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On a note related to eye strain, but unrelated to blue light: the best solution I've found for eye strain is to wear reading glasses (or if you are near-sighted, glasses with an additional diopter or two) even if you don't need them. With the correct SPH value, the screen will be at optical infinity and your eyes will be fully relaxed.

Another pro-tip unrelated to the article: if you like to read at night in bed but find LCDs/OLEDs bothersome, I recommend trying red-on-black text. Particularly nice for glasses wearers who are bothered by chromatic aberration.

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On the subject of this article: does anyone have a translation of the study itself? While I'm not at all surprised that there is no retinal damage, I'm very surprised that they found sleep was unaffected. Blue light does more strongly activate ipGRCs, after all.[0] And that clearly suppresses melatonin.

I'd also like to know if by blue-light blocking lenses the article means the ones that block "high-frequency blue" light (Zenni brands these as "Blokz Blue Blockers") which are probably useless because the violet/UV light they block aren't actually produced by most displays, or if they mean the orange-tinted glasses that obviously cut into blue light.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically_photosensitive_r...

parent jml7c5 5 years ago

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