[the_d3f4ult]

|I recall that a paper published by Oxford in a journal related to gerontology claimed that blue light accelerated aging of the |retina. If I understand correctly, this article doesn't counter that claim outright, it just didn't find that risk with the low | |intensity of blue light coming from a typical monitor.

I don't know the paper you're referring to but I'd be curious to read it. The most commonly espoused hypothesis that I hear is that increased exposure to blue light increases the rate of progression of age-related macular degeneration. Macular degeneration is essentially an accumulation of the byproducts of photoreceptor recycling in the retina. Certain people in the business of selling glasses latched onto this idea and it's spawned a cottage industry of snake oil salesman peddling dubiously effective blue-light filtering glasses and other gizmos. As far as I am aware there is no evidence that blue light actually increases the rate of progression of AMD in humans, and there's some compelling evidence that it has no effect.

https://www.aaojournal.org/article/S0161-6420(20)30727-2/ful...

[GhettoComputers]

The brightness of blue light matters. Its like measuring how radioactive a banana is and worrying about it.

[copperx]

I just remembered the dark sunglasses that some senior people wear that look almost like goggles, where the sides are also covered. I have never asked what are those for, but I imagine it's for preventing degeneration.

[the_d3f4ult]

They're designed to fit over regular prescription glasses and block light coming in peripherally. We give them to everyone after eye surgery. They're not specifically designed to prevent macular degeneration. Try them sometime, they work incredibly well. I wear them now when driving.