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In an average week how many hours a day are you looking at a screen? Computer/TV/Phone/Tablet/Other
I started using redshift a few months ago to try and rein in my sleep schedule, but it's also done wonders for eye fatigue. Highly recommended.
For those of you who aren't familiar with these utilities, they basically adjust the color temperature of your display on a schedule with the goal of reducing your exposure to bright blue light before bed. Can be toggled if you need to do work with accurate colors.
I highly recommend RescueTime to give you real data on your computer habits, both hours in front of the screen, and a real breakdown of work vs. wasting time vs. entertainment, etc... It has led to a conscious change in how I spend time on the computer.
There's probably a way to do it, but the general creepiness of giving them my intimate data made me not want to use it. (I personally trust them, so this is me being illogical.)
EDIT: I just realized, this was 2-3 years ago. That's an eternity, so it's unfair of me to even be telling this story.
Taking out sleep, cooking/eats (assuming not eating looking at the screen), reading (assuming not read from a screen), physical activities, hobbies, holidays, travel, etc and the number should go down a bit.
Of course, if you watch TV, use a tablet, a kindle, and don't do anything else, then the number suddenly goes up.
I settled on 10. 8 hour job. Don't watch TV, prefer real books, but end up programming on the bus and a few hours after work. Which is probably too much for a physically healthy human life. Need to do something about that...