterTouchTool which offers massive flexibility allowing one to manipulate the Touchbar to do almost anything.
Here on my 2020 MacBook Pro 13", I have...
A brightness slider also with tap to increase/decrease
A button which opens Safari on google.co.uk
A button which opens Safari on Art of Sound
A button which opens Safari on TZ-UK (watch forum)
A button which opens Safari on the Evening Standard website
The up and down arrows control the keyboard illumination intensity
A button to open Mail
A button to open Messages
A battery level indicator
A volume slider also with tap to increase/decrease/mute
Most of them are really straightforward to set up, the battery indicator requires knowledge of AppleScript (which is actually remarkably easy to learn), but practically anything can be launched or triggered, with the ability for multiple sequences to be tagged to a single button.
BetterTouchTool only costs a few quid, and works very well, worth a look if you like control over your computer.
I'm running macOS 11.0.9 Big Sur by the way.
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