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Steven Fage's avatar

Gray as I type. Err day keeps the doctor away

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Giuseppe A. D'Angelo's avatar

And yet, products that were valued for their grey simplicity like Kindle and Remarkable, inevitably ended up to be launched in colour. And that proves your point!

(but the OG Game Boy has been successful for ages even with the other brands and Nintendo itself launching more advanced portable consoles... what happened to those times?)

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Wait, there's a coloured version of Remarkable?!

I have one in black and white and feels amazing.

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xavi galindo's avatar

This is the kind of content I love! Not just a tip, but an experiment to prove if it actually works. Thanks for the documentation and insights; I really enjoyed reading it!

I also liked the outcome (using greyscale on weekends and time off) as it reflects a deeper thought process about both the benefits and personal context.

Actually, I am gonna do the experiment myself too, as I tried it for a while but I ended up switching back to full color. Maybe I was not properly trying, so let's give it another go!

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Thanks for the kind words, Xavi!

Please, let me know how it goes.

In my case, it certainly helped knowing that I was experimenting 🙂

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Ferhan Ç.'s avatar

I lack the courage to switch my phone to grayscale because I experienced this twenty years ago or more. I am not ready, and I prefer living in a colorful world.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Agree, but the real colors are outside 🙂

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Ferhan Ç.'s avatar

I know, but I still prefer a color screen. Meanwhile, your advice for the challenge is intriguing. It is worth trying. 👍🤔😊

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Try it and let me know how it goes :)

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Fred de Villamil's avatar

I switched to greyscale on my iPhone and MacBook Pro several years ago, I really enjoyed it until I actually needed to see the colors. I stopped completely.

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Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi's avatar

Da tempo faccio periodi in bianco e nero, ma inverto anche per cui vedo tutte le immagini in negativo. Faccio questo per purificarmi non tanto dal tel (sembra impossibile) ma dalle immagini che ci bombardano.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Verissimo.

Tra le altre cose, sento di aver "riscoperto" i colori

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Alessandro Pucci's avatar

I made the same and after more than 2 months in grayscale you realize how necessary the colors are: google maps is almost unusable, unless you are a fan of black and white the camera becomes useless, you lose all the status indications that the colors give (checks on wapp, the buttons you don't understand if they are deactivated or clickable, the photos of the food are less inviting :D, the covers of the albums of spotify become an old photo album). On the other hand, reading becomes more immersive (I have fewer lapses of attention when reading substack and the videos become to listen to). I did it to avoid that my 3 month old son avoids looking at the smartphone but I assure you it doesn't work :D

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Andrew Kingston's avatar

Have been using greyscale for about 3 years. After a year, I found the regular color mode to be overstimulating. For example, if I had toggled back to color to look at a photo, then forgotten to switch it back to greyscale before I opened another app, I was thrown for a loop by all of the colors. Spotify and the small album covers it displays is the example that comes to mind.

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Håkon's avatar

Nice one, Giacomo - I love these types of experiments. Well documented.

Recently I wrote about my experiment changing my Iphone 15 Pro to a Motorola with MUCH poorer performance. It has had crazy effect on my life

https://thefairhawk.substack.com/p/dopamine-chronicles-14-the-experiment

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