I get headaches if I read white text on a dark background for too long, and my understanding is that about half of the population of the planet has astigmatism to some degree or other
i like the way dark mode looks but if i use it too long it gets physically painful in the form of headaches, i generally don’t use apps that only have dark modes as a result, unless i can make a custom theme for it, then i will more often than not make a light theme for it. or i’ll make a theme that automatically updates the colors based on what i choose in my system settings, which is something i’ve done for Lemmy and a few other things, but yeah
Doesn’t look like the laptop they tested, the Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FA, uses OLED. So yeah it isn’t gonna make a difference since you’re still lighting the full backlight. But it makes even more of a difference on phones, since their processor is less powerful by comparison.
But dark mode just looks better. Plus it uses less energy for unnecessary brightness, at least on mobile.
For me it’s just astigmatism
https://zapier.com/blog/dark-mode-bad-productivity/
https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-d2f8359bb46a
I get headaches if I read white text on a dark background for too long, and my understanding is that about half of the population of the planet has astigmatism to some degree or other
i like the way dark mode looks but if i use it too long it gets physically painful in the form of headaches, i generally don’t use apps that only have dark modes as a result, unless i can make a custom theme for it, then i will more often than not make a light theme for it. or i’ll make a theme that automatically updates the colors based on what i choose in my system settings, which is something i’ve done for Lemmy and a few other things, but yeah
edit: sorry, when i originally saved that medium article a couple of years ago there was no paywall, now there is, so here’s the same article archived https://archive.is/20220807164035/https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-accessibility-issues-than-it-solves-d2f8359bb46a
photon has a dark theme.
negligible difference in energy consumption
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/dark-mode-laptop-battery-life/
Doesn’t look like the laptop they tested, the Asus ZenBook 13 UX333FA, uses OLED. So yeah it isn’t gonna make a difference since you’re still lighting the full backlight. But it makes even more of a difference on phones, since their processor is less powerful by comparison.