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Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

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Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#61

Eh, I prefer dark mode aesthetically, and also I personally find that, at 4 am in a dark room where the only lights are a single desk lamp behind my monitors, and the monitors themselves, white backgrounds are painful. I’m willing to accept that if I was in a sunny room at high noon that light mode might be better.

I have all my screens with the blue light filter always on. I find it painful to watch other screens now

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#62

> By default, the human pupil changes size depending on the amount of light in the environment This is the key: Do you work on a very illuminated place? Use light mode. Do you work in somewhat darkness? Please use dark mode. At least that's what I try to follow, otherwise at the end of the day my eyes gets very tired.

It's usually always possible to just illuminate the room unless you are out programming at a bus stop at night I guess.

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#63

Eh, I prefer dark mode aesthetically, and also I personally find that, at 4 am in a dark room where the only lights are a single desk lamp behind my monitors, and the monitors themselves, white backgrounds are painful. I’m willing to accept that if I was in a sunny room at high noon that light mode might be better.

They used to say it was bad for your eyes to watch TV without having a lamp on in the room. Looking it up now, it sounds like it causes eye fatigue but not damage.

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#64
> A nice dark screen with light text is easier to read, right? Well, according to multiple studies, that’s wrong apparently

In this sentence, I feel like I witnessed the author ascend straight up his own ass. Author is basically saying:

“Objective studies show that [subjective topic] is actually…”

> This post is day 04 of my #100DaysToOffload challenge. If you want to get involved, you can get more info from https://100daystooffload.com.

Ah, so it’s trendy yuppycore bs. That explains it.

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#65
"dark mode" is nice in theory, but the effect is completely broken as soon as anything non-dark slips through.

for instance (on windows at least) the program "OBS" uses a dark theme; in a recent version, when you open up any settings window, the window is drawn for a few milliseconds as a bright white square, before the dark window 'renders' [0]. this sudden strobe of white light, without warning, is worse than if the interface was just bright all the time (imo)

this flashing light issue has also plagued chromium off and on for over 10 years. [1]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/P9rM5A3.gif

[1] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=21798

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#66
For me having Dark Mode is actually better accessibility-wise. Since I've had cataracts (and the surgery fixing them) years ago my eyes are really sensitive to glare and generally bright lights (especially sun light and lightning flashes¹), meaning reading on screens in light mode makes my eyes and head hurt within minutes.

¹: which ever since having my natural lenses replaced by synthetic ones appear violet to me instead of the bluish-white before

Re: Is Dark Mode Good for Your Eyes? (2020)

#70
post #27

Personally, I find using f.lux and running all screens at 10-20% brightness more pleasant than dark mode. Depending of course on the individual screen, so occasionally it can be higher. And my phone outdoors on a sunny day may very well be at 100%.

Same. I'm no doctor here but setting screen brightness to ambient level (typically low at 20-30%) with proper contrast can't be underestimated. And Flux or "night light" 24/7 to cut the blue.
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