You will come to love f.lux, and you will not notice it after a few days. It may cause people to ask you why your monitor has that orange hue though.

..and the simple answer is.. "because my eyesight yearns it" after all these years looking too bright monitor

Edit2: there is still viewing angle. I feel that monitor is a bit too tall.. I read that tilt a bit and your eyes will see everytext same if you read text from top to bottom.

Edit3: I don't even remember what gog was before grey.. Wasn't this pretty grey always.. It's pretty fucking grey. =P

Nothing that exciting, I just quickly make a picture with dark and light shades or grab a ready-made one from the web. This page was my first suitable hit with google that has a picture. EDIT: it also goes a bit deeper into things, you might find it a good read.

Photography is one of my hobbies so my monitor has to be correct. Even if with no interest in photography, I don't see why someone wouldn't want their monitor to display as accurate as possible.

For starters, "dynamic contrast" should always be turned off. I also suggest reading about monitor calibration:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

You can find a doctor that will back any sort of claim that you want. The doctors tend to err on the side of caution in terms of what they recommend people avoid and when they're writing out orders for the insurance companies.

Do you seriously think that they know that this is the case? Computers only became common within the last 20 years, and macular degeneration is something that happens over many decades.

Are you serious? The sun is many orders of magnitude more bright than a monitor is. People don't stare at them because you often times get permanent blindness withing minutes like that. Even when you don't it tends to hurt people's eyes.

Like I said, this is nothing but fear mongering. I've got incredibly sensitive eyes. I literally can't go outside most of the time without sunglasses on and looking up at the sky at all causes my eyes to burn. Being next to a halogen lamp is literally more painful than having my eyeballs scooped out with a spoon.

The fact that you're suggesting that the monitors are even remotely the same level of brightness is astonishing.

BTW, my eyes are showing absolutely no signs of degeneration. My vision is the same as it was 20 years ago with no evidence of damage. That remains the norm for most people. Once you hit a point in your early 20s your eyes don't normally degenerate much until you get old.
Normally, you want the monitor to be as accurate as possible, but closer to bed time it's often time useful to change the color as the body interprets blue light as time to be awake.

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Agreed. F.lux is amazing. It takes a night of two to get used to, but you do get used to it.

F.lux works by removing blue tones from your screen. That causes the "brown" tones that some posters describe. Your screen will look a bit off (to others, anyway; the tones will look normal to you), but there are a lot of benefits. Blue tones are responsible for a lot of the brightness of your screen, so cutting down on the blue tones results in less glare and eye strain. This change is especially useful at night when brightness hurts the eyes more (though I use f.lux on a low setting to cancel a bit of screen brightness even during the day).

Another great benefit to reducing screen brightness/ blue tones is improved sleep. Blue tones and brightness are indicators to the body and brain that it's daytime (think the sun in the sky) and thus time to be alert and awake. That's a big reason why using electronics before bed has been shown to keep people awake. Remove a good chunk of that blueness, however, and it is much easier to fall asleep if you're using electronics close to bedtime (though I think that games are often stimulating enough that using f.lux with exciting games doesn't necessarily make it much easier to fall asleep).

The skewing of tones can be annoying for pictures, movies, and games, but f.lux can be disabled or set on movie mode to remove some of the blue tones from movies without removing so much that the movies' color looks wrong. As far as games go, I often have to decrease my usual f.lux settings for particularly dark games. It's generally impossible to find all of the necessary inventory items in adventure games set in haunted houses, for instance.

My main goal in life is to sleep like a tired baby. =P

Edit: I wish I asked sooner.. I can almost feel my eyes being more relaxed.