Show HN: Stillcolor – Reduce eyestrain on macOS by disabling temporal dithering (opens in new tab)

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11 pointsaiaf2y ago4 comments

Recently got an M3 Max MBP which gave me severe eyestrain after less than an hour of use. Turns out the major cause for that was temporal dithering at the GPU level. I built Stillcolor to disable temporal dithering from user space, which helped massively reduce eyestrain with little to no degradation in image quality.

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niux2y ago

Thank you so much, aiaf. I recently purchased a MacBook Pro and have been experiencing some crazy eye strain. I've been testing this app for the past three days, and so far, it seems to have removed all my issues.

aiafOP2y ago

I'm happy it worked out for you!

smirya02y ago

Amazing piece of software and investigation into temporal dithering in the non-Intel macs. Thank you!

aiafOP2y ago

You're welcome but frankly I shouldn't do this nor should any one besides Apple. Apple has failed the community of PWM and temporal dithering sensitive individuals for almost a decade now, and hopefully this project can raise awareness and become additional proof against these technologies.

https://www.change.org/p/apple-add-accessibility-options-to-...

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Show HN: Stillcolor – Reduce eyestrain on macOS by disabling temporal dithering (opens in new tab)

(github.com)

11 pointsaiaf2y ago4 comments

4 comments

niux2y ago

aiafOP2y ago

I'm happy it worked out for you!

smirya02y ago

Amazing piece of software and investigation into temporal dithering in the non-Intel macs. Thank you!

aiafOP2y ago

https://www.change.org/p/apple-add-accessibility-options-to-...

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