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True. Use dark mode or don’t, but stop going on about it.
You often don't have a choice. Not without being forced to tinker around with your browser in ways that aren't readily accessible to many/most users. What us dark-mode haters are really asking for is a simple option to click.
It's also easily configured in Firefox.
Please consider the comfort of your users: sufficient contrast, sufficient text size, and when feasible, a choice of dark mode or light mode.
It’s a godsend for people with legitimate vision issues, such as eye floaters.
There's always a website, a person screensharing, a shared screenshot or something else that is light, and it WILL bother you if everything else is set to dark.
A dark thing in otherwise light settings doesn't produce the same issue, therefore adapting your settings for light work is more protective.
My main issue has been finding good light color schemes, particularly for neovim. Most have awful ideas like light yellow colors over light background, that I suspect come from just porting the dark mode to a light background as an afterthought. All of the themes I use have a few adjustments in my config.
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> Dark mode should be reserved for after sunset and before sunrise. Isn’t that already how it works in all major operating systems?
No, it’s only configurable. And many people like myself leave it dark mode permanently unless in a bright place. I think the debate comes down to how bright you keep your environment. OP likes bright overhead lighting and confuses that preference for the superiority of a preference downstream of it. Yawn. I’d rather look at a bright 27” screen in dark mode where I see full color fidelity than dim the screen so that b…
With Dark Mode.
There's a reason that extensions like Dark Mode¹ have 10,000,000+ installs while no "Light Mode" extensions can even exist as far as I can tell: more or less the entire internet is already light-mode by default, with no option even provided by webmasters for dark mode for those who want it on a vast majority of websites.
What I can't comprehend is why the people who already have light mode as the default across the entire internet can't be content letting people with a preference for dark mode even exist without aggressively trying to erase the preferences of people who don't feel the exact same way as themselves.
Further, for anyone using OLED panels, which is a non-insignificant portion, black backgrounds reduce power draw and therefore global carbon emissions. Light backgrounds literally accelerate climate change, however marginally.