Mastodawn

nokidding Jul 14, 2023

I’ll tell some background on why I asked the original question.

I am using a setup where I have adjusted the amount of blue light emitted by my display to as low levels as I could from the interface accessible through the physical buttons in my display. My display is also set to be so dim that when some other people took a look at my display, they had a hard time seeing almost anything even at a good viewing angle.

I also have the night light feature set to as warm as possible on my Ubuntu Linux.

I can also easily control all other possible light sources in the place I am in, including blocking virtually any and all sunlight.

I do know that ambient lighting can be beneficial to the eyes, however. I solely came up with the original question out of curiosity and actual real life setting in mind.

The display I use does look like it is from the control panel of a submarine but that is not a problem to me as a programmer that uses no syntax highlighting as I see no need (or any positive effect from highlighting in my case: I wouldn’t read a novel with different words in different colors; I find such features in editors distracting (and Vim or a similar editor without plugins tends to be pure bliss compared to IDEs)) to highlight syntax while programming; all the semantic information I need is in the source code text (i.e., without color data) itself (excluding e.g. colorForth when rendered the way that language is (AFAIK) typically rendered on the screen).

nokidding Jul 14, 2023

Why filter blue light instead of not emitting it in the first place in a situation involving a computer display and a human observer with no other sources of blue light?

https://lemmy.world/post/1468738

Why filter blue light instead of not emitting it in the first place in a situation involving a computer display and a human observer with no other sources of blue light? - Lemmy.world

What is the natural science reason to wear blue light eyeglasses instead of just turning one’s computer display’s blue lights off or very low in spaces where there are no other sources of blue light than the screen the person is watching? Suppose that the person has perfect visual acuity without eyeglasses. Suppose also that all other possible protective measures achieved by the blue light eyeglasses are achieved by other means, such as by using UV filtering eyeglasses of the same shape and frame material and frame color as the blue light eyeglasses assuming that the blue light eyeglasses do have such protection. Economic, ease of use, technical savviness, time needed to configure the display or other such reasons are out of scope of the question. Other situations where there is blue light are also out of scope just as the overall harm caused by blue light.

nokidding Jul 12, 2023

I got my vasectomy yesterday, my relatives might not like it, still my best decision ever

https://lemmy.world/post/1380741

I got my vasectomy yesterday, my relatives might not like it, still my best decision ever - LemmyWorld

Greetings from Finland! I got my vasectomy yesterday at the age of 30. Starting from that age a Finn can get sterilized with just the approval of the doctor that’s going to perform that surgery. That procedure was a huge relief in my life. It may sound weird to some but I rejected all kinds of intimate interest from women (even though I am a hetero male) until this point in life mostly because I always, since childhood, had that nagging fear of procreating which is something I really want to avoid as one could see 😃 Girls must have kind of thought I just don’t really like females or something 🤣 Temporary contraception to prevent pregnancy is too unreliable to me in my personal case; I don’t want a relationship where I would constantly worry about contraception failing. The contraceptive items could break, I couldn’t know for sure if a woman has used her contraceptives; and some female contraceptives would carry too big of a health risk to her (I just cannot tolerate those risks to my prospective lady but want to cherish her). I’ll just have to wait a few months to hopefully get a negative lab test to show there are no cells to create offspring in that stuff. Then I can finally start looking for a spouse without fear of pulling a trolley around the balcony later on. I have realized lately that a relationship usually just doesn’t work (not all cases of all people are such, however) if one of the partners is a childfree-minded individual and the other is not. So I think the only way to find happiness and longevity with a spouse in my case is to find a partner who is sterilized, too. I just know of too many cases of a person telling to their not-willing-to-reproduce partner that they don’t want kids, either, and after basically building their life together, telling to that partner that maybe a kid would be a good thing after all and then divorcing. This surgery was one of the best things to happen to me ever. I am really happy with my decision. However, some very conservative religious relatives and other such people around me might give me some nagging and whining if they somehow find out that I got sterilized. I still have my Christian faith like I used to, I just won’t make kids. Marriage is not meant to be a Victorian era “Shut your eyes tight and think of England” kind of thing, anyway 😃