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1) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down.

2) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down.

3) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down.

4) very low candle-temperature lighting only after dark. Especially try to keep it out of your direct line of sight.

It'll work, but 1-3 are hard.

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I mean, what am I supposed to do in my leisure time if I can't look at glowing screens? Just sit around and pretend I'm in the 90s?

Read. Study. Listen to music or radio shows (podcasts). Play music. Board games. Prep food for the next day (pizza dough ought to rest at least overnight, for instance). Tidy and clean so you don't have to do that while the sun's up.

Generally, get tired and go to sleep much earlier because you're not hyper-stimulated late into the night by glowing rectangles.

The 90s? That can't be the dark ages already :) How about listening the radio, podcast, music? I wonder what the effects of audio are on sleep.

We watched TV in the 90s. Lots and lots. Try the 40s.

Maybe not the 40s, I know who's been there and says it was not the best times to be around.

Hmm, can people reasonably do 1-3 in places where the sun sets at like 6PM?

There are tools that reduce the amount of blue light emitted from the screen. They essentially turn your screen orange. The difference it makes is large enough that you wonder how you managed before it. The most well known is f.lux, but it's also natively supported in some phone OSes.

Also available in GNOME 3, on Linux, under the name of 'Night Light'[0].

[0] https://www.gnome.org/news/2017/03/gnome-3-24-released/attac...

Native in iOS, OSX, and windows now. Probably on android.

I use f.lux, it's fantastic: https://justgetflux.com/

Much better than the native solutions that come with operating systems nowadays

For Chrome, there is a plugin Dark Reader that works pretty well for inverting colors / dimming webpages.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...

Windows 10 also has this feature built in, called Night light, in the Display settings.

Not that long ago, everyone did 1-3 all the time.

Until ~20 years ago "screen time" was at least mostly limited to a (by modern standards) tiny CRT TV on the other side of the room for most people. Glowing screens filling a big part of one's FOV such a large percentage of the day is a fairly recent thing.

This would be impossible to follow at higher latitudes - I used to live in Stockholm where from october to mid-january sundown is 4pm

I sleep on my left side usually or back.

A lot of times I just fall asleep watching something on my laptop which also standing on its side a little away from me (not at full brightness though; but in general I keep my computer screens brightness to moderate). I just close the lid and push it away while falling asleep. Never bothered me really.

3) seems the hardest.

I would also recommend using f.lux or similar for your phone. I think it helps quite a bit, and it's the same principle as the candle-temperature lighting for your light bulbs.

>3) no glowing screens at all after the sun goes down.

Or wear strong blue blocking glasses after the Sun goes down.

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