Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
Short answer is "They don't go that dim." I don't know if there's a technical limitation or it's just not done, but the "1%" frontlight (most e-ink displays are frontlights, LCDs are just awful for e
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Lanterns (incandescent kerosene), or incandescent lights. The Kobo Clara HD is rather easier to read in low light than my aging Kobo Aura. It also has warm glow, but I'm not sure it matters, and the better reflectance on the display i
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've not looked into it that much (yet). Short answer, from my view, is that if we've screwed up lighting enough that we need supplements, the easier option is to fix lighting.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Again, I appreciate the feedback. It's a post I really struggled with the details of, and I've been putting off actually publishing it in some form or another for months now. The problem is... yeah. This stuff, as I see it, is v
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It helps, certainly. At least with my experience (post author), it doesn't actually fix the problem. There are a variety of e-ink HDMI displays out there, though. They're simply "very, very expensive."
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It looks at the emitted energy from the screen. The ebook emits directly, a foot from your face. The paper book is reflected energy, at a rather higher reflectance and a rather lower energy. It's amazing how dim a light you can read a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I would indeed appreciate you reading the whole thing... I did write it to be read, and while it's long, I promise I don't blather on pointlessly. At least by my standards. But I agree with you. I think we absolutely can make mu
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Post author) The short answer is that I'm quite familiar with those, but I felt the post I'd made was getting alarmingly long already, and I did decide to try and reduce some of the "10k word epics" I'm prone to wr
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by Syonyk 4y ago
They are. Any sort of "open flame burner" is likely to emit an awful lot of PM 2.5. However, most of the lanterns (think your standard "hurricane lantern" or "cold blast lantern") are quite clean burning. I&#
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Post author) Yes, there's an angle component that's a bit concerning as well. It seems that our eyes mostly respond to the blues "above the horizon" - which makes sense given how our world works. Blue on the ground is
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Post author here, huh, it hit HN...) This is not consistent with the studies I've read. It's a "total lumineous flux in the 460-490nm range" concern. The deep reds, up past 600nm, don't seem to have any impact on
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I know they exist, and the good ones that specifically work on reducing the blue are something like $30/ea. I'm unclear as to how they dim - some LEDs just turn into this dim, grey, nasty light, though. Meanwhile, dimmed incandes
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by Syonyk 4y ago
So is asbestos. It's wonderfully useful in a huge range of ways. Just rather violently human toxic when broken down. Much like plastics.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm aware and have been doing so. No idea why you're being (apparently) downvoted, what you're saying is factually correct, to include the politicians involved. I'm quite upset that we've really ignored the researc
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yeah... plastics are another one that's not going to be looked on fondly by future generations. Nasty bioactive stuff that's small enough to get everywhere and get into everything. And we literally make so much of it so it c
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by Syonyk 4y ago
White LED light bulbs. They're cheap (at least, subsidized), they're long lasting (maybe), they're energy efficient (certainly), and they emit a huge amount of blue, squarely in the wavelengths that the human eye uses to dete
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Or, I could just build a filtered air inlet for my office that slightly overpressures it. I've considered it, I just haven't done it. I don't see any benefit of going with compressed air tanks here.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Don't drive. Fly if you want to get a sense of the problem. We have somewhere in the range of 360 million acres of forest in the western United States, counting Alaska [0]. Wildfires in the US burn about 7 million acres a year [1]. &g
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Researchers say that laws intended to combat air pollution don’t address increasingly important sources, such as wildfires and dust. Yes, because wildfires are so good at obeying laws passed to regulate them... We talk about "fi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It is. I have two connections - one "standard rural WISP" sort of thing, 25/3 on paper, what it delivers varies wildly. And then Starlink. My network is set up so I can easily switch systems between the two. Starlink is fa
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> This sounds like a red flag…I hope the author isn’t starting to burn out or in a utterly shitty environment where looking at the screen is really that much better. Huh? I just read it as, "Do as much as you possibly can away fr
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've been using black wallpapers on laptops for... man, has to be almost 20 years now. I used to run multimedia for a church group on a Mac with Keynote, and all our song lyrics and everything else started and ended with a fade from b
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yes, and if you're trying to save every penny, that's reasonable. Brother doesn't prevent you from doing this, you just have to look up the toner counter reset process, which is trivially found online. It's exceedingly
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by Syonyk 4y ago
No. They just run X pages and assume the cartridge is empty. You can reset it with some faintly annoying incantations, and I'd suggest doing so until you notice actual print quality issues. Especially on black. The logic is... reason
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Title slightly edited because I think the focus on abortion specifically is missing the bigger point - that police have warrant-free access to pretty much "whatever location data they want," via the normal back channels of third p
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Sneaky ways cops could access data to widely [track anyone] in the US(arstechnica.com)
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by Syonyk 4y ago
For now, certainly. We'll see what it looks like long term. Of course, we've let China dominate the production of wind and solar equipment... which won't come back to bite us as a trade war continues heating up. Of course,
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by Syonyk 4y ago
In other words, you've not talked to many (any?) Trump supporters, and are just speculating about what evilly evil things they might evilly support for their own evil ends. Or something of the sort. The conservative end of the spectru
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That's not how history typically works. The group that destroys the place is not regarded as heroes, they're regarded as a warning of things to be avoided. If any of those things happen, there will be very strong taboos against a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I expect their reactions to basically all of our modern society to be "disgust." Our air, our water, our environment, our attention ecosystems. All quite human-toxic.

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