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Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by codebje on Monday August 06, 2018 @07:58PM (#17702820)
Have a look at f.lux, which alters your display's colour temperature as the time of day changes, shifting away from blues into the evening.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by copperx on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @03:56AM (#17704600)
Flux and night shift modes only reduce blue light, but they don't eliminate it, unless you have an OLED display. Backlights on LCD have tons of blue light that can't be reduced without a physical filter.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by eggie on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @02:38AM (#17704294)
Ubuntu 18.04 has a night mode built into the gnome shell. It works really well, allowing a complete removal of blue.

But neither of these has any point if you have blue light bleeding through from the LED backlight of the LCD screen. The most complete solution is OLED and a screen temperature adjustment like this.

Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by redisman on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:11PM (#17702868)
macOS and iOS also have Night Shift these days which is the same feature baked in.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by ekun on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:05PM (#17703611)
Windows also has had this for a little while. I don't know if it's a default in Android.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by Vendan on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:37AM (#17707581)
Modern android has a "night mode" that you can configure to turn on after a certain time of day that cuts the blue light.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by scns on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:19AM (#17704037)
LineageOS has it, do not know about stock.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by flamedoge on Monday August 06, 2018 @11:28PM (#17703675)
Windows Night Light
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by graeme on Monday August 06, 2018 @08:17PM (#17702899)
Doesn’t go as far. Colour filters in ios accessibility do more.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by vinceguidry on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:58AM (#17704869)
I feel like Apple really dropped the ball on that. Neither of the two reverse video modes remove blue. Flux works great on OSX and the people that make it really care about low-light accessibility, I'm typing this on my Dark Mode MacBook that I bought specifically to live at my bedside. Nothing else compares.

iPhone's accessibility page for color filters looks like a clown car show of useless features. If anyone's found the magic configuration that makes that shitshow usable please share it.

Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by graeme on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:01AM (#17706637)
What I've found is:

1. You can set "reduce white point" to reduce white light 2. You can set a color tint filter and move the hue far to the left. That's the red/orange area. Set intensity to max. 3. You can set the accessibility shortcut to turn these on. (This one is lacking - it slows app switching on non-X devices)

I don't know how to assess actual colour spectrum output, mind you. Does this seem effective?

I leave night shift and true tone on as well.

Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by vinceguidry on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @10:09AM (#17706728)
I think the problem I had with this one is that any time you're looking at something that would be white, instead it's super bright red. Without something that actually changes the displayed colors, you're stuck reducing the contrast so much everything's barely legible. But I'll give it another shot, thanks.
Re:Energy Saved, Sleep Lost: The Unintended Consequences of ... by graeme on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:07PM (#17708427)
Yeah I actuslly go for a dark orange. The red wasn’t really useable. Reduce whit epoint is actually my favourite part though.