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How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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It’s adobe substance stager 3d

Oh, it's CGI? I wanted to know who your housecleaner was and if I could borrow them. ;) So much cat hair...

An army of robot vacuums working tirelessly 24/7 can help.

That is, until they encounter a piece of cat excrement. :)

Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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In general I think the population at large, and especially programmer types, know way too little about lighting given how ubiquitous both lighting and photography/videography is in our everyday life. Good on you for fighting the warm light fight!

They claim to know a lot but then none of them build proper Cf Lumen or F.Lux style tooling (i.e. super easy default instead of requiring tons of setup) for turning ALL blue light off (red shifting) IN THE DEFAULT OS as the primary way to use your device at night. None of that wussy shifting the color temperature brown shit that doesn't meaningfully reduce blue light hazard. I can literally preserve my whole night vi…

What do I need to preserve night vision for? Unless I'm using my computer to help stargaze, I would rather have color graphics.

Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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For me the revolution was to get a rather expensive monitor [1] with a great reader mode that lessen the flicker considerably. When I game with it and I turn off reader mode my eyes really feel the difference even though I spend way less time gaming than working. I wonder if OLEDs will be even better since they shouldn't flicker during productivity (from what I read at least). [1] was one of the LG ultrawide 34" but…

Lots of OLEDs use PWM, some at high frequencies and some not.

Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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Dimmable, adjustable color-temperature bulbs are one of those things which seem a bit unnecessary at first, but they really do make a big difference for quality of life. I use Wifi-enabled globes. On the plus side they have beautiful aesthetics but on the downside my lightglobes are probably going to get hacked and join a botnet.

Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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Sooooo, I always saw offices with neon bulbs, so, very very cold light (well, actually "hotter" in Kelvin degrees...) and very bright. So I copied this in my home office, which is a 12 square meter (130 square foot) room with 6x 7000K bulbs, each emitting about 800 lumen. Am I doing totally wrong, according to TFA? Should I replace them with warm bulbs? I'usong GU10 bulbs.

This article is just what worked for me. Some people are more light color sensitive, if you like your cool lighting and a lot of light and it works - go for it.

I wasn't judging anyone, sorry if it felt judgemental. I was genuinely asking, because cold, bright light is all I experienced in a workplace and when I replicated it at home, I didn't feel any particular issue with my vision. But I also tend to act a bit like a mule or workhorse in these cases, carrying on anyway until I realize it's actually harmful.

That's why I was asking.

Re: How to improve your WFH lighting to reduce eye strain

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> An even, diffused lighting environment is best for the eyes indeed. i am unsure where the love for those "spotlights" embedded into the ceiling comes from. every time i enter a room that has them i want to crouch like gollum. the only thing they seem to do is blind you. indirect lights can be expensive and hard to find though. i built 12 hanging lamps that illuminate the ceiling instead of the floor myself, which s…

Mind sharing how you made the hanging lamps? I'm currently designing a new house and was thinking of doing a similar setup. Any guidance would be appreciated.
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