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

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 8 months ago

photon has a dark theme.

[–] phuntis@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

negligible difference in energy consumption

https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/dark-mode-laptop-battery-life/

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

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.