This only applies to backlit e-readers, regular Kindles are fine
Everyone who ever used a laptop before going to sleep can probably confirm this.
just dim it down and don't use your mobile devices at max brightness like an idiot
sitting in a dark room with your monitor brightness up is horrible for your eyes. get a lamp and put it behind your monitor
[QUOTE=Killuah;46774588]Everyone who ever used a laptop before going to sleep can probably confirm this.[/QUOTE]
Yup, same applies when playing video games then going straight to bed. I find about 30 mins wind-down time with no TV, phone, laptop etc and a cup of herbal tea is a good way to get a nice kip.
I've never had a problem with something like this. I can usually turn off my monitor and fall asleep almost right away in bed even if I'm not very tired.
Nintendo axed the add-on for the greater good of humanity.
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Interesting. I find it easier for myself to go to bed with something playing on my laptop. Most of the time it's a match of hearthstone. I turn my laptop brightness all the way down and I use the graphics options to turn down the contrast and brightness even further. I usually nod off in a good 10 minutes or so, it helps distract me from other thoughts and lets my mind go numb while watching something mind numbing. Where without I would sit in bed thinking far to long to drift off to sleep in a good time frame (would be around 30 or longer).
Every night, I watch at least 45 minutes of youtube on my galaxy before I go to sleep (usually game grumps). I always feel tired and gross. I cannot fall asleep without watching youtube on my phone now. I get a weird feeling of alertness if I don't.
[QUOTE=.Lain;46774597]just dim it down and don't use your mobile devices at max brightness like an idiot
sitting in a dark room with your monitor brightness up is horrible for your eyes. get a lamp and put it behind your monitor[/QUOTE]
something like f.lux would probably help with this too
[QUOTE=The Duke;46778929]Nintendo axed the add-on for the greater good of humanity.
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This is still the first thing I think of when someone says "e-reader".
Honestly, I'm not surprised.
An awful lot of people use their phones / tablets on full brightness, including my mom.
I realized I actually never put my phone's brightness from the lowest setting, unless I'm in a bright room or outdoors.
[quote]Twelve people were locked in a sleep laboratory for two weeks.[/quote]
This sounds so sinister
To me the whole point of e-readers is to read on a screen that looks like paper and isn't eye-tiring.
Why would you use the backlight when you could turn on a lamp?
[quote]They spent five days reading from a paperback and five days from an iPad.[/quote]
gg iPad isn't an e-reader, nice title BBC, and nice study whoever did this
Some newer e-readers come with an orange-ish backlight, rather than hell blue. They seem to be easier on the eyes (akin to the f.lux-like application for windows, os x, linux, ..), would they have a positive impact on sleeping?
I highly recomend getting flux for anyone that uses their pc/whatever in the evening. I think it's also available for smartphones.
[url]https://justgetflux.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=Cam00;46782529]I highly recomend getting flux for anyone that uses their pc/whatever in the evening. I think it's also available for smartphones.
[url]https://justgetflux.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
I don't know about iPhones or any others but Android does have some apps you can get that are similar to f.lux. They tend to be pretty crappy unless you root your phone though. Without rooting the best they can do is affect brightness and put a color overlay over things. It kinda emulates f.lux but it also washes everything out pretty horribly too.
[QUOTE=Cam00;46782529]I highly recomend getting flux for anyone that uses their pc/whatever in the evening. I think it's also available for smartphones.
[url]https://justgetflux.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
It's also a good way to heat your house, as it keeps your graphics card at 100% power all the time.
[QUOTE=ultradude25;46782820]It's also a good way to heat your house, as it keeps your graphics card at 100% power all the time.[/QUOTE]
I have it working right now and my GPU is completely fine?
[QUOTE=ultradude25;46782820]It's also a good way to heat your house, as it keeps your graphics card at 100% power all the time.[/QUOTE]
What kind of graphics card do you have? Cause maybe if it's ten years old that might happen but it definitely shouldn't be happening even on a weak mobile card. With three monitors, the primary of which is 2560x1440 resolution, f.lux, Rainmeter updating constantly, and Firefox (which is hardware accelerated) in a maximized window on that primary monitor I never hit more than 10% gpu usage when it's in idle mode which is extremely slow (135Mhz) and that's only when scrolling through pages on Firefox at a steady pace.
yeah fl.ux or twilight work wonders. I always make sure twilight activates on my phone around 8:30, so if i have to use it is a warm orange tone so i dont fucking die going to sleep
[QUOTE=Alice3173;46783282]What kind of graphics card do you have? Cause maybe if it's ten years old that might happen but it definitely shouldn't be happening even on a weak mobile card. With three monitors, the primary of which is 2560x1440 resolution, f.lux, Rainmeter updating constantly, and Firefox (which is hardware accelerated) in a maximized window on that primary monitor I never hit more than 10% gpu usage when it's in idle mode which is extremely slow (135Mhz) and that's only when scrolling through pages on Firefox at a steady pace.[/QUOTE]
I'm not talking about usage, I'm talking about voltage and clock rate. (It actually only raises it to 48% power, but that's still pretty bad.)
Here's without flux running:
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Here's with flux running, and not doing any transitioning:
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As you can see, it already raised my card's temp by 9 degrees within a minute of running. It's at 46 right now, and the fan speed has gone up to 27%.
Do you have EVGA Precision running at all times and are your graphics drivers fully up to date? Because that shouldn't be happening and sounds like something is messing up somewhere. Especially since you're running a 760. My last card was a 650Ti BOOST and it had absolutely no issues like what you're experiencing.
Kindle Paperwhite and similar are fine as they are front lit not backlit.
The study this article was based on only included 12 people using iPads which, while they can be used for reading, aren't really strictly e-readers which tend to be e-ink based.
F.lux and Twilight are good but I doubt they completely resolve the threat to sleep.
[QUOTE=Alice3173;46783597]Do you have EVGA Precision running at all times and are your graphics drivers fully up to date? Because that shouldn't be happening and sounds like something is messing up somewhere. Especially since you're running a 760. My last card was a 650Ti BOOST and it had absolutely no issues like what you're experiencing.[/QUOTE]
I only run it to look at the stats, I don't actually bother with overclocking (this card is factory overclocked anyway), maybe there's a more suitable program for that.
I updated just the other week, but another driver just came out which I've updated to (347.09), and now it's not happening! It must've been a bug in the drivers over the last few months (when I last used flux). It also fixed the same problem with the latest version of Thunderbird where they just enabled hardware acceleration by default, as well as the terrible font rendering.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;46783490]flux is the worst it makes everything piss color and fucks with games
no thx[/QUOTE]
I thought the same, but you get used to it after like a week. It really does make a difference, if I disabled it at night I had to squint because my screen became so bright without it. As for games, you can disable it until sunrise in the system tray.
I started using f.lux on my laptop years ago after finding it on a random website. It really does make a good difference and my eyes are nowhere near as tired in the evening. Disabling f.lux when it's active in the evening is like night and day (lolzpun).
f.lux changed my life it's so good
[QUOTE=RichyZ;46783490]flux is the worst it makes everything piss color and fucks with games
no thx[/QUOTE]
a lot of games actually override flux now. the only one i've tried recently that didn't was Just Cause 2, and that's probably because of how it "fullscreens" itself. anything that sets itself to exclusive fullscreen should shut it off anyway.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;46783490]flux is the worst it makes everything piss color and fucks with games
no thx[/QUOTE]
There are plenty of games that override it, and even the ones that don't you can tell f.lux to stop working for an hour to get normal colors back.
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