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I still haven't seen any evidence to suggest LCDs perform in a comparable manner to the light source in all those studies they cite. Where are the studies test
by Laaw 11y ago
I still haven't seen any evidence to suggest LCDs perform in a comparable manner to the light source in all those studies they cite.
Where are the studies testing F.lux directly? This is ripe for all of the best biases to take over, which makes me immensely skeptical.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoWhat are you objecting to specifically? I would think that, if your brain responds to light of a particular color or intensity, it's not going to care that the light source is an LCD.
- Laaw 11y agoI am going to need more than "I would think that" if I'm going to believe this, and considering how backlight leakage allows extra white light to emit from your screen, I'd consider that an important enough extra variable that needs to be accounted for before we just start equating "pure" blue lights to the complex lightwaves that come out of an LCD monitor. Besides, the framing of your question is wrong. I don't even need to come up with a specific reason, the burden of proof lies on the makers of F.lux to demonstrate that their specific product does what it says, and simply citing inequivalent studies isn't enough.
- thecatspaw 11y agohow is the framing of the question wrong? You are criticizing a product, so the burden lies with you to proof what is wrong with it.
- Laaw 11y agoYou're entirely incorrect. They're the one making an assertion, I'm simply asking them to back it up, not "criticizing" it. Your comment is pretty terrible, from a quality standpoint, not something I'd expect from HN.
- eertami 11y ago>I don't even need to come up with a specific reason, the burden of proof lies on the makers of F.lux to demonstrate that their specific product does what it says Man who the fuck cares. Millions of people use f.lux every day - personally, it's the first thing I install on any PC or Laptop I know I'll be using for a while. It doesn't matter whether you have proof one way or the other. Use it, or don't - honestly nobody gives a shit.
- Laaw 11y agoI give a shit, because if I'm going to use it, I want to know if it's going to do anything. Why suffer through the filtering it does to my monitor if it doesn't matter?
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoI don't understand. What's a "complex lightwave"? Light is light. I agree that it would be good to see more and more specific studies on this, but this focus on LCDs is a weird line of attack.
- Laaw 11y agoLight is light except when you have multiple sources of light, some white and some blue, due to backlight leakage that happens to varying degrees in every LCD screen. Do you know how much white light would negate the blue light in your brain, negating the effects? I don't.