“I didn’t do anything to deserve this. The phone sat on my desk while I wrote about it, and I would occasionally stop to poke the screen, take a screenshot, or open and close it. It was never dropped or exposed to a significant amount of grit, nor had it gone through the years of normal wear and tear that phones are expected to survive. This was the lightest possible usage of a phone, and it still broke.”
This can happen to any phone of course — there are numerous threads on reddit of faulty S23 phones that are only days old, and of course the first Galaxy fold phones were problematic — but still. Rough start!
Dang, you’ve got eyes of steel. I could never read books on an LED screen - the eyestrain is just too much. E-ink doesn’t have that issue.
I don’t get that, really. I get eyestrain from e-ink. It’s just so hard to read because of the way it looks. Reading on a tablet is just like anything else. Also, you should know that using a tablet isn’t like reading a piece of paper – it emits light, rather than absorbing it. Dark mode is your friend. I think that’s people’s problems trying to read on a tablet, they don’t use dark mode and end up staring into a bright light for hours on end.
Dark mode should be the natural, default state on all computers, tablets, smartphones, etc. You’re goinjg to ruin your eyes staring into a white screen.
I do already use dark mode (Dark Reader ftw) but for me, any emissive display seems to cause eyestrain over a long enough period. I rarely use the backlight on my e-ink reader, so it reads like crisp print on paper.
Maybe you were using really low-res/first gen e-ink? Or perhaps we’re just built different :p
Nah, I think we’re just built differently. Well, I’m built differently, with spare, broken, defective parts. Such is my life. Even modern e-ink readers give me eyestrain.
Honestly, I’m jealous. Being a programmer means I spend a lot of time staring at LED displays whether I like it or not 🙃