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Comment on Ask HN: Please share tips and strategies for dealing with eye strain

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- monitor set to lowest possible brightness

- blue light filter always on, on all devices with screens

- ambient contrast lighting. either buy a $5 table lamp and direct it to the wall at the back of your screen, or go crazy with expensive RGB. both work

- k-n-m rule. People say 20-20-20. but any number works, really. regularly stare away from the screen at a distance at regular interval

- use glasses with blue light filtering using ARC

- good sleep also matters

I do all these myself, and never get eye-strain, not even after intense sessions of 14 hours.

Is there a brand / type of glasses you would recommend? Any generic / cheap blue light filtering would do the trick?

I got the Gunnars and a Blue Light Screen protector. I figured the most expensive is the best.

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