A photo looking up at a residential building at least 6 stories tall. It is night time, and the vast majority of windows are dark. The windows of one residence are slightly lit. Then, the window of another residence has a light that is extremely bright blaring out of it. The caption reads, “When I open a web page that forces a white background.”

  • Nova (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    yes 1000%, I’ve also been shifting my desktop (running plasma) to be a sort of glowwave theme that has very high contrast yet isn’t harsh on my eyes. It’s very nice!

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I’ve now come out the otherside. In this latest push to get dark-mode offerings everywhere I think too many color choices have become hard on my eyes. I realized it’s been giving me eye strain headaches.

    I’ve got my OS set to dark mode but there are several apps and sites that I’ve switched back over to light-mode. And as I’ve been weeding out bad dark-modes I’ve found that I’ve been able to turn my screen brightness down a bit which further helps with eye strain.

  • ghostOfRoux();@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Dark mode all day and redshift set based on the sunrise and sunset on both desktop and phone. I won’t go back.

    Also I’m gonna do another suggestion for Dark Reader browser extension. It’s great!

  • HipPriest@kbin.social
    7·
    1 year ago

    I use dark mode late at night, especially using amoled screens under artificial lights or with all the lights off in bed. I don’t like using it when I’m outside, it seems off somehow.

  • LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Dark modes and blue light filters. My parents don’t understand how I can stand to look at shit with those settings but idk how they can’t. I also have way more screentime than them though because I work in IT. I get eye strain so fuckin easy.

    • Pirky@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Saaame. The only time I turn off the blue light filter for my computer is if I’m editing photos for color accuracy. But I turn it back on the moment I finish editing.
      I tried introducing f.lux to my mom, but she hated it when the filter finally started to kick in. My dad is no better; I feel he keeps his monitor on at full brightness regardless of how dark it is in the room. It physically hurts to look at his monitor.

  • Lhianna@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Dark mode all the time and from 10pm on my phone switches to grayscale to help me put it away.

  • Ryan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I’ve been using dark mode for everything for at least 2 years. I also use night shift to adjust the screen to a warmer color temp. I’ve dealt with chronic migraines for years, and light was a big trigger.

    • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Light is a big trigger for me as well, so dark mode for everything. The lights in my office are super bright… best I can do is dim my screens, so I have backlighting set to zero.

      Well someone changed the brightness/backlight on all my screens to 100% to screw with me, and I thought it was just, you know, me being overly sensitive? It happens sometimes. I didn’t assume someone would change my screens, why would I? It’s a pain in the ass to do…

      I had like 3 weeks of intense daily headaches and more migraines than normal, before I realized what happened and changed it back. Apparently my health/wellbeing is a joke. So glad I’m getting out of here.

  • open_world@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I use light mode on everything during the day and dark mode for everything at night. I use my device’s automatic system theme switcher to accomplish this, as well as the Dark Reader browser extension on Firefox.

  • ptrck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    I use everything on light mode all the time. Mostly to annoy my fellow developers.

  • letsgo@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I tried dark mode, including all the extensions and OS settings, but there are way too many times Windows thinks that stabbing me in the eyes with a brilliant full white screen is just the thing to do. The problem with dark mode is that to make the colours come out the brightness has to be cranked up.

    Gave up on dark mode after too many of those stabs and just run in light mode now with the brightness turned down.

  • gronjo45@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    My retinas getting scorched out into the wee hours of the morning definitely drew me to DarkReader so I could just have an easy switch to nullify that decision. When I switched from the Microsoft Spyware OS, it was a relief to be able to globally enable dark mode with a key binding in my other windows so I could spend more than 5 seconds in the Windows settings without staring into Doc Ock’s pocket sun…

    I can’t imagine how people can use a computer all day and not have damage to their vision without dark readers :D

  • smooth_tea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    I insist on not using it. Instead of inverting colors, just turn down your brightness. Light text on dark background actually causes more eye strain.