[taftster]

So I like this and I'm trying it out, it seemingly works OK.

However, the GREEN background is very annoying. I don't need the whole webpage to be green for me to know it's on and working. I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work. So I'm left with a very big green screen sitting in the corner of my eye. Wondering too the effect of that in terms of screen color burnout (if that's even a thing anymore).

I would definitely recommend to tone down the color scheme. Stay away from green. Just go with grey and darker grey or black for your on/off schemes, including inside of the slider button.

My use case is that I have the "nosleep" computer on the side of my desk. It catches IM/chat messages (from Teams, etc.) and email (from Outlook). I don't like my primary development machine bothered by these notifications, but I do like having that machine "awake" and alert to chat/email notifications (and I can't (or shouldn't) change the default policies on that machine).

[toastal]

Using #000 would save the maximum power for any device with an OLED panels (like my laptop and my smart phone). Given that the idea is to keep a device on and some screens not being smart enough to understand this is an okay time to power down, #000 would be the only ethical color scheme to use. If you added a jitter to the placement of text over time, you could prevent possible burn in as well.

[ghotli]

I'm confused, kinda. If you want it to be a different color just alter the color?

Lots of ways to attack that, host it yourself, change it with chrome dev tools, a bookmarklet that alters the css, user scripts for css overrides like greasemonkey popularized back in the early days of the web. Hope this helps you get the color you'd like :)

[taftster]

"Show HN" is somewhat asking for feedback, is it not? Or am I mistaken in the format?

Yes, I can probably self-host something like this, change the color schema in a myriad of ways. But I thought the point of Show HN was to showcase and somewhat solicit feedback from the HN community.

[JadeNB]

> I can't minimize the browser (firefox) because then it apparently doesn't work.

Can't you have a separate, tiny window?

[throwanem]

MDN (linked from the page under discussion) says Firefox doesn't expose this API, so I feel like window configuration may be a side issue here.