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.”
I use dark reader. It allows you to get dark theme on sites that normally don’t have it. Its now the first plugin I install when setting up a web browser.
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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!
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.
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.
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.