It looks cool and makes me feel like a hacker. I mean, just look at it. It looks fucking cool. You can't deny it.
Using light mode makes me feel like I'm pragmatic since I don't care about looking cool. But I still do.
Is Dark Mode Such a Good Idea?
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
The implementation that ships with the system is somewhat poor.
It's funny because it worked perfectly on my 2012 MBP, and now that I am on a 2020 MBP, it switches but later than sunset. :shrug: If I set my city manually then it works.
Yeah, I’m not sure why it’s so inconsistent. Mine will never switch if there is a power assertion, which Safari seems to always create for no reason. I’m seriously considering going back to my old solution, which hooked directly into Night Shift to synchronize the appearance with that…
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#63It looks cool and makes me feel like a hacker. I mean, just look at it. It looks fucking cool. You can't deny it.
For me, dark mode is what you used on old 50 Hz CRT:s, where a light background would flicker so horribly that it drove you crazy in five minutes. If you had the luxury of professional kit, you used black-on-white.
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#64"Unless you’re using an OLED or AMOLED screen and your dark mode is truly black – not dark grey, not dark blue, BLACK. There is no difference in power consumption." I thought this was a myth. I looked into it last year and found that power consumption was (roughly) proportional to brightness. At a meta-level, I'm surprised that something with so factual (and testable) an answer can still not be settled.
Things have flip-flopped over the years:
CRT - Black didn't light up the pixels (I don't remember the details as to how), so it did reduce power usage some.
LCD - Had a constant backlight (see sibling comment for details), so there was little to no difference between black and anything else.
OLED/AMOLED - Black LEDs are actually turned off, instead of displaying a dark color, so we're back to it saving power - more even than CRTs did.
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#65I really wish auto dark mode (based on sunset time I believe) worked better on OSX. On my iPhone it works great and automatically switches to dark mode once the sun sets. On my MacBook it hardly ever remembers to switch across and I'm left with it constantly on light. Really frustrating.
f.lux is still a thing.
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#66No one seems to be mentioning the lighting of the room you're in, inside/outside, or the time of day. Ambient light is one of the primary factors that make light or dark mode better at a particular moment. See redshift to make light mode more tolerable at night.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities.
One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.)
TV's should do this too. With smart TV's/rokus/firesticks/whatever, what's the use of having a channel toggle? Repurpose that for one-button brightness shifts. I don't need my TV being a spotlight into my face when I turn it on to watch a movie at night with the lights dimmed.
Dark mode and red shift are helpful, but really this thread nails it... it's relative contrast that is the big eyestrain contributor. It should be as easy to change brightness as it is volume.
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#67Dark mode has somehow reached meme status on the Internet, not unlike bacon, in that everyone now essentially either "f'ing loves" it or is (jokingly) deemed an untermensch.
Personally, I was never into dark mode so this article feels vindicating; nor bacon, for that matter. I think I just committed several incidents of e-blasphemy.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities. One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.) TV's should do this too.…
> "One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons"
Microsoft copied this with the Surface Book (at least). And in typical Microsoft style, the dedicated brightness buttons control the brightness of the keyboard internal LEDs. Changing Windows' screen brightness is one of the metakeys + del/backspace, not indicated on them.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities. One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.) TV's should do this too.…
> Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.)
If the keyboard has media keys, then, generally speaking, F2 and F3 will be linked to brightness by default.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just change the brightness of the monitor twice a day.
...buried 2 or 3 menu layers deep, using a magic sequence of three buttons to handle all the up-down/left-right multi-level hierarchical menu navigation complexities. One of Apple's biggest innovations imho was to make brightness +/- two of the default keyboard buttons. Every keyboard should replace their F-keys with brightness by default (seriously, who uses F-keys? It's wasted real estate.) TV's should do this too.…
Back in the day of CRTs there used to be a dial on monitors to set the brighness. Have you only ever used Apple computers?