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Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the portion of the screen where it used to be the webpage. I rebooted. Still happening FML please put a big disclaimer.

found that something like this fixes it https://youtu.be/t6jlhqNxRYk?feature=shared&t=8468 just play it in full screen for a few seconds

worked like a charm. thank you so much!

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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I like it. It's like synthetic forced form of meditation via a driving signal. Cool. Be nice to pair with a biofeedback headset.

Like one of those 1920s blubber-shaking machines, except for your awareness.

Hahaha! Cool! :) Very creative analogy :)

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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I'm not sure what just happened but this webpage literally damaged my monitor. There is now some flickering over the whole screen (it's not my mind, I filmed and checked my mind with another screen)

Given that people recommend pages like this to try fixing stuck bad pixels, makes sense that it could also break them.

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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post #45

Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the portion of the screen where it used to be the webpage. I rebooted. Still happening FML please put a big disclaimer.

It did the same thing to my monitor, which is NOT the program's fault. That's terrible hardware/hardware design if software can break it forever, especially if a webpage can do it... Someone could be so malicious with that.

My monitor has a built-in "LCD conditioning" thing, which just slowly flips through various solid color screens. That "fixed" it. I suspect a YouTube video doing the same would also work.

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same monitor here. Damn strange. I'd experiment more if I didn't need to work with it. Keeping the monitor off for awhile seemed to help , but a quick off/on didn't.

Yup, I turned it off, disconnected it from my Mac and left it for a minute, then rebooted. All seems fine now.

Capacitors needed to relax...

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the portion of the screen where it used to be the webpage. I rebooted. Still happening FML please put a big disclaimer.

People are saying that that if you turn it off (maybe even unplug it) for 10 minutes, it goes away. Hopefully that's the case for you.

Yeah I'd say unplug for sure it's amazing how many things can be solved by just unplugging something and letting any charge dissipate.

That was my go to trick when I was a slot tech at a casino. The old $50K/each slot machines often went crazy with errors some due to EEPROM "chip creep" other errors possibly static. So I just unplugged and waited ten minutes or so.

Re: Show HN: Alzheimer's Buddy: Use Flashing Light and Sound at 40Hz

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Warning: This just fucked my 2k$ 4k LG display. I ran the website 15 minutes ago and quickly closed it after 15 seconds. My screen is still flickering in the portion of the screen where it used to be the webpage. I rebooted. Still happening FML please put a big disclaimer.

It did the same thing to my monitor, which is NOT the program's fault. That's terrible hardware/hardware design if software can break it forever, especially if a webpage can do it... Someone could be so malicious with that. My monitor has a built-in "LCD conditioning" thing, which just slowly flips through various solid color screens. That "fixed" it. I suspect a YouTube video doing the same would also work.

I had a weird app do this to my screen, and a 4K YouTube video of just that appeared to fix it fairly quickly.
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