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[theweaselking]

Flux: An application to make your computer screen colours and brightness vary by time of day, to avoid confusing your brain and causing light-induced mammal-brain-twisty insomnia.

I have not used it and I don't need it, but I am told by commodorified that it has greatly helped her. And it's a COOL CONCEPT.

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[cacahuate.livejournal.com]

I used it for a while and it did nothing for me except make my friends and family exclaim, “Why is your screen ORANGE!?”

[winterlime.livejournal.com]

I used it and am still using it. You get over the screen orangeyness after a while, especially with the slow fade. And if you disable it temporarily at night, you start seeing just how bright and glarey the "normal" day setting is.

[ardys-the-ghoul.livejournal.com]

It does sound pretty cool. I suffer from occasional insomnia, but I'm not sure if it would help me, because strangely enough, I seem to sleep better when it's light out. (Doctors also seem to have trouble finding my blood pressure--I am a vampire, evidently.)

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I do as well, having been a shiftworker for years, but it still does help; I conclude that the trick is for your brain not to think it's June 21 all the time, not so much which part of the day you do your sleeping.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

I also don't know if it's "helped" me particularly, but I do like the effect.

[iponly.livejournal.com]

It helped me when I started using it, and these days, I don't know. But these days, I have more reason to cling to my computer, so it may just be that countering the effect. The changeover will lag the hell out of any game you're playing at the time, and the color shift does need to be disabled if you're trying to do any kind of work with color.

[moiread]

Oh god, it wants to tint my display based on time of day. HISS.

BURN IT. BURN IT NOW.

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[gygaxis.livejournal.com]

Signed. Can't be fucking with my color calibrations. That is something I'd lose sleep over.

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I do a fair bit of Photoshop, etc. It has a handy "disable for one hour" option in the toolbar.

For me, it's got some downsides but none of them outweigh the fact that I was losing time and accuracy on editing jobs due to miserably strained eyes and now I'm not.

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Where's the bloody toolbar?! I just installed it and now I can't close the bloody thing or find a toolbar to adjust it. >.<

[commodorified.livejournal.com]

I know you're sorted, but for anyone else who comes this way, on a Mac it's a drop down from an icon that appears on the *upper* right and perserveres.

[hel]

Redshift (same purpose, diff app) has a handy system tray icon with a "toggle" option that lets you disable the tinting when needed.

[atothek.livejournal.com]

Love this! Thanks for posting.

[lightinchains.livejournal.com]

I'm using flux - I can't say whether it's helped me sleep or not (although lately I've been waking 30 minutes before my alarm), as I didn't seem to have a problem before.

[thornae.livejournal.com]

FOSS alternative (http://jonls.dk/redshift/), for those who might care.

Personally, I use the GUI enhanced fork of same (http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/cog67/fork_of_redshift_thats_more_guicentric/).

[hel]

I use redshift, which is the same thing but on linux. It's great.

[tysolna]

No more squinting, hooray. Thank you for posting this.