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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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I'm sorry, I cant read this because I made the mistake of opening CodeProject, which doesn't have a dark mode, at night and now I'm blind.
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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 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.
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I always found that reducing brightness to the point where the screen is no longer glaring at me also reduce contrast too much for my comfort. Dark mode, on the other hand, is not glaring at me but still maintaining a high contrast.
Yes, at least for coding, this is partly because of my editor theme preferences. Though I think the cognitive effect of brighter-colored elements foregrounding and enlarging themselves against darker colors, and vice versa, also helps.
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As I say with music: "Every moment has its music and every music has its moment", I like both modes, each one in its concrete situation.
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I do not like dark mode because I can't focus, I have no explanation for that. It makes me dumber.
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Maybe it stimulates your circadian rhythm to a "sleeping" pattern.
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What is dark mode?
>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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Black background and if you are lucky white text.
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I prefer light grey text rather than pure white and (very) dark gray rather than black. I am slightly photosensitive and prone to sensory overload, I found that mild lighting and mild contrast help me a lot.
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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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I like dark mode because it matches my mood.
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I like dark mode because I get migraines and the light sensitivity is brutal.
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I don't like dark mode as it's too dark, and I'm afraid of it.
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I use dark-mode because I'm a tight-arse and the battery lasts longer, even though I prefer the aesthetic of light-mode.
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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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Yup, the edit nails it.
For LCD, light-mode uses less energy.
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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.
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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!
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Interesting. Thanks for the refresher. I did read about that when OLED was still new, but forgot most of the actual implementation. 
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I like dark mode because it matches the dark circles under my eyes. 
Jeremy Falcon
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