What does /g/ know about blue light filtering?
I've noticed over the years that my eyes have been getting more tired looking at screens and that I prefer the dark/black themes over bright ones.
I should I invest in these filters? Trying to find a good one monitor one.
They've been adding those anti-blue light coatings to glasses. Supposedly they do harm your eyes or at least mess with your circadian rhythm. Then again, some people said that the one who published those studies are the ones funding those "blue light is harmful" research.
>>55237292
you are getting old, soon your eyes get foggy and then its only a short time till death
>>55237292
>blue light is bad for your eyes
What the fuck is this meme? Better not go outside.
I use Redshift to change the color temperature of my screens at night.
Just install twilight
>>55237431
From what I hear, having a screen that emits blue light right in your eyes is bad for you.
The short distance of it is apparently bad for you.
Dunno about being outside though.
I'd imagine the light going through the atmosphere and bouncing off of the environment would handle that.
>>55237434
>>55237438
Don't like the orange hues.
I've used a filter on my 3ds, I like that concept better even if it's not perfect.
>still on pc at 6am
>f.lux turns off
>eyes burn
goddamn I dont know how people live without it
It's more like the violet light is bad.
If blue light is harmful to our eyes, then every blue object/material is.
I refuse to believe in this.
The rumor about nightly blue light disrupting our percieved day/night cycle could be true tho.
>>55237471
>The short distance of it is apparently bad for you.
It's fucking light. What the fuck. Fucking dumb cunts never take high school anything or something?
>herpaderpadoo blue light undergoes a magical transformation that makes it dangerous if it didn't come out of the fucking sky
>other photons are fine though, because magic
god fuck mother fuck
>hurdurr when I run flux it doesn't hurt my eyes
It dims your fucking screen because you're missing about a third of the fucking light coming out of it. Fucking armchair retards infesting this fucking planet, it needs to fucking explode.
>>55237471
There is no difference in light coming from afar and light coming from short distance. The only thing that blue light does is that it blocks the creation of melatonin. That's the hormone that makes you sleepy. This keeps you awake at day and sleepy at night. When you use a screen after the sun has set, you still won't create a lot of melatonin. The only difference that it makes is that you will sleep worse.
It's not harmful or bad for you at all.
It sends messages to your brain that it is still daylight, and you should still be awake. That can make it difficult to get to sleep, if you have a sedentary lifestyle and don't actually do enough to feel tired at night regardless of what color the light it.
So we should all just stay inside, in a dark environment? There's more 400-500nm light outside. We should get ride of all the fluorescence bulbs too...
>>55237546
Our circadian rhythm has evolved to react to different light conditions. The blue light that is naturally part of daylight suppresses the production of melatonin which regulates our sleep. At night, the only source of blue light that we had was from the moon that reflected the sunlight.
>>55237626
>At night, the only source of blue light that we had was from the moon that reflected the sunlight.
And the only source of red and green light was...
>>55237561
>>55237564
As much as I want to think it's just a grand ruse to get people to buy stupid shit, my eyes do bug the fuck out of me after staring at the screen too long.
Even if outside is the same fucking thing, the sun eventually goes down.
A monitor is still light no matter what time of day.
I'd think the short distance of it is still more harmful than being outside, even if the sun produces much more harmful rays.
I never had my eyes tire out after spending a day in the sun either.
>>55237665
See an optician. Memes won't help you.
>>55237570
I can attest to this. If I take a day off from work and spend alot of time on the computer, I'm up until 2 AM and only go to bed out of some weird sense of duty.
>>55237636
Red light would have come from fire. Green light is a mystery to me. Perhaps it's swamp gas.
>>55237693
I do.
It's not an health issue, I don't get dry eyes or strains or whatever it is people claim.
It's being tired from staring too long and being tired from working an unusual work schedule (I have to wake up at 2am).
>>55237665
>I'd think the short distance of it is still more harmful than being outside, even if the sun produces much more harmful rays.
The ONLY fucking way that objectively less light from a monitor compared to the sun would be harmful to your eyes is if you were sitting right fucking next to it straining to focus on it. If you have reading glasses/bifocals/sit far enough away it won't strain your eyes.
>>55237806
How do you define far away enough?
And even then, how is the sun worse if you stare (without blinking much) at a monitor for much longer periods in the a day?
This is assuming you don't look at the sun directly at all.
ITT: """"""scientists""""""
>>55237828
>how is the sun worse
Gee, I dunno, but maybe it has something to do with the fact that it churns out UV light which is pretty fucking terrible for living things in general.
>>55237876
Which can be blocked with sunglasses and sunblock.
How is using a filter for a monitor any dumber if we do the same for the sun?
>>55237890
>blocked with sunglasses and sunblock
I didn't know sunglasses and sunblock specifically blocked blue light. I hope you don't wear those gamer glasses outside.
>>55237900
But it blocks UV rays, which you specifically mentioned.
Why would doing the same for blue light from monitors be any different?
Granted you won't get cancer from blue light, but both lights are still pretty high on the spectrum.
>>55237919
>Why would doing the same for blue light from monitors be any different?
Because UV and blue light are different? I don't fucking get why you think that there's some connection there. Blue light from a monitor isn't going to give your eyes flash burns.
>>55237292
You don't need to buy anything, just install free software that do the same thing.
>>55237947
But if it fucks with sleep schedules, it's not harmless either.
I don't expect to go blind from blue light, but it's still annoying as fuck.
Hell, those blue light headlights people use now, while much more effective, are terribly annoying to see over regular headlights at night.
Even those blue LED lights that are on every fucking electronic now keep me up at night, I have to cover them with a towel or unplug them in order to sleep.
>>55238010
>blue light headlights people use now
It would be the same if they could use other colors.
>blue LED lights that are on every fucking electronic
It would be the same if they were other color LEDs.
You want to test it? Go buy one of those smart LED bulbs and set it to that one shade of red, if you saw it you know what I'm talking about. You'll go fucking apeshit within 10 minutes in a room with that bright red saturating everything.
The only possible issue is your sleep schedule, which you could fuck up anyways by watching porn until 3 AM every night.
>>55238066
A blue light headlight turned on bright is way more annoying than a regular one.
I drive a lot at night, it's really no contest there.
Same thing goes for LEDs, which I do have in other colors.
Yellows/oranges/reds I'll likely less notice over a blue one.
>>55238092
>A blue light headlight turned on bright is way more annoying than a regular one.
Because it's brighter. It's nothing to do with being blue. If red lights weren't illegal they would be as annoying if they were as bright as the blue ones. Do you know why ambulances are red instead of blue? It's because humans' attention is drawn more to red colors than blue colors.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jpa2/26/3/26_3_373/_article
Red colors cause increased anxiety. Go ahead and shift the hue in your monitor (don't fucking remove blue or you'll decrease the overall intensity) so that red is the predominant color. It will fuck you up more than you think blue is, and you'll still get whatever effects on your eyes that you think "blue" is giving you.
>be a glasses wearer
>buy into the blue filter meme
it actually works, eyes don't feel so fatigued as they do after wearing my non blue filter specs.
>>55238175
False because plenty of ambuiances use a combo of red and blue and in some EU countries only use blue and even green/yellow.
>>55237292
I don't understand where this "It's better for your eyes!" myth came from. Filtering out the blue light will usually help increase your serotonin levels, but there's no research that indicates that it is better for your eyes, besides the usual way that having 1/3 the brightness tends to strain your eyes less.
>>55238396
https://justgetflux.com/research.html
