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Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by sctb on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:42PM (#19078542)
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by gzu on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:46AM (#19075285)
I think all cars should have red interior lights as a matter of safety. It makes me angry whenever I rent a car and it has blue lights everywhere inside at night.

It may be a Sonata or something that has a blue light on all the time just above the rear view mirror! I had to cover it with tape.

Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by michaelper22 on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:39PM (#19078500)
Honda Accord too between 2012 and 2017 MYs (don't know about after the '18 redesign), except the Sport trim which has red.

Fortunately, on all trims you can freely switch the infotainment screen BG color between red, green, and blue.

Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by cicero on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:26AM (#19076556)
The dashboard lighting in my Mini Cooper turns red/orange when it gets dark outside, and I set the accent lighting color to orange. I think it helps a lot.
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by perilunar on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:39AM (#19076649)
An article about using red/orange for display lighting at night, written by ... "Amber Case" !
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by detaro on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:40AM (#19076662)
What's your point?
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by perilunar on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:41AM (#19076672)
nominative determinism perhaps? It is rather funny.
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by detaro on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:47AM (#19076710)
Hah, missed that completely!
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by evochimp on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:57AM (#19075334)
I use xgamma -bgamma .6 and xgamma -ggamma .8 in linux
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by nabla9 on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:31AM (#19075467)
I use `redshift -O 3600`
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by anthk on Monday February 04, 2019 @11:33AM (#19077665)
sct 3500, at night.

sct 5500, in the morning.

Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by ravedave5 on Monday February 04, 2019 @09:56AM (#19076787)
Last I heard there isn't strong scientific proof blue light is bad for you. I mean if you go outside at night the moon looks awfully close in color to a phone screen...
Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by scrumper on Monday February 04, 2019 @12:02PM (#19078016)
Affects circadian rhythms, damages retinas: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4734149/

Evening use of LED screens alters circadian rhythms and has a detrimental effect on cognitive performance: https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/japplphysiol.001...

You can find more. Wikipedia has 40 citations here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_blue_light_technolo...

Your counterpoint is irrelevant. Non-artificiality isn't a guarantee of benefit: if you go outside in the daytime and look at the sun you'll go blind.

Re:Why tech’s favorite color is making us all miserable (2018) by steanne on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:18PM (#19078965)