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It's good for phones that have OLED/AMOLED screens, since it saves quite a lot of battery life. It's also good if reading in bed (with the lights off). On a de
by afterburner 6y ago
It's good for phones that have OLED/AMOLED screens, since it saves quite a lot of battery life. It's also good if reading in bed (with the lights off).
On a desktop though I prefer to use blue-filters at night, and nothing during the day.
However for those sensitive to light I assume dark mode is a lifesaver.
- wruza 6y agoIt depends. I’m very light sensitive and can’t stop squinting even on cloudy day outside, but common light on dark makes my eyes get tired in minutes on any screen quality. Light scheme, night mode and brightness zero+ is what I’m using in bed. On subj, I wish such sites to publish their colorscheme css that would be easy to modify and drop into stylebot (iirc that extension name). It’s often a couple of colors and a background that have to be adjusted besides defaults to look good enough. We’re all different.
- blunte 6y agoHere's a tip - whether in light mode or dark mode, you can turn your screen brightness down.
- mssundaram 6y agoIf I read HN at night my screen brightness turned to the lowest is still too bright so I add an additional screen dimmer and use Dark Reader
- highmastdon 6y agoOn iOS there’s an option to “reduce white point”. This way you can get reallly low brightness and low contrast on your phone. I’m using it often during night. I suggest to add a accessibility shortcut to the triple click home to toggle it