Post #3328826

2026-06-15 21:04 UTC

Waddaya mean crusade? Have you accidentally seen of my other tirades? Anyway: I dislike change. I know it’s not a good argument, but I don’t like change. I don’t have a lot against dark mode, on a phone. But… Running an IDE or word processor in dark mode screams unprofessional to me. I work in a well lit office environment, during the day. In a bright office I struggle reading in dark mode. Using dark mode because you “don’t want to have your eyes scorched”, is the argument of a hobbyist, working in their bedroom. I like to view my end product on screen. I’m not printing documents in dark mode, and presentations are more easily viewable with a light background. It’s not an argument for or against dark mode, but dark mode seems like that time, back in the 90s, when people insisted on using a blue background for word processing. We’re just going in circles on this.

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@tunetardis@piefed.ca 2026-06-15 22:20

Dark mode to me harkens back to the days of terminals and mainframes. Light mode was popularized by the likes of Apple who believed in the wysiwyg philosophy. A document on screen should resemble its counterpart on paper. But dark does seem to be in vogue once again. Something I did not see coming, much like how vinyl came back—which also tends to be a dark medium now that I think of it, though I can’t think of any reason it really needs to be? Hmm…

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@rustyj@lemmy.world 2026-06-16 00:38

I was having legitimate eye strain issues before using dark mode in more places. I also only have vision in one eye, so that factor is in the mix. Anyhow, for me, dark mode is more of an accessibility tool, not “some hobbyist thing”.

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@heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 2026-06-16 04:22

I sometimes do emacs over a terminal because ofc, but some of the font colors are hard to see in dark mode.

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