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I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.
Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)
Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.
Plus then my eyes don’t get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn’t have built in dark mode support.
I don’t really care what’s default, but 10 years of prison to anyone who doesn’t offer both! And an easy way to switch between the two that doesn’t require digging through menus.
as a dark mode enjoyer, as I grow older I found that I prefer not pure black for the background, and not pure white for the text. sometimes google did well in the case of material UI guideline in the beginning. they set that the background is almost black gray and the text some kind of offwhite IIRC. Back then I disliked it but now I understand the decision.
if a website or app is designed with dark mode in the first place I found that it is a lot more calming to me to look at it a long time. although for eink and similar technology displays, I still prefer traditional black text In white.
Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.
My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.
I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.
Yeah. And it probably depends on how much time you spend outside
As little as possible thank you very much. Outside has people!
shudder
Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)
Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.
Plus then my eyes don’t get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn’t have built in dark mode support.
I don’t really care what’s default, but 10 years of prison to anyone who doesn’t offer both! And an easy way to switch between the two that doesn’t require digging through menus.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
…and no proper glasses?
Astigmatic people can still have some issues with glasses, especially ones with more acute astigmatism
Eg:
It isn’t this strong for everyone, ofc
I literally can’t read white on black text.
I don’t know why anyone likes it.
as a dark mode enjoyer, as I grow older I found that I prefer not pure black for the background, and not pure white for the text. sometimes google did well in the case of material UI guideline in the beginning. they set that the background is almost black gray and the text some kind of offwhite IIRC. Back then I disliked it but now I understand the decision.
if a website or app is designed with dark mode in the first place I found that it is a lot more calming to me to look at it a long time. although for eink and similar technology displays, I still prefer traditional black text In white.