I feel like Computers suck my lifeforce energy

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The feeling of the backlight, the distracting layout of the graphical interface, the way I absorb information in a kind of unfocused way, the way I can just follow google searches that turn up an endless number of results for whatever I'm obsessed about.... All these things leave me mentally drained. I like books much better, because, visually, its just less cluttered looking. You get the text, and that's it. With a web browser, I see all these images, and advertisements and artifacts competing for my attention. I really don't like multimedia, and have even read some studies that show we read slower and retain less knowledge and comprehension when there's more than one sensory input competing for our awareness. I dont feel this has a positive impact on my neurological tendencies, but I know that people on the spectrum often absorb their selves in this medium. I used to rely on it for socializing and for entertainment, but I feel its a kind of surrogate reality, more and more.

https://justgetflux.com/

This might help too: Firefox live bookmarks

Thanks, looks interesting. Thats a big part of the problem, just that unnatural glow.

Also try different monitor types: plasma and LCD are a lot worse, flicker-wise than CRT and LED screens

There's a lot of confusion in that statement.

Plasma, CRT, and LED are all light emitting devices.

LCD by it's nature is a light filtering device that depends on a back or side lighting device, which is usually CCFL (tiny fluorescent tube) or LED.

Plasma and CRT devices, as well as CCFL devices, have a pulsed refresh.

CRTs are the slowest. Old televisions refresh at 29.9hz, which is slow enough to see it. The best CRT monitors are a bit over 100hz. Since they use phosphor glow to emit light, the persistence of the phosphor glow is a factor. TVs with their slow refresh rate generally have a long phosphor persistence. This is what causes ghosting when you play videogames on them.

The CCFL tubes in older LCD displays are pulsed at hundreds of hz. Well beyond visibility. The LCD itself is re-drawn at 60hz (ish) typically but there isn't a persistence issue like there is with a CRT.

Most displays that call themselves "LED" are an LCD with LED lighting, which is not necessarily pulsed at all.

Plasma displays are pulsed, but they are pulsed at about 600hz, which is far beyond visible flicker.

If they had a computer with a kindle display, I would totally buy it. I don't really like fans either. The humming stresses me out. So, Id hook it up to a nettop It doesn't really bother me that I couldn't watch videos.

maybe you just need special glasses. talked to an ophthalmologist?

I was so disappointed when Pixel Qi went under. I figured just another couple years and there would be 14" xvga desktop monitors. It was going to be wonderful, like the days when I could sit for *hours* in front of a slow-fade green phosphor monitor with no eyestrain or flicker whatsoever.

However, for all the browser distractions, I've found firefox + ABP + Ghostery + Flashblock do a pretty decent job of only loading what I want to read. No ads, no animations, no graphics...just text.