It’s easy on the eyes. Really big deal for those of us with poor eyesight due to Nerve, muscle, or dryness Issues
I look forward to having a red light setup for night coding like my father had for his photography dark room.
Can you expand a bit more on this solution? Is this something you made or COTS?
It used to be automatic but it's not stable because there's only one point of measure. If I stood up and cast a shadow on the screen it decided that the whole room has gone dark and dimmed the screen to be invisible.
The only reason why I prefer that over doing it manually is the white point balance. It beats sitting around with a piece of white paper eyeballing it to match white on the screen.
I have tried every option with smartphone screens,: low brightness, night light filters, dark themes and nothing short of paper is remotely as free of strain as e-ink hardware.
Now OLED _might_ be able to fix things, but manufacturers don't provide low brightness settings for most screens at the moment (even though anything with a LED backlight could have almost arbitrarily low brightness), so I'm not particularly optimistic.
The example from that one guy that made a fake painting by matching light levels to a white wall was pretty convincing though, so I think it can be done it just isn't for some reason.
I have this setting tied to triple-clicking the sleep button, so I can activate it easily in the morning or late at night.
I had to fiddle with the settings quite a bit to get a 1x zoom w/ the filter, though.
Do you happen to have a link to this? I remember reading the original post years ago, but I didn't save it and could never find it again.
It's been referenced on HN a few times: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Another solution you can use instead of or in addition to this is installing backlights and more area lighting. Provide more even lighting coverage throughout the room, and don't compute or watch TV in completely dark rooms. Anecdotally this works for me at least.
Is there any body of evidence that working with displays with refresh rates in the 60hz range with improper contrast ratio days after days do NOT damage one's vision?
(Old 27" 1440p DELL where I have to use old HDMI-port as DP or Dual-Link DVI isn't option for main pc anymore, so trickery is needed)
It seems to me that if the emissive technology is up to par and properly calibrated it shouldn't be worse.