color prior to f.lux installation, vs. 6500K setting
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Computer: Mac M1 MBAir
Hello!
Quoting https://justgetflux.com/news/pages/macquickstart/
f.lux Preferences
"Daytime is whenever the sun is up in your location. By default, f.lux is at 6500K during the daytime, and does not change your screen’s color."<<
This seems to me that prior to installation, the monitor used to be EXACTLY the same as it is when I set f.lux to 6500K.
(I do experience noticeable eye strain at 6500K, so I was amazed the MacBook must have been so cold and blue by default)
I was then wondering: doesn't this imply that f.lux is based on the assumption that all monitors are 6500K by default, if this is the reference point? I.e., does the setting 6500K do precisely NOTHING?
Thanks for answers!
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@influxensa first, yes it should do nothing!
I'll be slightly more correct than our FAQ:
Monitors use a chromaticity called "D65" which has a tiny bit more green in it than 6500K does and is also around 6504K, and basically every display in the world is calibrated to show this color as white. When you ask f.lux to use 6500K it really uses D65....but that's why it does "nothing".
