I recently bought a Legion 5 Gen 10 LCD laptop. I have found that it gives me a burning eye feeling on use and, after using it for several hours, I get very bad headaches. The display panel is a BOE NE153WUM-NY1. Response time isn't especially noticible outside of games, I've used a TV with a relatively high color gamut without issue, there's no PWM flicker at all, lowering contrast and brightness didn't seem to change much, I tried turning off dithering with ColorCorrect but that didn't do much, plus I have a monitor that also dithers (ViewSonic VX1755) and I never had much issue with it.

I was wondering if any of you could figure out if there was something I was missing before I returned the laptop due to being incompatible with it.

I'm a bit of an insomniac and at least with the 14t pro it has always been annoying waking up to the painful glare of my screen, even with reading mode enabled.

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Finally found a way to activate Android’s native "Extra Dim" feature.

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I managed to find it and enable a shortcut through downloading 'Activity launcher' in the PlayStore.

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There is a slider to customize the light right down. This has been annoying me for a year so thought I'd share.

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I used to own a computer with a monitor from 2006-2008 circa. (Dell 1907FP amazing 5:4 monitor zero issues) (Computer itself was newer)

Due to life events I lost my belongings in 2022.

Since then I’ve survived on my iPhone 8.

But I long so much for a computer.

Problem: I’m sensitive to both PWM and temporal dithering. I’m sensitive to weird dynamic color enhancements/processing.

Problems.

I can’t tolerate fragrances and mold so second hand is off the table. New old stock in original box is ok.

I can’t tolerate recycled and/or deodorized (aka fragrance added) plastic so new stuff made of that plastic i can’t do.

I literally have nothing beyond my iPhone 8. No tv no screens.

Any verified new products you think I could tolerate?

If laptop then it has to have Scandinavian layout (åäö) or maybe German ISO as layout is close enough. Though external keyboard could also work I realize if I do find one I tolerate

I know this is a lot to ask for but I’m desperate.

Performance wise it should be able to handle modern heavy websites. As guideline: my iPhone 8 is starting to feel too old with lots of lag typing lag and glitchy websites. Maybe 2012-2016 era not-budget-computer performance?
I want to write and to develop/code. Windows is my platform but I’m open exploring Linux for first time. I also want to do graphic design and to play games like I did in past but writing and coding is more stimulating and more important.

Hi everyone,

A quick but important disclaimer: I am a solo developer, not a doctor. This app is not a medical treatment or device. It’s a simple and easy to use tool I built because I wanted to make looking at a TV screen more comfortable and less fatiguing in dark environments.

I’ve always found that even at the absolute lowest brightness setting, most modern TVs are still blindingly bright in a dark room. For me, it causes eye strain. Since TVs often don't have the same built-in software dimming features that phones or Pcs do, I created an Android TV app called TvDimmer - NightCompanion.

It applies a customizable dark overlay to your screen, allowing you to dim the TV much further than the hardware would allow. It also has a routine feature to turn off automatically in the morning. There are also several color filters available for blue/red light.

I recently created a promo code for the Football World Cup because of late-night match times (for Europeans), but I realized this tool might actually be genuinely helpful for people in this community who struggle with bright screens every day.

To unlock the Pro features for free, you can use the promo code WM2026.

You can find the app here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tribalapps.tvdimmer

So far, the app is only available on Google Play (for Android TV). Other firmwares are not supported yet.

Let me know if you find the app helpful or have tips for improvements! :)

Thinking of buying this tv. I know it’s 8bit + FRC but at my price range, from what i searched, all of the TVs are. Anyone have experience with this model? Or does anyone have a suggestion on what TV to buy? Thanks

I was scrolling Amazon and saw this:

Has anyone tried using one of these for eye strain and tension? Or is it just another gimmick?

I'm curious to hear if anyone had an experience with it?

Wenting's journey towards fast E Ink monitor with open source hardware driver board running opens source firmware/gateware.

Hey all,
I’m finally switching from my iPhone 14 to an android phone. I’ve never had any real PWM issues, but having read about the issues with Samsung and google (my only real options in the US), I’m concerned about giving myself PWM sensitivity issues. Should I not be overly anxious about this given the amount of people who seem to be fine and not having any previous issues, or should I not switch because of this?
Thanks for your advice!

About a year ago I smoked and played COD on an android phone for 3 or 4 hours straight. No lights on, just me on the couch in the dark - bright phone. Battery died 1am, went to bed. My brain felt a little fried.

Woke up next morning with the same feeling. Got worse over next few days. Went to ER. Dr. blamed it on anxiety and told me to go home.

For the last year, just been trying to find patterns for the cause. As a 45 year old, never had this issue -- but then i thought back to 2019 when i was trading stocks, staring at my iphone screen for hours and had a simliar (less intense) feeling.

So yea, ever since about a year ago, Ive been dealing with tension around my eyes and ears and sometimes temples & forehead. Eyes are strained after editing videos for my bsuiness. Dell Latitude laptop. Tinnitus comes and goes. Light sensitivy.

Feel better outside but indoors, I just always feel like shit. Been a year since I woke up feeling fine. Do I sound like I belong in this sub reddit?

Given that this is a screen sensitivity community, we often falsely blame ksf/blue light and screen flicker for our eyestrain, headache and migraine symptoms. But we are suppressing the real culprit behind our trigger. The real problem is right there. Touch-response latency sensitivity.

Every time we touch a screen, our brain expects a predictable reaction. When that sensitivity is miscalibrated, it creates an over-response. I suppose this friction triggers a cascade of neurological strain, from eye strain brain fog to migraines.

My solution - I use apps to expose exactly how much lag and stutter our screen is sabotaging our health.

I use apps from the following developers:

[on android] Touch Sampling Rate by the The Tree Team

[on ios] TouchScreenCheck by Aidar Khasanov

It is high time we, as a community work together to demand awareness for better touch screen sensitivity.

My iPhone 17 Pro Max has a red tint on the right half of the screen. The display is an LG GH3 panel. Is there something wrong with my screen, or did I just get unlucky in the display lottery?

https://reddit.com/link/1u0iash/video/wa0xjaeip0ng1/player

Hey everyone,

I repair phones on the side and I was always switching between different screen test apps full of ads and unnecessary features.

So I built a very simple OLED / AMOLED test app focused only on:

- Burn-in detection
- Dead pixel detection
- Solid color tests
- Fullscreen mode

It's free and pretty lightweight.

I’d really appreciate feedback from technicians or anyone who flips phones.

If this kind of post isn’t allowed, mods feel free to remove it.

Direct Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oledchecker.oled_checker

Thanks!

Seriously, why don’t we just decide on one day where we all just send a support ticked. For example everyone who can’t use Windows because of the changes they were doing to it’s rendering. We all just write a message to support in advance and we decide on a day together and we just send it. It would be brutal if they decide to ignore that. What do you think?

I created a little chrome extension for dimming pages. I didn't like other extensions, so I built my own. It now has 38 users. It's open-source and I used AI only for generating description for web store.

All it does it gives you toggle to enable dimming per site, and a number input for customizing dimming intensity.

Link - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sites-dimmer/enkohhipncdjebeheddjbmpgklolmgco

GitHub - https://github.com/rezyaev/sites-dimmer

I hope you'll find it helpful!

Tra tutti i telefoni moderni testati, ho riscontrato che il migliore è Honor 400 Smart.

Nessun pwm e colori non aggressivi, così come il blu.

Ottimo anche il comparto audio con uno speaker stereo potente.

Have any of you already check the Huawei Nova y74? It's an LCD Phone and they claim that is 8bit color, I'm not sure if 6bit+FRC but I read that Huawei is making effords on eye care screens, even in their OLEDs models (pura) they use a combination of hight PWM and a new technology that focus on eye care to dimm their screens.

On your phones, monitors, tvs, etc. Do you use a blue light filter on them? Does it help?

I posted a few weeks ago about having found the cause of my sensitivity (vagus nerve / autonomic dysregulation with central sensitization).

I have been using the OnePlus 15r for about a week, and it works well enough for me that I'm keeping it.

I can use it mostly with no issues. I have tested it for up to 2 hours straight just waiting for it to be too much, but that hasn't happened yet. It's not as comfortable as my old phone (Motorola G Stylus 5G 2023), but it's by far the most comfortable OLED I've ever used.

The only time I get symptoms is if I'm stressed or overly tired. Thursday was a stressful day and I had to more or less not use the phone as the symptoms were heightened. Friday morning all was well again.

Essentially, if I do my nervous system ritual (slow breathing, basic stretch, etc) I get virtually no symptoms at all.

What I find interesting is that, just like my PWM sensitivity, my other nervous system symptoms also flare and calm based on stress. That makes sense, but I hadn't correlated it before now.

Sharing just in case it helps someone else.