The last time I checked, this wasn't open source. I don't like running foreign binaries on my system. This doesn't rule it out completely for me, but puts me off enough that I haven't tried it.
Save your eyes, start using f.lux
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Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#32I tried it and the only effect is that I get sleepy/tired when it gets darker.
I seem to need my harsh cold 6300K in the night ;)
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#33This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it…
Whenever Flux gets mentioned, there's two groups of people: 1: Doesn't understand it, hates the "wrong" colors. Can't get used to it. 2: Appreciates the candle-like colors, says it helps them sleep in the evening or relaxes their eyes. I wonder if there's some sort of genetic difference? Maybe some people just aren't sensitive to bright light in the evening?
I would take this a step further and say it happens when any project or software gets mentioned on HN. There are always two groups of people: Those who like it, and those who don't. Those who don't are usually composed of a lot of people who don't actually care, but just thrive on contradicting people.
I'd say it's more of a personality phenomenon, but acknowledge the possibility you present as well.
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#34The last time I checked, this wasn't open source. I don't like running foreign binaries on my system. This doesn't rule it out completely for me, but puts me off enough that I haven't tried it.
Redshift is an open source equivalent for Linux and Windows: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#35This thing gets a lot of love by a bunch of folks here, so I gave it a good half year of trying. But it's just too annoying. Around 5pm, your display turns pinkish orange and it becomes a lot harder to see anything. Code gets harder to read, colors display wrong, video just fades to black. None of the advertised happiness ensues. The second half-year it remained installed, my only interaction with it was to notice it…
Whenever Flux gets mentioned, there's two groups of people: 1: Doesn't understand it, hates the "wrong" colors. Can't get used to it. 2: Appreciates the candle-like colors, says it helps them sleep in the evening or relaxes their eyes. I wonder if there's some sort of genetic difference? Maybe some people just aren't sensitive to bright light in the evening?
Bordering on group 2 I can't say if it helps or not because I've never had any problems with my eyes. But I have not experienced any hate-issues towards it so I have left it installed on all my computers just in case.
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#36For Linux users, redshift has better multi-monitor support.
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#37I like on my desktop but on my laptop it seems to conflict with some Asus energy management program.
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#38I've got irregular sleep patterns and this didn't help so I didn't bother setting it up again on next OS reinstall. I work from home, so can get away with working "whenever". For a while I've basically given up trying to "fix" my sleep cycle. I'm awake until I pass out and I wake up when I'm rested. This is of course suboptimal for workouts--you need to rest properly after workout to get max benefit from it. But lyin…
Yeah, I have a similar "problem": I'm 'rotating' my sleep cycle. I constantly stay up longer and longer so in a few months I'm awake at night and sleeping in the day - and a few months from that I'm awake in the day and sleep at night.
But to be honest that really doesn't bother me that much. It only get's weird when I have to set a wake up alarm to do grocery shopping before the stores close ;)
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#39On Linux, you can use Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
I came here to post just that. I don't use f.lux because it doesn't ship packages for anything but ubuntu... The beauty of redshift is that you can just stick it in a shell script and start it with every desktop session.
I have been using it with the following parameters: redshift -l : -t 6500:5200 -g 0.8 -m vidmode
This results in slightly reduced gamma all the time but only a moderate redshift that doesn't offset colours too much. I have it set to autostart and I really don't notice it being there, however I do notice it is missing when switching users or OSes!
Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux
#40On Linux, you can use Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Well, you can use f.lux too. I prefer redshift because of its CLI nature.
Does anyone else here use f.lux on Linux? I installed the Ubuntu version but not only does the "pause/unpause" option sometimes do nothing at all but other times it simply forgets to change the colors.