* power button is some gimmick optico fingerprint reading crap that is somehow less user-friendly than a light switch for 10 cents
* turning the monitor back on will take 3-15 seconds, and due to above you may end up waiting 20 seconds to discover you didn't activate the button properly, depending on the monitor
by all means, I don't intend to defend using a web browser to set the color of pixels
I think you got just a very bad monitor, if it doesn't have a green / amber switch. Simply go and buy a better one. Btw. Blog is completely missing the lovely slow phosphor trailing effect, it could be added with js. I was great that you were able to read text from monitor about 5 seconds after powering it off. - After quick Googling, I couldn't find pre-existing javascript to do it. It would be nice to make one.
> as it will be undoubtedly obvious whether a monitor is in-fact powered or not by just looking at it.
Will it? Is the screen dark because it's off (janitor bumped it at night), because my laptop didn't wake up when I docked it, or because I forgot to plug the cable back in after fooling with an SBC on that monitor yesterday?
The power light makes the state of the monitor obvious, and so does an image displaying on it. The light's useful for the edge cases when there isn't an image being displayed.
I don't really like these programs. I think it's better to drop monitor brightness than adjust the color temperature. Better for your eyes and you can see the colors better.
My monitor ($750 few years ago) has only 3 levels of brightness effectively, because to change it you have to go through a hierarchical menu of around 10 clicks of different buttons, and then wait for a stupid bar to go to the desired value. I had to create 3 presets to at least switch day/evening/night modes with only 3-4 clicks.
The buttons do work. But, some monitors are still too bright at night even with that brightness set to minimum, and hardware monitor controls set to minimum too.
Redshift manages to decrease brightness even further.
Wow, just today I learned I can control my monitor via software and it worked. All this time I've just dealt with the brightness since I game on it and use dark themes to mitigate the white flashing. Besides that it takes a while to adjust and my monitor's on a flimsy mount and so I hate to have to move touch it. I'm going to hotkey it and have a one-button solution now. Thanks to your comment and to OP's.
I bought a monitor with a "Low Blue Light" button (it's a "BENQ" brand). I didn't buy it because of that feature and had never even heard of it before.
My first reaction was thinking it was kind of ugly so initially I didn't leave it on but after a month or so I noticed my eyes were getting strained so I tried it.
It is ugly, but it makes a big difference. Now, when I turn off the Low Blue Light mode I can instantly feel the strain on my eyes. The picture is gorgeous but it's too bright and intense for work. Since I use several monitors I manually adjusted the others to reduce the blue.
The biggest downside is selecting colors for design work. The Low Blue Light screws that big time, but after comparing how different colors look on different monitors I decided not to worry about that too much because I have no control over that at all.
There is no way that you can't turn it off, I find it highly doubtful that they do this in hardware with some ASIC that reads the display buffer in the LCD and averages the color of the screen from there.
It's more than likely uses the screen brightness API that was introduced with Windows 8 which talks to things like colorimeters and light sensors.
I bought a monitor a couple years ago that has a "Low Blue Light" feature you can turn on/off.
At first I didn't like it. It kind of dulls the screen down and makes things look greener. But after using it for a couple months, along with a couple other monitors on my desk, my eyes were getting tired so I turned the feature on and used it for a few days to see if I could get used to it.
When I switched it back off afterwards I was pretty shocked at how much more my eyes were instantly stressed. I turned it back on and have left it on since. I also turned the blue down on my other two monitors. And I can feel the difference when I set them back to their defaults too.
I don't think I'd like it for TV, though I might get used to it as well, but for coding and surfing the web it works for me.
The main problem is that the worst consequence of not following this rule is still perfectly usable, while the worst consequence of overdoing it is the
font-weight: 300, color: #555
nightmare that we see everywhere on the modern web.
So lets just not.
Also, a backlight-based screen is not the same thing as a newspaper, where you can easily increase contrast by improving your light source almost infinitely. I can always decrease my screen brightness quite a bit, but there is an upper limit of increasing it.
reply