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I’ll agree with the siblings that you’ve made more claims than provided footnotes, but I will also clarify that I left something out (I figured it was assumed)

I’ll agree with the siblings that you’ve made more claims than provided footnotes, but I will also clarify that I left something out (I figured it was assumed) in the dialog I described. My optometrist did in fact put having a current prescription as the #1 thing. I’m a lazy guy in some ways but I value what eyesight I’ve got so I go every year on the dot to get my prescription measured by competent professionals. I asked: “(Given that we have the correct prescription and that my screen usage is unfortunately not likely to go down) what can I do now?” Cranking up the font size and paying for a solid monitor is obviously mitigation at best: the healthy thing for a guy like me would be to run around and throw spears at moving animals, not live in a glass box staring at a glass panel. But circumstances being what they are? I can pull a longer stretch more often on the better display without getting a headache than I could before. It’s anecdotal, N=1, but the only subject is me and I’m not selling anything.

goldenkey 4y ago
It's not bad advice to make font sizes larger. You should also be using something like F.lux or night mode all the time. Yellow light is much less straining on the eyes than white or blue light. Resolution really doesn't matter much when it comes to strain. I have a 2011 2560x1440 27" monitor that I've always used large font on. What's important is being able to see without straining and a larger UI helps. Having higher resolutions is nice but largely unecessary. Blur is not going to happen from making things larger if you do it right. Doing it right means that you shouldn't be changing the actual output resolution of your OS, but rather the interface size itself. On OSX you'll want to use the HiDPI (Retina) resolution options. Enabled through this script: https://github.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi https://github.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi On Windows you can just set the magnification/font size through the settings panel. This applies to any resolution display -- use the full physical resolution!! Frame rates are actually more of a factor. 120hz+ is going to cut down on strain. Avoiding PWM [1] on phones, tablets, laptops, and monitors will also help. But really, the gold standard is for you to wear a different set of spectacles when you do your computer work. You shouldn't need the power of your full prescription to do close up work. It's destroying your eyes. [1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Why-Pulse-Width-Modulation-PWM-is-such-a-headache.270240.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Why-Pulse-Width-Modulation-PWM...

goldenkey 4y ago

It's not bad advice to make font sizes larger. You should also be using something like F.lux or night mode all the time. Yellow light is much less straining on the eyes than white or blue light. Resolution really doesn't matter much when it comes to strain. I have a 2011 2560x1440 27" monitor that I've always used large font on. What's important is being able to see without straining and a larger UI helps. Having higher resolutions is nice but largely unecessary. Blur is not going to happen from making things larger if you do it right. Doing it right means that you shouldn't be changing the actual output resolution of your OS, but rather the interface size itself. On OSX you'll want to use the HiDPI (Retina) resolution options. Enabled through this script: https://github.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi https://github.com/xzhih/one-key-hidpi On Windows you can just set the magnification/font size through the settings panel. This applies to any resolution display -- use the full physical resolution!! Frame rates are actually more of a factor. 120hz+ is going to cut down on strain. Avoiding PWM [1] on phones, tablets, laptops, and monitors will also help. But really, the gold standard is for you to wear a different set of spectacles when you do your computer work. You shouldn't need the power of your full prescription to do close up work. It's destroying your eyes. [1] https://www.notebookcheck.net/Why-Pulse-Width-Modulation-PWM-is-such-a-headache.270240.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Why-Pulse-Width-Modulation-PWM...