A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement

Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by nchrys on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:26PM (#10905199)

I use f.lux on my Mac and it has made a real difference in my sleep. On my iPad when I am reading late I use the inverted colors mode which can be triggered by pressing three times on the home button (if you activate the shortcut). I would say this is even more a relief for the eyes, as not only blue colors become warm but all the white that is the background color for most everything becomes just dark. Of course you can't watch movies in these conditions but I highly recommend this for readers.

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by shostack on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:52PM (#10905815)

This. When I'm working at night on my desktop or laptop, I'm using f.lux. When I'm browsing the web late at night, I have my brightness set as low as it can go, and invert colors. Unfortunately the flickering of changing pages, images, etc. and going from a page that has a white background to one that is black (which shows up as white inverted) still wakes my wife up, so when I anticipate flickering, I have to hide under the sheets to read like a little kid reading past his bedtime.

Further, the minimum brightness on iPads is still blinding. You have to download a specific "night browsing" browser just to get it to go lower, and if you are in an ebook reader, you are reliant on them having something to help.

Ultimately, I found that for ebooks I'm just way better off with one of the new Kindle Paperwhites, which I'm absolutely in love with. However I still find myself wishing that they had a native way to invert the colors of text. This is trivial to do with common ebook/text doc formats, and I really wish they'd make it an easy "night reading" feature. Having the entire screen with a white background causes unnecessary eye strain and brightness when reading at night. Reading white text on a black background is SOOO much easier on the eyes in a low-light situation.

Taking it a step further, while I hate backlit screens for night reading, one of my favorite reading setups is using a "terminal green" on black in Stanza on my iPad. Now if only the Kindle Paperwhite could do color...

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Re:A statement from f.lux about Apple's recent announcement by tacos on Thursday January 14, 2016 @06:17PM (#10905583)

I see this exact statement repeatedly and it concerns me. F.lux isn't designed to make things "easy on the eyes." If you're having that reaction, and you feel it as strongly as your post implies, it may indicate a different health problem.

You should consider getting glasses or altering your prescription. And if you're suffering eye fatigue it's probably not a great idea to be reading on a screen late at night regardless of the colors. Research "eye strain" for other suggestions that may help you.

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