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This is often repeated nonsense. What is hard on your eyes is changing intensity. Switching between dark code and light email is the problem. The screen should also be about the same brightness as the room, so looking away from the computer doesn't require eye adjustment. The transition from dark to light is mildly painful, so you have a false sensation that the dark background is better because switching away from i…
> The screen should also be about the same brightness as the room, so looking away from the computer doesn't require eye adjustment. Well, I like my room quite dark too. Besides that, that "what is hard on your eyes is changing intensity" is absolutely BS. Do you get comfortamble with a strobe light on your eyes after a while if it doesn't "change the intensity"? Photo-sensitivity is a thing.
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#51Oops, wrote "strobe", meant "spot light".