What does HackerNews think of redshift?
Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night.
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I wish something like this existed for TVs. Since I got my eyesight procedure 10+ years ago, I soon noticed I was quite sensitive to lights that didn't affect me at all (maybe my vision was too bad to even notice, don't know). That extreme sensitivity faded off in the first six months, but I still get annoyed by some lights and the first thing I do with a new PC/Phone is setting up Redshift[1] or Twilight[2], and although I'm not a big TV consumer, the times I do watch it, I wonder if there's a market for this kind of features.
1: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
2: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid...
See also redshift, gammastep
https://github.com/jonls/redshift https://gitlab.com/chinstrap/gammastep
I agree. https://github.com/jonls/redshift has been a gamechanger to me. Hint for those with desktops: redshift may fail to detect your location so you can use -l lat:long to set it.
Interesting, thanks for sharing those articles. redshift lets you adjust brightness in addition or instead of color temperature (there is a Windows version but it is command line only, doesn't look like it supports macs and does not work with Wayland). Someone mentioned brightness a while back and I've been adjusting both since then but I'll try just adjusting brightness and see how it works. If nothing else, it is possible that warm color temperatures might end up being similar to the issue with flashlights where full spectrum lets you use a lower brightness than red light (of course, with flashlights there is also the issue that many "red" flashlights, even some that advertise as being night vision preserving, aren't in the right range to actually preserve night vision). It does seem like I could lower the brightness a bit more without the warmer color temperature.
Ubuntu got that too with the switch to Gnome. Before that, I used the open source https://github.com/jonls/redshift
This has been already done, I have been using redshift for years:
https://github.com/jonls/redshift
just a reminder that redshift exists: https://github.com/jonls/redshift/
no phone home/automatic updates (plus it's open source)
Unfortunately not. However, there is an open-source project Redshift[1] that I'm sure would be greatly welcoming of community support :). It also has a GTK client, etc.
I use https://github.com/jonls/redshift on Linux instead of f.lux. Installing with "sudo apt install redshift-gtk" should get desktop integration (I don't run Mint, but it works great on stock Ubuntu).
I wish redshift[0] used relative brightness.
Somebody else has already done it. https://github.com/jonls/redshift has been by go-to for a few years now. It's my suspicion that Jon has no intention of patenting the idea.
You can use [redshift](https://github.com/jonls/redshift) - it's like f.lux, except it respects your freedom.
So what does F.lux do differently to the FOSS solution Redshift?
I recommend Redshift instead, which is a free software alternative: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
Redshift source code: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
There is also Redshift [0][1], which I've found easier and simpler to use/install on Linux (but I've researched f.lux long time ago, so things may be different now). I remember that at first I couldn't stand that everything was kind of orangeish, but after a while I honestly didn't notice it anymore. From my personal experience, I can tell that it really made my eyes suffer less from long sessions of copmuter use.
[0] http://jonls.dk/redshift/ [1] https://github.com/jonls/redshift
I used F.lux for a long time, but now prefer Redshift[1][2] on OS X and Linux. (I think it has Windows support too, although I haven't tried it.) F.lux seemed to use a lot of CPU considering what it was doing.
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