What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction • Hacker News Board

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by gnicholas » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:40 PM UTC

Quagga wrote: post #5

Does anybody know how to grayscale all web pages in browser, and then add my custom syntax highlighting for code and links. It is not possible to change colors after applying CSS grayscale filter.

I tried doing this also, but couldn't find a way to make it work easily. Since my use case was slightly different (wanted to de-saturate everything except the body text on websites), I used a semi-transparent layer instead of grayscale. You can see what the result looks like in my Chrome extension [1]—it's the Focus Mode feature, which is still in beta and off by default.

1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/ifj...

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by skykooler » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:44 PM UTC

Is there a way to do this with color profiles in Linux?

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by mmjaa » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:45 PM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #12

Is there a way to do this with color profiles in Linux?

Your monitor might support it?

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by leggomylibro » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:45 PM UTC

>I asked myself how many people already see the whole world like this by default.

>...

>As a designer, I depend heavily on color...

I'm a little surprised that a visual designer wouldn't already be applying basic accessible design practices - but I guess it's not something most people think about day-to-day. Still, at the very least, consider running your palettes through a simulator such as:

http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simula...

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by Slansitartop » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

SubiculumCode wrote: post #4

40acres wrote: post #3

I'm currently going greyscale and have not noticed many differences in my habits. In the past week I've been using YouTube less but my YouTube habits have always ebbed and flowed. I'm reading the news apps on my phone slightly more.. greyscale makes articles have a dead tree newspaper feel with the black and white photos. Google maps is noticeably more difficult to use and so is Google calendar, which categorizes eve…

I think that for those that go for the visual experience this may detract them. But I go for the text experience, so..

Yeah, I thought about doing this...but then I realized I've already cut back the behaviors this is trying to control, or never adopted them in the first place (I was a late smartphone adopter and have had most notifications disabled for as long as I've had one).

This grayscale challenge seems more to help phone addicts break their habit, but seem to do much if you aren't one and/or don't use social media apps.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea. I'd probably do it if I could selectively enable color only for certain utilitarian apps, like my Camera and photo-viewer.

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by pbhjpbhj » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 5:58 PM UTC

skykooler wrote: post #12

Is there a way to do this with color profiles in Linux?

I wondered if Redshift would have it as an option, sounds like "no" but a dev thinks it could be used to do it, https://github.com/jonls/redshift/issues/364.

Maybe other night-mode apps include such options?

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by nategri » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 6:03 PM UTC

I think we're at the tail end of a unique cultural moment where "phone addiction" is even a conceivable idea. They are already arguably the human tool, and in a decade or two the devices will be so firmly a fixture of interaction that "phone addiction" will seem as quaint an idea as "book addiction."

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by dwighttk » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 6:12 PM UTC

Slansitartop wrote: post #15

SubiculumCode wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that for those that go for the visual experience this may detract them. But I go for the text experience, so..

Yeah, I thought about doing this...but then I realized I've already cut back the behaviors this is trying to control, or never adopted them in the first place (I was a late smartphone adopter and have had most notifications disabled for as long as I've had one). This grayscale challenge seems more to help phone addicts break their habit, but seem to do much if you aren't one and/or don't use social media apps. Don't…

on iOS you can make it so when you triple click the home button (or the side button on the X) you can toggle color filters

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by Psilidae » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

I wish I could try this!

I doubt there are many others here, but if anyone is still using a Windows Phone, I just submitted a suggestion for greyscale options to the MS Feedback Hub, so you can search "greyscale" there to upvote the suggestion.

Re: What the Grayscale Challenge Taught Us About Phone Addiction

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Post by trurl » Wed, Feb 28, 2018, 6:16 PM UTC

On one hand, configuring my phone to grayscale is to me a very intriguing "lifehack". But for better or worse, my phone is also my primary camera, and I tend to think that setting it to grayscale would impair my ability to take photos.