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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)

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Can I interest you in some homeopathic remedies or a bottle of snake oil? Maybe prayer? History is full of people who thought/think their bias and anecdotal evidence is good enough.

Those are some very poor comparisons. Maybe if someone is claiming that dark mode or light mode have long-term effects on your health, but what people are actually claiming is just that they find one or the other more comfortable. There’s no meaningful scientific “truth” to that beyond a person’s own stated preference, just like there’s no scientifically most comfortable pair of pants or best color of wall paint. For…

These comparisons are entirely correct and accurate.

The linked article is about objective measures of eye strain and health. Unless someone explicitly says otherwise, it's very reasonable to assume that they're also discussing those objective measures instead of subjective perception. If not - they're completely off-topic and they shouldn't be commenting here.

In particular, the comment earlier in this thread "I don't need to read other's research about dark mode to know how it lessens eye-strain. I have performed the experiment myself with my own eyes." doesn't say "my subjective perception of eye-strain", so we can assume that they're referring to the objective measurements, as is the actual topic for the thread.

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

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Anecdote here, but any time I use dark mode even for a few minutes, it makes my eyes feel awful, and leaves ghostly shadows of text lines in my vision for up to a minute or two after leaving the screen. Reading anything in light mode on the other hand doesn't cause me much trouble even after hours of doing it nearly without interruption.. I have a hard time believing that i'm the only one. Personally, I detest dark mode and have never understood why so many people recommend it.

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Nothing screams tech bro like "I used to be one of those techbros who did " Source: I got "very pure" on the tech bro purity test

I'd like to agree, and elaborate. The use of the "tech bro" stereotype in the article really rubs me the wrong way. It's a complete rhetorical low blow. It's identifying the opposite of the author's opinion with a group, and then portraying that group in a way so that the reader would rather distance themselves from that group than identify with that group. This triggers in-group/out-group psychology along the lines…

Excellent elaboration, thanks!

You eloquently summed up exactly the thought process & distaste I experienced but in a way which adds some conversational pithiness rather than the pablum of my throwaway jest.

10 points to gryffindor!

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

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Photons was only mentioned 4 times at the time of this writing. I appreciate low frequency waves when my eyes are adjusted to those low frequencies. Same as another would high frequency. Is my red the same as yours? My blue is very significant; in this way we experience colors.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This post seems to boil down to, "I read a summary of one study, so I am confident in telling you all how wrong you are". Most/all of the points were well known back in the days when I used CRT monitors - he's not reporting something new. In fact, reading some of the comments, I'm quite surprised people still believe there are inherent benefits to dark mode. There's not really much research supporting it. It's just…

> In fact, reading some of the comments, I'm quite surprised people still believe there are inherent benefits to dark mode. There's not really much research supporting it. That's actually kind of ridiculous. I don't need to read other's research about dark mode to know how it lessens eye-strain. I have performed the experiment myself with my own eyes.

Now increase your sample size. Then, maybe, start to draw conclusions.
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