Or people just need to put the phone down before going to sleep. Every non-infantile responsible adult is capable of that. How hard can it be ?
Oh, sure. But how about infantile and/or irresponsible ones? I heard there are a lot of us here... ;)
Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
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Re: Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I and most of my acquaintances no longer have a traditional landline phone. My smartphone is the only way to contact me in an emergency. If friends or family need to reach me to extricate them from a bad situation or come to the hospital, etc., I want to be reachable. It's only happened a few times in my life, thankfully, but I don't like the idea of being completely unreachable until I wake up and turn my phone back…
touching "airplane mode" is too hard for you? it's a pull down, one click if you set it up right also, some phones with 5.1 or 6.0 can change modes automatically depending on time of day and can turn off mobile data and wifi - you can leave voice enabled for "emergencies"
Are you claiming that airplane mode will let people receive emergency calls? I am pretty sure that is not the case.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
touching "airplane mode" is too hard for you? it's a pull down, one click if you set it up right also, some phones with 5.1 or 6.0 can change modes automatically depending on time of day and can turn off mobile data and wifi - you can leave voice enabled for "emergencies"
Are you claiming that airplane mode will let people receive emergency calls? I am pretty sure that is not the case.
Sorry I had two thoughts in that last post.
If you need emergency calls, you can just turn off wifi and mobile data which leaves voice (and I think sms) intact.
Re: Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep
#54While I do think my Mac is overly blue, I also think that f.lux is ridiculously yellow. I've turned down the yellowness considerably compared to the defaults, and still find myself turning it off in the evening, because suddenly everything becomes washy yellow.
If you turn it on slowly enough you wot notice until you look at another screen.
I had the same experience when I spent an hour in a white tent. When I stepped outside everything looked super blue, and I had not noticed until then that the light in the tent was in fact super yellow.
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#55And yet Apple recently forced f.lux to take down the sideloaded version of their iOS app despite the fact that they have no public APIs available to do what f.lux does. See here: https://justgetflux.com/sideload/#notanymore HN Posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375
I haven't done any mobile development, so forgive my ignorance. But the concept of a program not being "allowed" on my device is bizarre to me.
It's not that the program isn't allowed. It's that the program uses unpublished API's which Apple doesn't allow.
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#56Or people just need to put the phone down before going to sleep. Every non-infantile responsible adult is capable of that. How hard can it be ?
It's not a matter of putting the phone down "before" sleep. That's easy. It's a matter of putting away all screens a full two hours before you want to sleep. That is an enormous pain, no matter how easy it is. And it's so easy to fix.
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#57For those wearing glasses, you can opt for special coating that filters some of the blue light out.
The one I got was ~$40 option when I last ordered new glasses, and was branded "digital protection glasses" and "Kodak BlueReflect".
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you allow your eyes to adapt, the yellowness really isn’t a big deal, unless you’re doing something color sensitive like making art. Just stop worrying about precisely what colors are on screen. Even if you’re casually looking at photographs, watching a television show, or playing a game, your eyes can compensate pretty well for a significant reduction in the amount of blue light, and you can have a perfectly acce…
I find f.lux unusable for quite a few TV shows on Netflix on my Macbook. I don't have an issue with the colours, but it introduces artefacts in very bright areas which are really annoying. Sure I probably shouldn't watch Netflix before bed, and I don't when I need to be up early etc., and I probably could fiddle with settings to fix it - but it is noticeable and annoying.
Yeah, it somehow screws with full screen QuickTime video playback. I think in those cases the video player is trying to bypass some of the standard OS display processing and send data straight to the screen to save power, or similar.
I’ve found VLC doesn’t have an issue, but I’m not sure if you could use VLC to play Netflix videos.
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#59For those wearing glasses, you can opt for special coating that filters some of the blue light out. The one I got was ~$40 option when I last ordered new glasses, and was branded "digital protection glasses" and "Kodak BlueReflect".
Orange safety glasses entirely block those wavelengths. This kind of thing: http://amzn.com/B003OBZ64M/
If looking through your glasses doesn’t make everything look significantly yellower/oranger than usual when you first put them on, then it’s not blocking too much blue light. You can try to find a spec sheet with the spectral transmission distribution to get a full idea.