I am thinking my habit of drinking lots of water / tea / yerba mate helps. Means I get up and go for a piss every hour at least. Drinking lots of water is generally seen as a good thing.
Computer Vision Syndrome
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#82Against dry eyes,a micro controller and two airbrush pistols with natrium-destilled water solution. Its a shame there is no ready made solution built into or upon glasses... PS: Huge glasses that cover the eyes also protect against moisture loss.
Goggles. They may fog up, however.
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#83I am thinking my habit of drinking lots of water / tea / yerba mate helps. Means I get up and go for a piss every hour at least. Drinking lots of water is generally seen as a good thing.
Why is drinking water a good thing?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like there could be a Kickstarter. I'd want a high resolution external eink display as a secondary monitor. The refresh rate would be hell, but it'd be okay for text work.
I've been wanting something like this for ages. Even as a small-scale secondary monitor, it'd be great to toss static text like tickets or APIs onto an eink display.
Oh yes! At least Kobo readers are Linux and you can SSH in. You could even install another distro I believe. Some ugly hack could be rendering the display content on your machine and just sent the image over.
https://github.com/koreader/koreader uses Lua so maybe one could add some bidirectional or at least PC->Reader flow of data.
edit: VNC! https://www.joachim-breitner.de/blog/660-Using_my_Kobo_eBook...
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#85In case you have this problem. Flexseed is very helpful.
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#86I'm sure it's not true but... Once I got a high refresh rate IPS monitor, a lot of my eye problems (dry, red, tired) went away. Hmm.
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#87I think there is something with reading angle too: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aos.13148/abstrac... "Reading in a sitting posture at myopia onset predicted the greatest myopic progression to adulthood and reading face up on one's back the lowest. Reading with eyes on turned more downwards was slightly connected with greater myopic progression." I had some major vision problems a couple of years ago, to…
How did you eventually get over your RSI? I've been struggling through my own for a few years now and haven't had any real improvement.
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#89This is one of those cases where it's important to remember that not all equipment is born the same when it comes to ergonomics, even when it features similar specs. I have a 2012 MBP Retina, in retina mode (scaled at half the native resolution).; I can look at it for hours and hours without any problem. I also have a larger 4K screen from Iiyama, also "in retina mode"; after about an hour staring at it, my eyes are…
I haven't seen them myself, but the TrueTone displays in Apple's newest iPad pro seems to put a lot of work into this, particularly in automatically matching the color temperature of the surrounding light.
Some HN discussion about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11546490
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#90I use to get headaches every day (the kind that seem to originate behind the bridge of the nose). One day in effort to reduce the ache (a desperation move I didn't know would work out not) I reduced the brightness level in my monitor to the lowest possible setting. It slightly helped me cope with the rest of the day at work, but I forgot to reset the monitor. The next day I didn't get a headache. Turning down the bri…
Another thing to look into is FL-41 tinted glasses. I learned about them from a local vision therapist, and just ordered a prescription set about a week ago. There have been studies (e.g. [1]) indicating its usefulness for light sensitivity, migraines, and circadian disruption from using computers/TV at night. I don't have my glasses yet so I can't speak personally to their effectiveness.