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Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by teeray »

I've been using this for about a year and a half now... Protip: the fast transition speed is a little jarring, I found. If you really want to "set it and forget it"... set the transition speed to slow and you won't even notice that it's changing over time. Also, make sure that the color temperature it goes down to is correct. Otherwise you will have a noticeable color cast at night. I have mine set for fluorescent lighting since that's what's around my desk.

The goal here is to essentially forget that flux is running yet reap all of the benefits of it.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by zacharystern »

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…

If you just set it to fade in over an hour, instead of instantly, you wont even notice it. That's how I do it.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by tmcw »

jmilloy wrote: post #108
tmcw wrote: post #79

Surprised nobody brings up the line in the footer, which seems pretty important: > F.lux is patent pending. So they're applying for software patents on this so-far-free piece of software that has an open-source linux equivalent?

Why not?

Not sure if that's sarcastic or trolling or not. In the event that it's earnest, software patents are relatively frowned upon by most non-corporate entities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by herf »

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…

(author of f.lux here) Color adaptation actually takes about 2 minutes, and we transition by default in 20 seconds (some video cards use a ton of CPU during the transition time, so we pushed it a bit faster.) The slow transition option should help some people.

Also a badly-calibrated monitor can give a very undesirable result color-wise, but a white page should look like your room lighting if we do things right.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by herf »

Osmium wrote: post #50
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'm not sure it's a genetic difference. I used to be in camp 1, despite trying Flux many times, but now I'm firmly in camp 2. The change for me was due to a change in working environment, and I imagine that's the difference for a lot of people: if you're in a brightly lit room anyway, then the colours becoming weird is just going to be irritating. If you're in a room with a lot of natural lighting, or trying to work…

f.lux does look wrong in a blue-rich lighting environment (like an office building after dark.) It looks ok in most people's homes.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by orik »

pretoriusB wrote: post #120
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 wonder if there's some sort of genetic difference? Maybe some people just aren't sensitive to bright light in the evening? No, it's probably people not noticing that they have a problem and insisting that they don't. Happens all the time.

Maybe some things just aren't for everyone?

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by herf »

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…

More improvements in this area are coming. There are interesting trade-offs between productivity and good sleep, and our next version strikes a better balance.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by herf »

brador wrote: post #77

What's the business model on this? Are they selling data on users? Is there a premium version?

We are not selling data, and we won't. There may be a premium version in the future. Some exciting improvements coming, but you don't have to worry about privacy or spam.

Re: Save your eyes, start using f.lux

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Post by strmpnk »

herf wrote: post #126
Osmium wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure it's a genetic difference. I used to be in camp 1, despite trying Flux many times, but now I'm firmly in camp 2. The change for me was due to a change in working environment, and I imagine that's the difference for a lot of people: if you're in a brightly lit room anyway, then the colours becoming weird is just going to be irritating. If you're in a room with a lot of natural lighting, or trying to work…

f.lux does look wrong in a blue-rich lighting environment (like an office building after dark.) It looks ok in most people's homes.

Might there be a way to sample white balance throughout the day to calibrate it using a webcam and a white sheet of paper? I'd probably start using it again if I could avoid fine tuning color temperatures manually.
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