The light/dark mode game...
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
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I dislike dark mode because it reminds me of the old Amber screens.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated. I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
MarkTJohnson wrote:
Amber screens
I hadn't thought about those in a long, long time. I've used both green and amber screens. Between the two, I thought amber was much better. I remember one of the secretaries working at my high school hired me to help her out with some word processing (I was a fast typist, a stickler for accuracy, knew my way around WordPerfect and was proficient enough to correct her own grammatical errors), and she had one of those amber monitors. Provided I adjusted the brightness so the individual letters wouldn't "bleed", I thought it was rather pleasant to work with. And she paid quite well. :-) I don't remember exactly the amount, but she paid me per page, and she almost regretted giving me the job 'cuz I "cost her a lot". On the other hand, she got her work done in no time, and being paid by the page, it really didn't matter I how fast I was, it would've ended up costing her the same. Win-win.
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I like dark mode because I don't like KGB interrogatories with a lamp pointed at my face.
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I find most people just buy a monitor and don't adjust it in any way, shape or form. I tend to reduce the brightness on my monitors (and phone) as much as possible, and I don't get eye strain or headaches. I can immediately spot a phone or monitor running at full brightness - it's like staring at the sun. Why people don't realize they can control that, I don't know. At least phones tend to have adaptive brightness, but I still reduce it beyond what it chooses.
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I find most people just buy a monitor and don't adjust it in any way, shape or form. I tend to reduce the brightness on my monitors (and phone) as much as possible, and I don't get eye strain or headaches. I can immediately spot a phone or monitor running at full brightness - it's like staring at the sun. Why people don't realize they can control that, I don't know. At least phones tend to have adaptive brightness, but I still reduce it beyond what it chooses.
I do but black is still darker than white. Of 2 million pixels if 70% is white, even with lower brightness, it's still a lot more than 70% dark and only the relevant 30% trying to pierce my skull through my eyeballs.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
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I like dark mode on my phone as it makes the screen crisper. I dislike dark mode on my computer as it makes the colors weird.
You know, I just realized I never went looking for dark mode on my phone. Turns out if I search for "dark" under Settings, only the messaging app supports it. And I actually kinda like it...but everything else remains on a white background. This is on Android 9. I'm guessing newer versions (and recent iPhones) have better support for it.
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You know, I just realized I never went looking for dark mode on my phone. Turns out if I search for "dark" under Settings, only the messaging app supports it. And I actually kinda like it...but everything else remains on a white background. This is on Android 9. I'm guessing newer versions (and recent iPhones) have better support for it.
My wife is having troubles with her battery usage and dark mode improved her battery life by about 20%. Not bad.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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Black background and if you are lucky white text.
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my bad: forgot the :)
>64 It’s weird being the same age as old people. Live every day like it is your last; one day, it will be.
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Dark mode makes the voices in my head louder ... :~
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
I dislike dark mode because there is enough darkness in this world without my adding to it.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
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Is that the Summoning Darkness or the Guarding Darkness? :)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
It's a floating eyeball with a curly tail, so Summoning Dark, I think. ;)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
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I like black text in dark mode, because it weeds out crappy developers who aren't serious.
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Incidentally, this was told as a trick in resume writing. Sometimes back it was reported that a candidate got an interview call, and ultimately landed a job in one of the top companies, and she had shared her trick. This candidate has written her profile and projects as usual, with black letters on white background. But also had written all the AI-ML-DataScience keywords in white text on white background - these would not be printed, but the resume-screening software in the big companies would recognise these buzzwords, that she had worked on those technologies, and would immediately shortlist her for interview. Neat trick in fooling that software.
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Is that really the case? I mean, no matter the amount of bright or dark colors being displayed, the backlight is still on just the same... [Edit] I wasn't thinking about OLED, where each pixel emits its own light.
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
I like dark mode because our renovated office space has LED lighting which is much brighter than before, and light text on a dark background is easier for me to read with my visual issues. [bit of a run-on sentence, but that was a requirement]
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
I like dark mode because I spent a lot of money on an OLED monitor.
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
I like dark mode because I am a vampire and have light sensitivity!
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Let's play the "I like/dislike dark mode game". The rules are simple, you get to state in one sentence the most important reason you like or dislike light or dark mode. You get to add one sentence only, not entire paragraphs. Be funny. Be serious. It's up to you. Just stay civil and don't start a religious war over someone else's preference. I'll start: I dislike dark mode because all I can see on a bright sunny afternoon is the dust on my monitor. Your turn.
"Yesss... Give in to the Dark Side!" Nope. Not me.
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Don't you mean OLED? Based on my (quick) readup, OLED is the one that has the individual pixels emitting their own light. Whereas it's LCD that has an "always-on" backlight.
Nope. A low energy image displayed on an OLED is black, since none of the (light-emitting) pixels are emitting light. A low energy image displayed on an LCD is white, since none of the (light-stopping) shutters are powered. The backlight is a given cost, but to get a dark pixel requires that we polarize the light from the backlight such that it cannot pass through the display. On the types of displays found on old watches, calculators etc, the segments appear black because the segment is powered and the light from the environment cannot pass through the display to then reflect on the back of it and return to our eyes. Colour LCDs have a Red, a Green and a Blue channel (passive) filter for each pixel as well as a(n active) shutter for each of the channels. So a fully red image uses as much power as a fully green image or a fully blue image. You can get higher contrast ratios on OLEDs because there's less bleed-through from adjacent pixels and because emitting no light works better than turning an LCD shutter on. I don't know if OLEDs are similar to regular LEDs, in which similar brightness for different colours requires a different amount of power. Blue LEDs for instance, are considerably brighter for a given wattage than red ones. As an interesting side-note, LEDs can be used to *detect* light!
