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Screen settings

Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2017–2026), in 3 threads.

People raised many different problems with Screen settings, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 3 complaints

Key presses are ignored while screen is blank, so pausing music requires waiting for the screen to wake2026-07-14
Too easy to bypass blocks with one more minute or ignore for the day2025-01-21
Non-technical users are confused and frustrated that 1cm and 12pt do not match physical paper size on screen2017-11-07