AstonJ

AstonJ

Anyone use blue-light blockers or reducers?

Continuing the discussion from What monitor(s) do you have for programming? - just wondering if anyone has used blue light blockers or glasses?

Ben Greenfield mentioned them in a youtube podcast recently and iirc, said blue-light blocking glasses can help prevent damage as blue light can actually damage eye health - not just keep you awake as what we commonly associate it with. (Think it might have been in this interview.)

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dimitarvp

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Definitely not. I feel the effect is much less pronounced when you have a lot of natural light in the room and never entertained the idea. I do have a quite conservative schedule for my OS-es to auto turn on night mode (= reduce blue) though.

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dimitarvp

Installed redshift-gtk last night since I moved from the awful GNOME 3 interface of Ubuntu to Unity which doesn’t have a blue light reducer. Redshift is working quite okay.

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Displays are not so bright when the sun shines directly into most of your room. :smiley: Especially the smartphone displays’ brightness values mean absolutely nothing if you have to pull out your phone while walking on a sunny street.

As for the studies, I’d take them with a huge bag of salt. Especially breast cancer closely correlated with artificial outside lighting? Very oddly specific and I’d bet they got to this conclusion since they didn’t have big sample sizes to work with.

Still, I am on their side – I am very sure artificial lighting is damaging for us. But I also believe there are ways to severely mitigate the effects, f.ex. I know people who prefer red light during most of their evenings and have reported feeling more relaxed and in a better mood in their free time at home.

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