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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/well/health-effects-blue-light-screen-use.html

From the post: Experts have long warned about the dangers of blue light before bed. When exposed via smartphones, TVs, laptops and other devices, our brains suppress the production of the hormone melatonin, which normally makes you feel drowsy. As a result, you feel more alert, making it harder to fall — and stay — asleep. But the link between blue light and sleep is murkier than we thought, said Lauren E. Hartstein, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona. She and other researchers have been taking a closer look at the evidence, which suggests that blue light alone may not be causing poor sleep. And in some cases, screen use could even help you drift off.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/well/health-effects-blue-light-screen-use.html From the post: Experts have long warned about the dangers of blue light before bed. When exposed via smartphones, TVs, laptops and other devices, our brains suppress the production of the hormone melatonin, which normally makes you feel drowsy. As a result, you feel more alert, making it harder to fall — and stay — asleep. But the link between blue light and sleep is murkier than we thought, said Lauren E. Hartstein, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona. She and other researchers have been taking a closer look at the evidence, which suggests that blue light alone may not be causing poor sleep. And in some cases, screen use could even help you drift off.

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I wear glasses because my eyes suck. I always get the anti-blue coating. I have used tools like f.Lux (win/lin/etc) to auto-orange-shift your screens light temp depending on time of day.

I make sure most lights around the house are "warm" but we only have them on when needed anyway because why would you have a shit load of lights on all of the time?

I too have told people to do this with all of their screens and even after a day of using it if they turn it off for one reason or another they are instantly like a vampire and turn it right back on.

I don't sleep well and never have. I have a kindle but its old as hell, has no backlight, is a e-paper display and I have a small light (orange shifted) for my illumination.

Yeah, the article is trying to down-play blue light but it makes points that the study did not due to what they were testing with at the time. Either way, yeah, blue light is bad for your eyes and your sleep, other factors obviously apply as well.

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For the old guys. Blue dot conversions. Why can you see the tiny blue don’t in the tail light eons away, Ana not the read.

Wave length. Blue travels farther, by orders of magnitude. Fucking stop lights should have been blue, brake lights too (I digress).

That long wave length penetrates the air so much farther. I eyes can see it better. Now think of that blue wavelength as a fucking laser you stare at all day long. Yeah you wouldn’t do that.

But kids do. Meaning even people my age.

I also agree, entire house is 2700k light. Nothing looks like a Walmart parking light around me. The sun set is yellow to orange for a reason. It tells the brain to start shutting down, turns on the melatonin. Sunrise is the exact opposite, more blue light tells the brain to wake the fuck up, go find food, kill meat, make babies, create civilization.

Obligatory light is White because it works.

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Well, Making red light is easier to make than blue light (LED's).

Red light also doesn't fuck your night vision so having a fuck load of blue light at night would really fuck up your night vision and that would suck balls.

Fun random thing. One of the things that is brought up on "how you can tell the universe is moving AWAY from you" is because its all red-shifted, not blue shifted. If something is moving toward you, it will be blue-shifted, if its moving away, it will be red-shifted.

Also, Yep, I chuckled at the joke at the end.

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I’m gonna have to lookup red shift and blue shift never heard that.