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I dont understand the hate for light mode. Whats wrong with being able to fucking see. Why does my text have to be goth for you.
Goth text is on light mode. Dark mode has light text.
Computers classically have been dark screens with light elements. Think green screen CRTs like in The Matrix. I don’t enjoy large blank areas of the screen being a flashlight directly into my eyes. There’s nothing there, why’s it emitting light?
Yes, but before computers, we had books. You’re not going to sit here and expect me to believe that the baseline text for books is goth, are you?
Last time i checked books weren't a light source
Yes, but also black background with light lettering is definitely goth. See: every band shirt
You can use a white screen as an impromptu flashlight, try that with a book.
Ok, I tried it, it didn’t work. I still stand by my assertion that black backgrounds with white text are more goth.
It's uncomfortably bright, especially if the room isn't already very bright. My apartment is lit by a single lamp and a little sunlight from the windows. Full screen light mode is like a flashlight in my face, and too big a change in brightness every time I look around my apartment and then back to the screen.
Do you have trouble seeing dark mode? That's hard for me to imagine.
Well its a point of preference obviously. But people seem angry when I say I prefer light mode for some reason.
Oh. Well. I don't think anger is an appropriate response, unless you're some sort of evil light mode gremlin that switches people's settings on them.
I did give some of my old coworkers shit whenever they shared screen with full light mode, because it was like a mini flashbang.
I don’t hate it but If I work in light mode or have phone in that mode then I will leave the office with a head ache.
To me with dark mode anything I am reading is light. I am looking for light. In light mode everything is light and you’re looking for the absence of light and I can’t take it. It doesn’t hurt my eyes but it certainly makes me squint more often and then get a headache or worse a migraine.
I also work with sunglasses in the office as the office itself is too bright.
I’ve been using computers since the early 90’s and they were always dark mode first. Particularly in jobs with bright text on black.
I had a job in which I was seated at a computer in front of a window wall facing southwest. Like I was facing the window to see my computer. I wasn’t right next to said window, but it was the entire wall so it genuinely didn’t matter. There wasn’t really anywhere in our office that wasn’t looking at that window wall.
I’m photophobic (aka abnormally sensitive to light, it causes pain and headaches) and lemme tell you, I hated working there. Even sunglasses didn’t help in the afternoon, and I’d go home with the worst headaches.
I dislike light mode for the same reason even if it’s less extreme. It’s just so much light. I hate that it’s the default for websites and there’s usually no option to change it.
Firefox with the Dark Reader extension is a godsend.
I tried to get security to approve using that or something similar for work, but nope. Too sensitive of a job to allow that much access, I guess.
I tried messing with the flags in chrome to allow dark mode default natively as well, but that broke a bunch of stuff, instead.
I do use that stuff on my own devices though :)
Interesting as the window is the main factor for me in the office. My desk is facing the window, not close to it but it’s there and bright.
At home, when working from home, most the time, my desk is facing a wall with the window behind me and using closed curtains.
So what I’m hearing is maybe I’m a little sensible to light and that’s why I leave with headaches? I used to hate driving at night too as all the other lights on cars and stuff are super bright and again I’d get headaches.
Very possibly. It doesn’t even necessarily have to be always, like there are medications that cause sensitivity to light as a side effect.
There isn’t really much to be done about it, unfortunately, other than learning to recognize what triggers it and doing your best to avoid or reduce exposure to those environments. But even that can make a huge difference. I try not to drive at night for the same reasons you do.
Maybe pay attention to the actual light levels from the window and see if brighter days are more headache inducing. In office buildings it could also be from fluorescent lights, those are horrible, especially if you can see the flicker.
Exactly!