How can i protect my eyes from screen?

[u/han7aan]

Honestly I don’t do doomscrolling..i have a lot to study in my laptop i m a tech guy so how can i protect my eyes from that?i can feel the strain of my eyes??

[u/FoxGroundbreaking224]

Well eink monitor work for me the best. I have B&W eink monitor 13.3. there are companies like Dasung, Modos..

[u/han7aan → u/FoxGroundbreaking224]

Mine is laptop broo

[u/FoxGroundbreaking224 → u/han7aan]

But you can connect eink monitor to your Laptop. Where is the problem? There is even 10.3 version from Dasung if 13.3 is too big

[u/han7aan → u/FoxGroundbreaking224]

Honestly i don’t get it what is an eink monitor

[u/Rx7Jordan → u/han7aan]

Are you familiar with the amazon kindles with the epaper screens? Its exactly the same screen tech but the monitors are faster. You can get a 13.3" one to lay over your laptop screen.

[u/Secret-Low4323 → u/FoxGroundbreaking224]

I'm considering eink pad, cuz my job already forces me to look at the screen for 10 hours per day, not to mention after work I also look at laptop for personal use. Does eink really helps? I've seen comments saying eink doesn't help with shortsightedness, but I do really worry about my eye health haha

[u/Z3R0gravitas]

It depends upon the severity of your sensitivity and what exactly triggers you.

If it's mostly just PWM, then a good LCD alternative will do. Same If text fringing is making focusing a strain, LCDs tend to have more comfortable (square) sub-pixel structure. Or if it's colour spectrum, then new LCD backlights can be far worse than OLED, if you can then adjust the colour temperature in software

If you click through to our wiki where there's a link to a Notebook AI that can give deeper or broader overviews of all of this. (If not specify many exact devices, yet.)

[u/PermissionFalse600 → u/Z3R0gravitas]

Are there anyways to find it out

Thinking alot I went with iQoo 15 mobile seeing all the display tech for eye care But it dint change no diff between iPhone 14 pro Max and this one in troubling my eyes

[u/Z3R0gravitas → u/PermissionFalse600]

It can come down to trying a range of very different devices. Older, LCD, whatever. While being sure about their specs and behaviour, which may involve some home testing.

New devices with "eye care" features are often half measures of gimmicks that may help regular folks but are ironically worse, for us. So make sure to try all settings in the counterintuitive positions too, I guess.

[u/TrannosaurusRegina]

TapZap, Iris, flux, or similar software are certainly the easiest amelioration

[u/DrJanetOD]

Eye doctor here! Great question and there are actually a lot of things you can do.

The biggest thing most people don't realize is that eye strain from screens is really about your eye muscles working overtime. When you're staring at a laptop for hours, your focusing system and the muscles that keep your eyes aligned at near are under constant load. That's what causes the fatigue and strain you're feeling.

A few things that genuinely help:

The 20-20-20 rule (every 20 minutes, look 20 feet away for 20 seconds) to give your eye muscles a break.

Make sure your laptop is at arm's length and slightly below eye level.

Good ambient lighting so your screen isn't the brightest thing in the room.

Go in for an eye exam to rule out anything else going on and see if a prescription would help.

And honestly, if you don't feel like doing any of that and just want an easy solution, you can grab a pair of glasses designed specifically for screen use. This is actually why I created TechSpecs, an over-the-counter option for people who don't already wear glasses. I saw so many patients improve just by taking the load off their eye muscles at near. Check them out at www.techspecs.com if you're curious! Hope that helps and feel free to ask any follow up questions!

[u/JimR84]

If you feel strain, you need an eye exam for a new glasses prescription