• hOrni@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Fuck You. I don’t know where You live, but maybe You have enough summer. My country is gray and sad for 10 months out of the year. It only gets sunny and sad for 2 months and it’s the only time when the depression eases up a bit. I’d rather die in a heatwave than live through another autumn.

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        I’d rather die in a heatwave

        Well I’ve got good news for you!

      • HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        2 months ago

        If you’re dealing with SAD we cannot recommend getting a ridiculously oversized bay light to live over your desk highly enough. Our is in excess of 30k lumens, so like, seriously, ridiculously oversized. They really do help.

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            A few hours a day is probably enough. If it’s LED you can probably adjust the color temperature too, so like a warmer light in the evening and a bluer light in the morning, maybe pure white around late morning/early afternoon. Or just get three different bulbs.

            Might help for a few hours of high-focus time, then take a break with some dimmer light to reset. Doesn’t need to be all day.

            Doesn’t need to be 30k lumens either. 5k-10k is already insanely bright and should be effective when combined with the right white-balance. Even 500-1000 lumens is plenty bright enough for most purposes. Higher kelvins (like 5k-8k) makes the light more bluish and that’s what’s most important for treating SAD. Some UV spectrum is helpful for that too as it helps with vitamin D synthesis

            If color fidelity is important to your line of work, a bulb with 90-100 CRI is a great idea too.

            My desk lamp has a 500 lumen, 5000 kelvin, 90+ CRI bulb and I can’t imagine a situation where I would need it to be brighter. I have a similar bulb that’s 1100 lumens but it feels like overkill.

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          That is ridiculous. I mean I can believe they make them, I just can’t believe they’re legal. My headlight on my bike is only 500 lumen and it gets the street good enough for the speeds I can get up to.

          • HopeOfTheGunblade@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            Why… wouldn’t it be?

            Bay light, not bike light. Next time you’re in a big box store, look up. If they have round lights, those are the style.

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        2 months ago

        This seems like an excessively hostile reply to leave to an innocuous comment? Are you doing okay? I ask this earnestly; I know that I’m much more likely to leave angry comments if I’m having an especially bad day, so I was wondering if the same might be true for you

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          2 months ago

          Obviously I’m having a bad day. It’s wednesday so I had to go to work.

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        Florida welcomes you with open arms. I get seasonal depression in the summer because it’s too hot to do anything outside most days

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        It’s okay, your country will be subtropical in a few years while everyone else is already being burnt out of existence

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    Back when I proctored his championship attempt for LearnedLeague some years back, I got to talk to him for a bit and he was pretty cool.

    Never imagined from that moment that he’d end up hosting Jeopardy!, though.