Why isn’t this a thing? Just turning your monitor into grayscale mode, changes the entire experience. Have you ever played a video game in grayscale? After such a long time of being used to overstimulation, it feels like being on antipsychotics. The constant exposure to multimedia, videogames and the mere display of colors change the structure of our brain. This is why I believe, we need to invent low dopamine computing. Or in other words: Making Digital Detox permanent. Unfortunately it isn’t that easy with the prevalent technology/OS. There isn’t even a way to turn Linux Mint into greyscale mode. It tells alot about the ideology of the developers, that they refused to implement a simple option to turn on grayscale mode.
As someone who didn’t have enough money to get a color monitor, I can tell you colors have almost nothing to do with dopamine generation. I played a lot of games in B&W and even used mspaint! Printed my beloved drawings in a dot matrix printer…
I think you mean to reduce distractions, not colors…
You are exactly proving my point! You are already practicing low dopamine computing!
I’m not sure I follow.
Are you claiming that the colors have bigger impact on dopamine production than the actual content?
E-ink is great for this kind of experience, but it has one big problem: abysmal refresh rate. Enough for books, irrelevant for price tags so this is where it succeeds. Movies or fast typing? No.
I heard a rumor that an eink display can be oveclocked to reach reasonable rates, but it would probably wear it down rather fast.
Well the abysmal refresh rate makes for even less dopamine!
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I’m not sure if this would accomplish what you’re looking for, but it did give me an idea: wouldn’t it be cool if they had a monitor that used the fake ink effect (that thing that non-backlit digital books sometimes use) to make displays look “more natural” (read: different in an interesting way)
I think that’d be cool at the very least, and, due to it not being backlit, it would possibly get rid of the blue light issue (i’m not an expert in this field so idk how much of an issue blue light actually is when it comes to dopamine overdrive)
I might try and make a monitor like this if I can gather the skills to do it, I am only getting more excited about this idea lol
Ty for the inspiration!
Hijacking my own comment in case anyone else is interested in this, apparently it’s called e ink, and they’re just now starting to come out with full color monitors using it. Very cool stuff!
They do exist but they are very expensive
They exist and are getting better but refresh times are still horrible for many use cases.
This is a great idea! I’m very interested in your project. Please share it once it is finished!
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but is it at a scale that actually matters?
Probably not, but it is one of many elements which add up. This is why I believe, low dopamine computing is a system which combines many elements.
Hyprland has a way to write custom shaders which would do what you want https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/issues/1140#issuecomment-1546245134
This is not a thing because that’s not a concern for developers. They make the software in whatever way they think it looks best, maybe add some accessibility options, and leave the fine-tuning to the user’s display options. It’s strange to me that you interpret this as an ideology issue for developers.
Windows 11 has a color filter setting with hotkey.
Win + Ctrl + C but you’ll need to enable it and select grayscale first.
