The hues and implementation of F.lux over the built-in options makes so that even with platform support I'm using F.lux instead.<p>Whatever I'm using on my Pixelbook is jarring. There is a subtlety to making it invisible when looking at the screen for a long time. Lot of the system implementations do weird and noticeable things to colors that I don't experience with F.lux. Sometimes I can't even tell if it's turned on anymore (although it's obvious to everyone who doesn't run F.lux).
I remember visiting a client in 2014 with my MacBook running F.lux. We were working late when I heard some friendly mocking from the other side of the room: "Hah, your Mac display has such a yellow tint!" (they were PC and Windows users).<p>Their jaws dropped when I explained that my display's color temperature was adjusting for the time of day/night and I bet the F.lux website got some extra visits that evening.
I used this for several years before switching to Redshift (simply because it's built into my distribution's packaging). The only benefit I've found of Redshift over f.lux is that the transition at dusk and dawn is gradual instead of changing abruptly.
Congratulations @IMAYousaf you are one of today’s lucky 10,000 — <a href="https://xkcd.com/1053/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/1053/</a><p>I personally dislike automatic screen light adjustment. I don’t know what it is but whenever it happens I immediately feel weird, like the world is moving around me for no reason, some people call this “Motion Sickness”. I also had problems with the built-in mechanism in macOS, which uses a light detector near the camera, because I live in a house with big windows near a very transited road with trucks passing by every few minutes. Every time a truck passes the amount of light passing through the windows reduces forcing macOS to readjust the amount of light in the screen and then readjusting again when the truck is out of sight.<p>I am sure you will feel sick too if you see that happening ±144 times a day.
I've been using f.lux for years and definitely think it helps considerably (certainly when opening my laptop at night, I don't get completely blinded). I've recently been wondering if blue light glasses are similarly effective--anyone have data (or anecdata) about their effectiveness?
I used to use Flux, but everytime it dimmed, I'd override it... after a while, I just turned it off because I used the bright screen to help keep me awake. It is a cool idea I'd like to use on my kids screens.
I prefer sct as it's much more lightweight although it won't change automatically according to time. It's easy to map shift as keyboard shortcuts in i3/sway, etc..
I use F.lux to minimize blue light at all times, not just at night. You get used to it, and blue light is said to be harmful for long term vision as well as disruptive of sleep.<p>Sometimes I disabled F.lux for an hour if I want to watch a video or do work that is color sensitive.
There is this weird phenomenon on HN where every time someone posts about flux, it's guaranteed to get to the top, and there will soon be 100 single-threaded comments of people saying how they use it and what a godsend it is. Bikeshedding to the next dimension.