I only use it at night, and never use pitch black as background, more like very dark grey.
Easier on the eyes and more damaging to it. Your pupils get dilated because of the dark background, but the white text burns your eyes out. It is similar to shooting a lazer in your eyes or looking at a solar eclipse. There's a reason the text you read "burns in" and you still see it for a few seconds when looking away.
screen: darkmode text
paper: lightmode text
simple as
it's because screens emit light
Paper reflects light as well moron. From the perspective of the eye there's no difference between a screen and a paper, as long as you keep the screen as dim as your room
.
at first glance this looks like your average IQfy response, but its actually written by generative AI - you can tell because it has nothing to do with OP
BBC worshipping, its not a zoomer exclusive thing, even boomers worship their pc being BLACK. BWC enjoyers are going extinct, nobody cares about productivity, about black text on white paper readability, or being in a well lit trad white room. they want to snort coke and goon to BNWO
It depends on the contrast in the dark mode obviously.
My dark mode is super hard to see, but my contrast is extremely low.
The same could be done with light mode.
>With GUI we started making the contrast better
no, white to black is always fhe same contrast, no matter which one is the foreground or background.
GUI's started out with white backgrounds because their first use was for publishing where people needed to see how something would look like when printed on a sheet of paper.
>genuinely citing dumb terminals
Fun fact: the programmers who actually used them gravitated to light themes when display technology improved.
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
>Richard Stallman: >I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode. I have X and GNOME installed, but I use them only occasionally.
/ourguy/
Yes, it is still a zoomer thing you fricking skid wannabe. >what folder am I in >what versions of the bourne shell am I using (instead of zsh with better completion and syntax highlighting like a normal person) >is my Bluetooth on? I can't believe this is a command you need to type out. >pinging le wikipedia to check your sick ping like a true haxxor >dude look I have more than one drive >date of when this screencap was taken >kernel module output with gamepad module conveniently removed prior as to not tip off other pseuds to what you actually use your computer for
At least the BreachForums "hackers" who got busted actually did some hacks. You can't even qualify as a scriptkiddie. You're just a moron. Speaking of which, I heard Kode With Klossy is still taking applicants. That might be something that interests you.
>always displayed, if I want absolute path it's four buttons away >never been an issue (used several times, went back to bash, ash, mksh within a day) >who uses bluetooth on a comfuser, and why don't you have daemons to do it for you? >? >?? >??? >I have no idea what that gibberish means, the frick is pseud? Alt form of goym? israelite?
and who the frick is klossy? Some internet troony that's the flavor of the month?
>why do zoomers love dark mode so much? it makes text hard to read
Social media culture. If you keep saying something is bad to other people they will start believing it. That's all I can think why there are lots of zoomers using dark mode.
I use light mode and I'm a "zoomer", I like the light, I'm not a fricking demon that lives in darkness.
Every zoomer I've work with that raves about dark mode (an actual conversation I've had several times, because... zoomers) had his screen brightness turned all the way up. I found that I actually preferred light mode after adjusting brightness/room lighting, even though most light color schemes are ugly.
The only time I really benefited from dark mode was when I got a fungal infection and my eyes were so baby b***h sensitive that it was the only way I could bear to use a screen.
not being able to turn on lights in your OWN fricking room is a humiliation ritual, you using the BLACKED theme out of cope to fit your molerat cave without lights is a massive humiliating experience
This is the real reason, everyone just lives in the dark now. If you're using your computer for work in the daytime in a brightly lit office then you want light mode. If you're using your phone or laptop in your blackout shades bedroom with no lights on from 5pm to 5am then you want dark mode. Everyone under age 40 is doing the second thing
Because they sit in dank smelly bedrooms devoid of natural light like this with all their devices at max brightness. Light mode for them is like looking at the sun.
why are there so many pussy free incels like this? >dude! im a gamer man! i love neon and dark mode! i love gaming! i have never seen a vegana outside of porn!
>no room light but devices on max brightness
I do this. The reason is that I want to completely forget about everything outside of the screens I'm looking at, it should be totally invisible and by means of both symbolism and out of sight, out of mind I have completely left "real life" behind and this is 100% the only way I can cope and the only time I feel any kind of peace of mind.
I use high contrast during the day and then dark mode with color shifting (night shift, f.lux, etc) during the night. I am boomer though, my eyes ain't wait it used to be
>be me in uni >making a mostly inconsequential presentation >slides were black with white text, but not too high of a contrast, shown on a tv >at the end, one boomer complains that the text was hard to read
It honestly caught me by surprise, I personally wouldn't be able to guess it's somehow hard to read or "hurts the eyes" or whatever, being the first time hearing that
if i run bright colors it causes burn in on my screen
my keyboard on my phone is white on black and the letters are permanently burned into the screen after a couple years
They never go outside, drape their windows and have dim rooms lit with RGB shit. They'd go blind otherwise. Which would be a shame cos it's the only organ they seem to use.
Because they're too stupid to not crank SDR brightness through the roof. Most people know next to nothing about display technology and eat up Samsung and Nvidia marketing like it's gospel.
it's not dark theme itself that's hard to read but it's the ones that are just white text on black background IQfy's Tomorrow theme is a good example of a good dark theme. i still mainly use Photon (also a good example of a light theme).
I'm having eye problems lately and black text on white background is a fricking nightmare for me. It's so fricking bright I can barely see text (I didn't experience something like that before), white text on dark background is currently easier for me to use. But I guess that if your eyes are healthy and you don't experience photophobia then maybe it's better to use light mode?
I also have eyesight problems but it's the opposite for me. When looking at white text on a black background it looks like the letters are "spilling" in all directions making them blurry and hard to read, while this is less prominent on black text on a white background. But the most pleasant for my eyes is a moderately dark background ie dark green and then something like gray text.
Corporations push for dark mode because it keeps people stuck to the screen longer:
- it decreases reading comhrehension/speed
- it increases battery life of modern phones
- it is more tolerable when used in darkness, e.g. in bed
And that means they can show more ads and collect more usage data.
>it decreases reading comhrehension/speed
This is actually true, read a few experiments on that. It's not major but it exists in the background.
You also lose attention much faster.
I fell for it a year and my eyesight got worse at a faster rate than before.
It does hurt your eyes. I feel for it due to peer pressure in a chat with zoomers that I befriended.
But my obsession with contrast, with media files and so on made read about about how our eyes work, what type of visual information we distinguish better and which one feeds less data to our sense decoders, how this is optimized and used by encoding to save storage space since humans cannot tell the difference anyway and so on.
tl;dr, using the white theme without a blinding nits setting is much better but it's all relative and depending on the surrounding illumination, if you work in a very bright office go ahead use 200-300+ nits.
In complete darkness above 200 will be a bit nasty.
>flashbang
only happens because you're using a phone with dark mode apps or if you're especially special, using a computer with dark mode themes on everything.
Light theme for browsing the web.
Dark theme for the terminal and text editor.
Syntax highlighting is horrendous on light theme. If you have minimal syntax highlighting, then it ought to be perfectly acceptable.
I hate that dark and light modes are almost always super high contrast close to pure black/white background. I work 8:00-16:00 so light mode is ok for that time but then when I'm on my PC in the evening I have to choose between blinding white background with comfortable to read text or black background with white text that hurts to read after seconds, reading a single IQfy post like this one using tomorrow theme burns the text into my retinas and I can still see it as overlay for few seconds after looking away
boomer here, dark mode is easier for the eyes
try getting glasses
try sunglasses
I AM A MILLENNIAL.I USE IT FOR EVERYTHING.
BABY BOOMER? have a nice day!
I only use it at night, and never use pitch black as background, more like very dark grey.
Easier on the eyes and more damaging to it. Your pupils get dilated because of the dark background, but the white text burns your eyes out. It is similar to shooting a lazer in your eyes or looking at a solar eclipse. There's a reason the text you read "burns in" and you still see it for a few seconds when looking away.
Paper reflects light as well moron. From the perspective of the eye there's no difference between a screen and a paper, as long as you keep the screen as dim as your room
.
Idiotic Black personmaggot.
Learn highschool physics and come back to me.
Hush, child.
I tought I was going crazy with that horizontal lines eye burn in. I even went to 2 eye doctors, both of them where like "idk"
>Why do normal people hate staring into the sun so much? It makes sunlight harder to see
at first glance this looks like your average IQfy response, but its actually written by generative AI - you can tell because it has nothing to do with OP
you are irredeemably moronic
>average element on screen
>100 nits
>direct sunlight
>1.6 billion nits
>looking at the road during day
>5,000 to 10,000 nits
>walking in a forest during the day, the light reflected unto your eyes from foliage, rays that fall through etc
>2,000 to 5,000 nits
blacked.com
screen: darkmode text
paper: lightmode text
simple as
it's because screens emit light
BBC worshipping, its not a zoomer exclusive thing, even boomers worship their pc being BLACK. BWC enjoyers are going extinct, nobody cares about productivity, about black text on white paper readability, or being in a well lit trad white room. they want to snort coke and goon to BNWO
>it makes text hard to read
see your eye doctor
It depends on the contrast in the dark mode obviously.
My dark mode is super hard to see, but my contrast is extremely low.
The same could be done with light mode.
yes and i do hate it but it depends on the display and ambient lighting
>zoomers
>dark mode
Yeah but that's a terminal. With GUI we started making the contrast better and somehow this idea of whitetext on black somehow came back.
>With GUI we started making the contrast better
no, white to black is always fhe same contrast, no matter which one is the foreground or background.
GUI's started out with white backgrounds because their first use was for publishing where people needed to see how something would look like when printed on a sheet of paper.
"light mode" only ever existed to simulate papers on a desk. most software nowadays is not document-based so following this convention is meaningless
>genuinely citing dumb terminals
Fun fact: the programmers who actually used them gravitated to light themes when display technology improved.
https://anders.unix.se/2015/10/28/screenshots-from-developers--unix-people-2002/
https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developers--2002-vs.-2015/
>Richard Stallman:
>I don’t know how to make a screenshot, because I normally use my computer in text-mode. I have X and GNOME installed, but I use them only occasionally.
/ourguy/
You need cataract surgery, Xer
>dark mode is a zoomer thing
stupid shithead frogisraelite
What is that ugly ass terminal?
>XS0Y
Yes, it is still a zoomer thing you fricking skid wannabe.
>what folder am I in
>what versions of the bourne shell am I using (instead of zsh with better completion and syntax highlighting like a normal person)
>is my Bluetooth on? I can't believe this is a command you need to type out.
>pinging le wikipedia to check your sick ping like a true haxxor
>dude look I have more than one drive
>date of when this screencap was taken
>kernel module output with gamepad module conveniently removed prior as to not tip off other pseuds to what you actually use your computer for
At least the BreachForums "hackers" who got busted actually did some hacks. You can't even qualify as a scriptkiddie. You're just a moron. Speaking of which, I heard Kode With Klossy is still taking applicants. That might be something that interests you.
>always displayed, if I want absolute path it's four buttons away
>never been an issue (used several times, went back to bash, ash, mksh within a day)
>who uses bluetooth on a comfuser, and why don't you have daemons to do it for you?
>?
>??
>???
>I have no idea what that gibberish means, the frick is pseud? Alt form of goym? israelite?
and who the frick is klossy? Some internet troony that's the flavor of the month?
Terminal: White on black;
Text editor: Black on White (even on terminal editors like vim)
Simple as.
>it makes text hard to read
Have you tried not being blind?
>dark mode harder to read than light mode
you're a super moron
Because all modern light themes fell for the low contrast grey text with pastel colors on almost pure white background.
>why do zoomers love dark mode so much? it makes text hard to read
Boomers came up with the idea ... so, you're welcome.
I wanna get into dark mode but browser and explorer flickers for a millisecond everytime I refresh them
anyone knows how to fix this?
>why do zoomers love dark mode so much? it makes text hard to read
Social media culture. If you keep saying something is bad to other people they will start believing it. That's all I can think why there are lots of zoomers using dark mode.
I use light mode and I'm a "zoomer", I like the light, I'm not a fricking demon that lives in darkness.
>being a contrarian about dark mode
a contrarian about dark mode
You are the one changing default settings.
>using leebait images in the op
Bad eyesight = hypersensitivity.
t. not a zoomer, but still have to use dark mode.
Every zoomer I've work with that raves about dark mode (an actual conversation I've had several times, because... zoomers) had his screen brightness turned all the way up. I found that I actually preferred light mode after adjusting brightness/room lighting, even though most light color schemes are ugly.
The only time I really benefited from dark mode was when I got a fungal infection and my eyes were so baby b***h sensitive that it was the only way I could bear to use a screen.
>mid 2000's ricing did not die off
>modern screens at max brightness
It's a combination of edgelord style and tech illiteracy/lazyness. On the plus side you can rick roll them with white images or flashing gifs.
If you do this with screens in the dark, your eyesight is perma-fricked
not being able to turn on lights in your OWN fricking room is a humiliation ritual, you using the BLACKED theme out of cope to fit your molerat cave without lights is a massive humiliating experience
This is the real reason, everyone just lives in the dark now. If you're using your computer for work in the daytime in a brightly lit office then you want light mode. If you're using your phone or laptop in your blackout shades bedroom with no lights on from 5pm to 5am then you want dark mode. Everyone under age 40 is doing the second thing
>light mode
>low brightness
What about 10BIT color dept?
whitebois can cope and seethe all they want but BLACK theme is simply superior
I use light mode on most things because it makes it easier to pretend it's still 2005
Because they sit in dank smelly bedrooms devoid of natural light like this with all their devices at max brightness. Light mode for them is like looking at the sun.
why are there so many pussy free incels like this?
>dude! im a gamer man! i love neon and dark mode! i love gaming! i have never seen a vegana outside of porn!
they fell for the being a gaymer is cool meme
They never grew up. They picked up gaming and gaming aesthetics as a kid and haven't changed or developed as a person since
>no room light but devices on max brightness
I do this. The reason is that I want to completely forget about everything outside of the screens I'm looking at, it should be totally invisible and by means of both symbolism and out of sight, out of mind I have completely left "real life" behind and this is 100% the only way I can cope and the only time I feel any kind of peace of mind.
I use high contrast during the day and then dark mode with color shifting (night shift, f.lux, etc) during the night. I am boomer though, my eyes ain't wait it used to be
80s alarm clocks used "dark mode"
>go to fat camp
>they give us an alarm clock
>mine is a comfy red alarm clock
>roomate gets a fricking blue one
>fills the room with blue light 24/7
Because it looks cooler and I don't want to be blinded all the time.
>be me in uni
>making a mostly inconsequential presentation
>slides were black with white text, but not too high of a contrast, shown on a tv
>at the end, one boomer complains that the text was hard to read
It honestly caught me by surprise, I personally wouldn't be able to guess it's somehow hard to read or "hurts the eyes" or whatever, being the first time hearing that
if i run bright colors it causes burn in on my screen
my keyboard on my phone is white on black and the letters are permanently burned into the screen after a couple years
dark mode makes me constantly sleepy, so I run light mode even on default dark mode apps.
>green text is easier to read against a light blue or peach background
what?
your homosexual zoomer peers will make fun of you for doing literally anything different/outside of accepted group think parameters.
Were monochrome displays bad for your eyes?
We’ve known since the 90’s that “dark mode” actually decreases reading comprehension. It’s a trick, don’t do it.
boomer here, i've spent a lifetime looking at video screens
dark mode is way easier on the eyes
f.lux master race
>f.lux master race
my homie!
I prefer lightmode on my phone, because of reflections.
On computers I prefer darkmode for programming, because it's comfy. But for browsing I don't care.
They never go outside, drape their windows and have dim rooms lit with RGB shit. They'd go blind otherwise. Which would be a shame cos it's the only organ they seem to use.
Not at all true. I also use my liver
Because they're too stupid to not crank SDR brightness through the roof. Most people know next to nothing about display technology and eat up Samsung and Nvidia marketing like it's gospel.
it's not dark theme itself that's hard to read but it's the ones that are just white text on black background IQfy's Tomorrow theme is a good example of a good dark theme. i still mainly use Photon (also a good example of a light theme).
I'm having eye problems lately and black text on white background is a fricking nightmare for me. It's so fricking bright I can barely see text (I didn't experience something like that before), white text on dark background is currently easier for me to use. But I guess that if your eyes are healthy and you don't experience photophobia then maybe it's better to use light mode?
Your monitor has a brightness feature. Learn to use it. You know how numbers work right? Bigger number = more hurty eyes
I also have eyesight problems but it's the opposite for me. When looking at white text on a black background it looks like the letters are "spilling" in all directions making them blurry and hard to read, while this is less prominent on black text on a white background. But the most pleasant for my eyes is a moderately dark background ie dark green and then something like gray text.
Corporations push for dark mode because it keeps people stuck to the screen longer:
- it decreases reading comhrehension/speed
- it increases battery life of modern phones
- it is more tolerable when used in darkness, e.g. in bed
And that means they can show more ads and collect more usage data.
>it decreases reading comhrehension/speed
This is actually true, read a few experiments on that. It's not major but it exists in the background.
You also lose attention much faster.
I fell for it a year and my eyesight got worse at a faster rate than before.
It does hurt your eyes. I feel for it due to peer pressure in a chat with zoomers that I befriended.
But my obsession with contrast, with media files and so on made read about about how our eyes work, what type of visual information we distinguish better and which one feeds less data to our sense decoders, how this is optimized and used by encoding to save storage space since humans cannot tell the difference anyway and so on.
tl;dr, using the white theme without a blinding nits setting is much better but it's all relative and depending on the surrounding illumination, if you work in a very bright office go ahead use 200-300+ nits.
In complete darkness above 200 will be a bit nasty.
Lowering brightness also reduces contrast, gaylord, that makes text even harder to read
it increases it, you fricking zoomer moron
because the eyestrain from the flashbang is horrendous
>flashbang
only happens because you're using a phone with dark mode apps or if you're especially special, using a computer with dark mode themes on everything.
Light theme for browsing the web.
Dark theme for the terminal and text editor.
Syntax highlighting is horrendous on light theme. If you have minimal syntax highlighting, then it ought to be perfectly acceptable.
I use dark mode with the night mode setting enabled at all times and adjust the intensity depending on the time.
I don't use darkmode because I hate seeing my reflection.
>just get an anti-glare monitor
Not an option.
you are overprescribed, get lower prescription glasses for closeup.
I hate that dark and light modes are almost always super high contrast close to pure black/white background. I work 8:00-16:00 so light mode is ok for that time but then when I'm on my PC in the evening I have to choose between blinding white background with comfortable to read text or black background with white text that hurts to read after seconds, reading a single IQfy post like this one using tomorrow theme burns the text into my retinas and I can still see it as overlay for few seconds after looking away