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my top gnome annoyance has been that it enters power saver automatically, and then dims the screen after 30s inactivity even though I have screen dimming turned off in prefs.

Don't know about you, but I sometimes want to sit and read for more than 30 seconds uninterrupted. And yes, dimming the screen is pschologically, an interruption.

Astonishingly, there is a bug about this, and it was closed w/o fixing it
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/issues/671

applied the gsettings workaround at the end, sigh