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If everyone thought like this, I suppose the author wouldn't have felt the need to write the article.

I've been using light themes for some time now, after years of dark mode-ing everything. It actually works better for my eyes, at least where I'm able to set the background to be just a bit off-white. And like the author, when I've pasted screenshots into discussions, I've received jokes about my choice. You know, the gifs about people in dark rooms being blasted with light from their monitor. And ironically jokes about eyes burning, when this is friendlier to my eyes than dark mode was.

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My comment was aimed both at the author and the "dark mode lobby" they are complaining about.

Seriously, it's your computer, just use whatever setup you prefer. If someone comments, make fun of them for caring about what you use on your machine.

You're not getting it. People don't make fun, they complain about images using light theme, supposedly because it's hard on their eyes, dark mode now considered by many the neutral/inclusive choice. Which is bullshit, especially for people with astigmatism.

I have astigmatism and 24/7 dark mode. Let’s not generalise.

Dark mode produces the halation effect in many people that have astigmatism. This varies between individuals, much like the severity scale for astigmatism.

I said that dark mode is not a neutral/inclusive choice, especially for people with astigmatism. If dark mode doesn't affect you, good for you, but the statement is factually correct.

The article is making fun of them. Is that not obvious?

> Seriously, it's your computer, just use whatever setup you prefer

The problem is that many websites simply turn on dark mode without checking what my OS/browser is configured for. That is really annoying.

It's almost as annoying as the fact that nearly every application and website uses light theme by default and often don't even provide a dark theme (Hacker News included).

While I don't discount the possibility of their existence, I've yet to personally encounter an application or web site that only has a dark theme, so the "dark mode only" complaint rings like the perennial "War on Christmas" rant.

The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user, so "just use whatever setup you prefer" doesn't work.

This is particularly hard now when many sites use images of program code in order to get syntactic highlighting, because your page rewriting extensions do nothing.

> The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user

No, it isn't. The article is complaining about people who complain about the author's choice of light mode. Nowhere does it mention any site or application that only supports dark mode.

> The point of the article, which I hope you did in fact read, is that some sites force dark mode on the user

You mean like just about literally every website (except a few that got shit for being 90s-era design) that forced bright backgrounds on users for the better part of 15 years or so before "dark mode" became a thing?

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