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Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by Shorel »

jasonkester wrote: post #16

This 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…

The right way to use it is to NOT use the default settings.

For me is: days, all the way to the right (bluish) and nights, about one third to the left (just a little reddish).

Also, make the transition last one hour (20 seconds is insane).

Also, I think it looks great only on HDMI, and ugly on VGA.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by rsl7 »

readme wrote: post #33
fredsted wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And the majority of people aren't motivated enough either way to comment, so we listen to the vocal minority with extreme views. Like everywhere in life.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by graeme »

matznerd wrote: post #20

F.lux is the reason I jailbroke my iPhone. It really is an awesome program. You can feel your eyes adjust if you disable and re-enable it. It definitely helps on the phone because it is usually the last screen I look at before bed...

Adding flux to my iPhone fixed my insomnia.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by ashmud »

DizzyDoo wrote: post #10

I used f.lux for a few months last year, I did not stick with it because: • It overrode the brightness settings on my screen, so it was actually much brighter than I would normally have it. • Whenever I needed to work on anything with colours (most design tasks) I would have to turn it off to get hues correct. The first one may have been sorted out by this point though.

F.lux is unusable on my work external LCD (junk panel), since I have the brightness/contrast/gamma turned way down in the display driver panel. I don't see any option to tweak this in f.lux unfortunately. I'll have to try it on my home LCDs, though.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by j_s »

I setup f.lux on all my machines to always use the darkest settings. Might as well spare my eyes the effort of absorbing any light that they don't have to!

In a similar vein, one someday project is to setup a vector-based (HUD-style) display using a laser projector (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005D6D6DY/?tag=hn2013-20 [affil]) and its SDK (http://www.picop.org/distros discovered http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4827130).

Always looking for ideas on reducing eye strain -- looking forward to my Oculus Rift! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-s...

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by Shorel »

criley wrote: post #7

As long as seeing correct color is not important to you. I'm the kind of person who can immediately tell when an LCD is not at native resolution and what temperature the color is set at, so the strong yellow tint of f.lux was unbearable. If your eyes hurt at night, just alter your brightness contrast, or write a script to do that instead of messing with color!

The whole point of flu.x is to emulate color temperature.

If you can have a driver or software that does it at a native level instead of emulation, that would be awesome.

However, I don't think monitors have an API or programmable interface for that, therefore we have flu.x.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

fredsted wrote: post #25
jasonkester wrote: post #16

This 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'm definitely in the latter camp, though my working day starts at 6:00 AM and the softer, warmer light in the early (still dark) morning is much nicer than the harsh blue of a normal display. Interestingly, by the time the screen colour adjusts back to normal (variable based on time of year), I'm happy to see it adjust as well. Best of both worlds, as it were.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by mnicole »

skrause wrote: post #51
jasonkester wrote: post #16

This 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…

My main issue with f.lux (and the reason I don't use it) is that you can't configure it to wait until a certain time to start with the transition. When I go to bed at 11 pm, I would like f.lux to start its one hour transition at 9 pm so that I don't see that much cold light the last two hours before sleep. And in the morning it should start directly with the settings for the day, without any transition. Tying it to s…

Similar issue here. I love it but it starts too early and clicking the "turn off for a hour" setting all the time was just a pain. I like that it initially tries to auto-tune itself, but I'd enjoy it even more if it had a customizable schedule.

And this might defeat the purpose, but if I could configure it to know what Spaces it was in in OS X, I could still design and not have to turn it off manually for just that one Space with the browser window in it, where knowing the actual colors is important.

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