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Display flicker caused this person to experience nausea. The flicker is from the use of PWM for driving the OLED display brightness. “Fixed” by switching to a d
by adamfeldman 5y ago
Display flicker caused this person to experience nausea. The flicker is from the use of PWM for driving the OLED display brightness. “Fixed” by switching to a device with an LCD display.
- perryizgr8 5y agoAnother fix is to use DC dimming.
- tinus_hn 5y agoLife must have been rough when fluorescent lighting was the norm.
- walugipnts 5y agoI had to quit one of my first jobs over it, the combination of cheap fluorescent lighting and no natural light caused me to have constant headaches.
- tonyarkles 5y agoI was pretty far down the road with a neurologist due to frequent migraines back in the day. Unrelated, I quit my job during that time. Suddenly, when using an LCD in a mostly naturally lit environment, instead of a CRT under fluorescent lights, my migraines completely vanished and haven’t come back once in a decade. Tada!
- ashneo76 5y agoI thought I was imagining things in my head.
- pen2l 5y agoYou’re luckier than me, I get headaches from natural light. If I’m outside on a sunny day without sunglasses I am pretty much done for the day. I have no clue why I am this way or if this is a common issue for folks out there. I should look into this more, and if anything can be done about it to reduce the nausea and headaches I get from being in the sunlight. One of the things I’m looking forward to seeing is if wearing contact lens is better than wearing glasses.
- jdeibele 5y agoThe standard thing was to turn off the fluorescent lighting back when everybody (tech support, sysops, programmers) was almost entirely looking at a screen. I got very used to calling "lights" before turning them on or there would be moans and groans.
- Arrath 5y agoNot exactly flicker, but I have one monitor that makes an audible whining noise when certain spreadsheets are open and the window is sized above a certain % of the screen space. It's maddening, but IT won't swap it out for me. I say certain spreadsheet, but really it's something about the formatting and contents of a single page in that sheet. Open in Excel, noise. Snipping tool snip of the screen, also noise. That page printed to PDF and opened, however, does not make noise.