Sun vs Timeįor me, it’s quite unclear why you are locked for only selecting the time and to base day and night calculations only on Sun position. In the past, people often asked me What is the best Color temperature?.Īt one point I just realized that this whole color temperature scale thing is broken and it will actually be better to have a blue light slider from 0 to 100%.Īfter some time it becomes comfortable to work with the color temperature values but why waste your time learning science. Most people are not familiar with the black body color and this color temperature thing only makes them more confused. Color temperature vs Blue lightĪnd what is this color temperature anyway? It’s the strong wavelength of blue light which enters deep into our retina causes eye strain and macular degeneration in the long run. It’s not only the melatonin suppression effect. I want to set the blue light to my comfortable value and maybe automate this based on the time of the day. I just want 1 slider with 0% and 100% blue light. I don’t need all of this day and night graphics of how light affects my sleep and what value is best to sleep better. What my problem really is is that I feel a lot of eye pain from my constant work in front of computer screens. I train a lot, eat good and even with a cup of coffee before bed I sleep well. So I don’t actually need this day and night cycle of the Sun thing. I and 99% of all other people who use blue light reduction software use it because we feel less eye strain when we remove the blue light from our screen at night. Melatonin secretion stops when our eye sees blue light.īut do people problem is actually bad sleep or it is eye pain? Sleep vs Eye pain Not exactly bad, but we are made to have day and night cycle of light and at night you should lower blue light to sleep better. The f.lux app main assumption is that blue light is bad for your sleep. Let’s first start with f.lux 3 which was somehow the first version of f.lux and was actually better than the new f.lux 4 beta which is bloated with not needed features. In this article, I want to make a general comparison between the 2 programs, but take my words with a little grain of salt since I’m a little tendentious □ What f.lux is missing? I wrote to the dev team if they can add custom control of the blue light and schedule by time, but they didn’t respond to me.Īnd this is how I decided to add blue light and color temperature to Iris. I had awesome sleep, but I was feeling really bad eye strain when I used computers. I found f.lux while reading one article about how to feel less eye strain, but what I didn’t like about it was that it was somehow focused on sleep which was not my problem. When I started to have eye problems in 2015 I wanted to be able to manually control the blue light of my screen. Click For current app to always disable f.lux when you open a specific app, like photo editing or graphic design apps.F.lux is a popular blue light filter program, but I personally hated several things about this program.Click Until sunrise when you are working late every once in a while.It will return to its scheduled setting after the hour is up. Click For an hour to disable f.lux for one hour.It looks like a circle with a squiggly line through it. Click the f.lux icon in your Menu bar (in the upper right of your Mac's screen).If you need your screen to be at its normal daylight brightness and hue, even after the sun goes down, you can temporarily disable f.lux. How to temporarily disable f.lux on your Mac Disabling f.lux will also disable dark theme. OS X Dark theme at sunset: Uses the normal theme during the day and switches to dark theme (dock and menu bar) each night at sunset.Preserves colors and shadow detail for watching movies with reduced alerting light. Darkroom mode also preserves night vision while using a screen. Darkroom: Removes 100% of blue and green light and inverts colors.
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