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I am very light sensitive these days. I really need to stop reading when I go to bed. I'm an exceptionally light sleeper and very sensitive to ambient light changes. I refuse to bring my phone into the bedroom, see note below, but sometimes my MIL will text or accidentally text my wife (she's 65% into full blown dementia) and if that phone lights up, I'm screwed.
I've been up since 3am today, because it's useless to try to go back to sleep.
Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating.
Weirder - the popups from code project are in dark mode. As I type this, not in dark mode.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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charlieg wrote: Anyway, so today I've learned in Opera (browser of choice) that dark mode is website dependent. Well, that's elephanting irrritating.
Does CodeProject have a Dark Mode?
Anyway, it's really disconcerting when, after working an a Dark Mode IDE for some hours, you need to look something up and the the site has a put white (#FFFFFF) background! 
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I use a solarized light as opposed to solarized dark. But then I think I'm part mushroom, I like monitor glow.
A pale yellow or green works well for me. I'm opposed to dark modes for most things probably because I am old and crotchety (to reference a post above).
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.
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I'm with you, really terrible.
I feel like there's a lot I don't see in dark mode because not all shapes and colors are converted to some other color equally well.
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Depends on the context. Some web pages I'm just used to a light background. But, for many, many things it's all about dark mode. It's so much easier on the eyes. Stuff like VS Code, Sublime, my phone, Windows, and so on I'll never go back. I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: I still keep Light Mode in MS Word though because IMO they did a poor job on the dark theme.
No! MS implementing something poorly? Inconceivable! 😱
/s
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I despise it, but then I only run into it when I'm using AutoCAD. At least it can be turned off, but it isn't easy finding the place to do so.
Will Rogers never met me.
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In my case, it's like with the truth law
Quote: “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
I am at stage 3, as I like to use it for all my coding. To this degree that coding on white pages feels weird . It produces really less strain in the eyes. But doing any "paper work" like writing in Word, feels weird with black paper , that's why I prefer normal writing on white background. Therefore, in my case - it depends (i.d. Jeremy) ...
modified 13hrs ago.
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Who is the idiot who designed dark mode without a way to indicate which window has active focus by highlighting the title bar somehow? Sh*t - that was done way back in Win 3.1 or earlier, wasn't it?
Other than that, and many dark mode themes not having enough contrast by using dark text, it is OK by me.
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I don't. I feel like dark mode is generally harder on my eyes and somehow it is harder to find things in code with dark mode on. I don't know if that's a real thing.
I generally favor a mildly bright screen with night light on, but never in a dark room.
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While it's not my preference from a visual stand-point, I now have it activated on both my phone and this laptop for the same reason - battery life.
LCDs use the least power on white pixels, since you aren't powering the shutter which obscures the backlight.
OLEDs use the least power on a black pixel, since you aren't powering the LED which makes the light.
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We've gone full circle. The early (text only) VDU terminals were black background with green text (or, from one manufacturer, orange text); then someone decided to emulate paper - black text on white background; now you can choose.
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As jsc42 points out above, we've gone full circle. However, there's a good reason we abandoned green text on black backgrounds - unless you crank the brightness all the way up, there just isn't enough contrast.
OTOH, those who claim a bright background gives them a headache or makes their eyes burn are simply running their monitors with the brightness set way, WAY too high (showroom setting). The first thing I do when I get a new monitor is reduce the brightness; between the 3 monitors I have on my desk, the one with the highest brightness level (an actual TV) is set at 50% (contrast is at 75%). The other two (monitors) are set at 0 (contrast at 75% on one, and 40% for the other).
My code windows in VS are using a light gray background, not pure white. But everything else is still at its default setting.
Dark mode is just unreadable to me (especially on a bright and sunny day, with a lot of ambient light), but then, I suspect I'd have to crank the brightness all the way back up, and I never felt like d*cking around back-and-forth between settings. Plus, on a bright day, with a dark background, the dust on my monitor tends to be more visible than the text.
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Dooble Web Browser[^] (Never heard of it before, but it's there)
edit: Oh, and dead since 2017 apparently.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I also found the Dillo browser[^], but it looks like it is unsupported now too.
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raddevus wrote: Dillo browser
Not gonna say what that name reminded me of in the lounge. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's why that one never took off. 
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A browser that specializes in viewing 'pron'?
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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An electric ear-cleaner?
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Oh wait!! How could I have forgotten? Seriously.
DuckDuckGo has released their own web browser: Download the DuckDuckGo browser app[^]
Now, let's get crackin' on that G browser -- and no, Google Chrome doesn't count.
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raddevus wrote: Google Chrome doesn't count.
Crap, I was about to say GNU IceCat, but I suppose that would be in the same vein.
However, behold! I found one: Guardian Browser.
Turns out there's a list of 217 on GitHub.
Jeremy Falcon
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Dissenter.
I can't vouch for it however. There used to be a dissenter.com, but it seems to have been..."repurposed"?
And the fact that it's now on Softpedia makes it look rather suspicious.
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