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I don't know many people my age who can still handle dark mode.

It was easy for me many years ago. I looked at command lines all day and no problem.

Now I see blurry lines for 10 minutes all around me if I have to spend any length of time in a command line interface, or look at an article in dark mode.

This is, unfortunately, an accessibility issue, not a design issue.

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I'm older, my eyes are getting pretty bad, and I have to have dark mode. This is why data on this is important.

Much of it depends on the room you’re in currently.

I'm the same way... 42 now and my eyes aren't the same. Definitely macular degeneration. Dark mode really helps me.

I'd say this is why we need software to respect accessibility and configurability. We didn't need "Dark Mode" in Windows 95 because we could configure the crap out of our native widgets. Then using the web as an application platform became a thing, accessibility was jettisoned in the name of "muh design!" and all personal computing has suffered for it.

Second this. Aged. Dark mode and command prompt is less tiresome on eye than white.

> in a command line interface

It's perfectly reasonable to use dark-on-light in a terminal emulator; Apple's one defaults to it, for instance.

I'm older and I prefer dark mode, whether for CLI or GUI. It reduces eyestrain for me.

I'm older and I strongly prefer light mode. Dark mode irritates me in part because it's harder for me to read and in part because it depresses me.

What contrast are you using when you get those problems? I typically use 80% grey on black.

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