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Pause Me – Apply the 20-20-20 rule to prevent eyestrain while working

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Re: Pause Me – Apply the 20-20-20 rule to prevent eyestrain while working

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Post by anupshinde » Mon, Apr 20, 2015, 5:29 PM UTC

anupshinde wrote: post #8

I have experienced that eyes strain much lesser while using a LCD display instead of an LED display. Experienced this pretty much consistently. LEDs start hurting my eyes after some time. And I use a MBP with Retina display for long hours - and I have to say, it has never put stress on my eyes at all (unless I make the screen too bright). Also I do not work at super-high small font resolutions - that allows me to kee…

Ah. Thanks castell, geococcyxc, emsy. I didn't know what Retina display uses. I guess my experience is simply due to cheaper TN panels.

Re: Pause Me – Apply the 20-20-20 rule to prevent eyestrain while working

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Post by iamlolz » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 12:23 AM UTC

ryanjshaw wrote: post #40

spain wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I recommend f.lux too. The only problems I've encountered with it are: - doesn't take into account wacky sun hours in nordic countries during winter, I get around this by setting my location to be somewhere else - isn't able to automatically detect when I'm playing a fullscreen videogame, when I would prefer it automatically switch off

- every now and then I'll edit a photo, upload it somewhere, and then get very confused about why it looks so weird when showing it to somebody on my phone -- it would be great if f.lux shut off when certain user-configurable applications are in focus

This is what's kept me from using it, I'm often jumping in and out of photoshop.

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