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I used to use it and love it, but after a while I got tired of the inaccurate color profile in the evenings and realized I was disabling it more often than not. However, if you're just staring at documentation and code, it does wonders for your eyes. (An easy way to check how nice it is is to disable it late at night and feel your retinas come close to combustion)


Late night at the library a friend notices f.lux in action...

"why are your colours so messed up?"

"no, it's supposed to be this way at night. Check this out" disable f.lux; the bright flash starts burning our retinas

"woah"


The bright flash of daylight color temperature when the MacBook Pro's switch graphics cards is the only downside* that I've experienced using f.lux. After you've been using it for a while it's painful to use a computer without it at night.

*for non color-critical work


If the automatic graphics card switch annoys you (it annoys me), you can disable it with this handy app: http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus




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