It doesn't matter how big or small the program is, appdata is not for executables, period!
If every developer used this logic "my app is so small, no reason ask user were to install it" the PC would turn into smart phone clone (although it seems windows is heading that way anyway)

How many Windows users out there that don't have admin privileges on their Windows PC? Perhaps by providing ability change installation directory it would allow install by non-admin and receive updates by non-admins. Or better yet - a portable version would kill 3 birds with one stone...

Regarding updates, there are two different approaches in software updates:

update notification with provided ability to install forced update

A good software would use #1 and allow user choice if they want update or not (and perhaps even allow them chose if app should remember their choice in next update). Many users don't like fresh updates, because often it bring more problems and they want to see other users responses first.
f.lux unfortunately chosen #2, doing it without user's consent, opening a door for installing whatever it wants without user's knowledge, sorry, but that's exactly how backdoor trojans work...
"You simply cannot convince millions of people to update by hand, it doesn't work." that's precisely why #2 approach is bad, because a lot of people disable auto updates that happen without their knowledge and now have to update it manually.

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And f.lux team being an asshole, by giving negative reputation to posts they don't like, while we, mortals, can only give positive reputation...

Thank you! I'll look forward to its return then.

The beta version I posted yesterday says "Adjust day and night colors together..."

It will need an editing pass to reduce the word count, but I'm trying to fix it. :)

@herf In general ! I haven't tried f.lux as of yet! Please include Text-size customizations within f.lux interface so that one could tinker with Font-settings for entire Win OS. How do you make your Desktop items appear in Bold text size? Pl reveal ?

it already does, right click the flux icon > disable > for full-screen app

You're welcome! This program was shown to me right here on the f.lux forum too.

Oh, and I know this may not be necessary, but I apologize for not providing a convenient link to the program. I didn't want my post to look like spam or some official advertisement. I've learned it's good to be more careful than usual on this forum.

@herf Already using the beta. I just feel the curve is too steep.

Hi - we prevent sleep if you turn on Philips Hue support, currently.

@herf I'm not very computer savvy but according to my driver updating software "Driver Easy" all my drivers are up to date.

I think it'll work well since you're allowing yourself at least 3 hours to unwind before going to sleep.

ooohh, I see :)

thanks for clearing that up, I suspected that was the case but couldn't remember if soft white was there before or not.

This is why I think @herf and or @lorna need to explain this or talk about this. I think I can really only come from the perspective of how I use f.lux, and really, I rarely use the 24-hour preview nor do I ever really look at that part of the window. If I ever want to change my settings, then I change them and I am done. I think the 24-hour preview is really just to check to see if you will like your settings because it gives you a quick overview of what your settings will do in each of the 3 modes. I really don't see a need to have the time represented there. All you need to know is what part is daytime, what part is night, and what part is bedtime mode. The exact time isn't needed.

The 24-hour preview is to just verify that you set up your color temperatures the way you want them to be for each of the modes. It's to verify that f.lux will behave the way you want it to behave in each mode. The exact time doesn't need to be shown there.

@Redthirst said in Fully disable binding to wake up time?:

@herf said in Fully disable binding to wake up time?:

How variable is your wake time? We are learning a lot about people's schedules.

Generally your body is still keeping to a pretty rigid schedule even if your sleep is not, so this is why we ask you to pick your "earliest" time.

If you're doing multiple days of the same schedule, it may even be worth it to try to shift your clock to match, but if it's one day and back again, it would be harder to do.

My bedtime varies depending on when I need to be awake, so usually between 10 PM and 12 AM. Wake time is at around 7-8 AM, however I don't turn my PC on immediately after I wake up, so the actual wake time as far as f.lux is concerned varies heavily depending on what I do in the morning.

And as I said previously, my main issue wasn't that it had the wrong time, it was that I prefer to set one color for daytime and one color for nightime, instead of having to constantly adjust to f.lux making colors warmer at night. As Classic f.lux preset apparently does it, I'm just going to use it.

All you have to do is configure each mode the way you want each mode to be. Go to "Adjust all colors at once..." You can fake your location and your wake time in order to switch between the 3 modes so that you can configure all 3 modes within a matter of a minute or so.

The earliest wake time is only for bedtime mode, and you're really only going to see bedtime mode at night. F.lux will shift to the bedtime mode 9 hours prior to the wake time you set. So, it doesn't matter if you don't turn your computer on when you wake up. You could wake up and spend nearly the entire day without ever touching the computer, and it still wouldn't matter.

I would agree if you were to say that it would be much less confusing if we could just tell f.lux when to enable bedtime mode and when to quit bedtime mode. However, it seems to me it was set up this way so that the Backwards Alarm Clock would make sense.

So on that note, @herf , perhaps it would be better if instead of setting one's earliest wake time, we could just tell f.lux when to switch to bedtime mode - and also configure how long bedtime mode lasts. It would probably also be nice if bedtime mode could be optional (meaning, disabling it results in being much more like f.lux v3 - or perhaps identical to it).

Thanks @herf and @TwoCables. Will try to restart next time I'm at work (Tuesday) and update!