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Posted by Hugh
Feb 2, 2018 at 03:10 PM
So somebody suggested instead “the right pair of super-chromatic sunglasses”...
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 2, 2018 at 03:20 PM
Recent versions of macOS include Night Shift, which is very similar to fLux. I used fLux for years before Night Shift came along, and agree with Andy that the effect is very useful.
The macOS accessibility settings can invert the monitor’s display color. For many apps, this is more than adequate especially if they app does not natively support a dark mode.
Andy Brice wrote:
I use this software to turn my monitor a pinkish shade after the sun
>goes down.
>https://justgetflux.com/
>I think it helps with sleep (although I don’t have any data to back that
>up). It works on Windows and Mac and is free.
>
>—
>
>Andy Brice
>http://www.hyperplan.com
Posted by washere
Feb 2, 2018 at 06:13 PM
Since Jobs, Apple is philosophically and religiously fanatical about Steve’s White Zen conversion, dating back to the seventies.
Turning down brightness by night time dimmers, or putting on shades which nonetheless sounds very cool to me, is not exactly a dark or better yet a good black theme either.
Finally, simple hard edged inverting is also the usual lame suggestion not to mention tasteless as the age old Microsoft High-Contrast theme, mainly for the hard of seeing, has always scared anyone with any sense of class. Instead of just a negative filter, a good black/dark theme takes a bit of work to get the selected color palette, shades, hues & complimentary placement in the color-wheel right. Might be beyond some though.
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 2, 2018 at 07:25 PM
Don’t believe anyone said fLus or Night Shift were dark mode alternatives.
washere wrote:
>Turning down brightness by night time dimmers, or putting on shades
>which nonetheless sounds very cool to me, is not exactly a dark or
>better yet a good black theme either.
I don’t know if my suggestion was lame—since everyone’s vision is unique to them—it was merely something to consider.
>Finally, simple hard edged inverting is also the usual lame suggestion
>not to mention tasteless as the age old Microsoft High-Contrast theme,
>mainly for the hard of seeing, has always scared anyone with any sense
>of class. Instead of just a negative filter, a good black/dark theme
>takes a bit of work to get the selected color palette, shades, hues &
>complimentary placement in the color-wheel right. Might be beyond some
>though.
Thanks for the instruction. I’ll take it to heart.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 2, 2018 at 09:11 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>I used fLux for years before Night Shift came along, and agree with Andy that the effect is very useful.
Indeed; these days I’m using a borrowed laptop where it’s not installed and the effect was very tiring. So I used this opportunity to try out this recent purchase: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0721VVMRG I found them quite satisfactory. Apparently the ‘tiring’ colour is a shade of blue.