Dark mode is for programmers that have already lost most of their vision. Change my mind.
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So you have people that spend lots of time on screens trying to help prevent your eye sight loss?
And this is bad why?
What I mean by this is literally dark mode is harder to use than not using it.
My theory is this: darkmode - diffrenciating differences between things, letters, etc - instead of seeing the letters on the white screen, you have to hunt through a sea of black to find them, and every time you do, your eyes are surrounded by black, which makes it harder for the eyes to adjust to actual read the white.
what happens to me anyway, is I'm overwhelmed visually, feel like i'm getting very angry (and i'm extremely calm, even keeled and peaceful,) and then I find the switch to normal colors and can use the thing again.
Interesting! Maybe I should switch back to light mode for a bit to see if my mood changes. You really notice a difference in your mood?
give it a go, I'd be curious to see what your results are, actually.
I’ve been using dark mode for about a year. Only used light mode before that. Just switched it back from my phone settings to see if the results are different.
as far as additional controls go in the experiment:
I don't use CFL/Neon/LED lights in my dwelling, only incandescent full spectrum bulbs.
LED's are actually brutal on eyesight.
So I have one or two lamps on, even though it's evening time. Uncertain if that makes any difference, just yet.
All light bulbs emit radiation. It’s called light.
yes but light from incandescents is a different part of the EM spectrum.
Are you claiming it’s radiation outside of the visible light spectrum? What sort of radiation exactly?
no, just that they're different than incandescent, and harder on the eyes. although bulbs that have bluetooth stuff in them, like the phillips HUE, do indeed output 2.4ghz radiation, which is invisible. I did not make the video I linked above.
https://donklipstein.com/ledc.html
(this is interesting, and has a lot of history and tech details about lighting.)
this is not as interesting.
They’re not harmful. Cordless phones also emit 2.4 ghz radiation and they’ve been around for like what? 2 or 3 decades?
depends on exposure amounts, output power envelope, frequency, etc.
2.4ghz is the same roughly that the microwave oven uses.
5ghz+ will penetrate less into the skin and cranial tissue, but still has an affect on red blood cells, blood vessels, and so on.
2.4ghz will basically dehydrate you.
You've never gotten a leg cramp from having a phone in your pocket all day ?
Cordless phones used 400-900mhz, until the mid 90s.
Ok well it’s been 30 years since then, and ppl aren’t going blind or getting dehydrated from talking on their cordless phones. I think you’re being a bit schizo tbh.
But no, I carry a phone every day and I don’t get leg cramps from it.
I'm mitigating personal risk, and noticing I enjoy life a lot more without all that stuff. Nothing "schizophrenic" about it.
That's a very misused word, among people 15-30, these days, for some reason. It slights actual people with the situation, I think.
It’s not meant literally, but I think you know that. If your reasoning is to detach from computers and the internet, I think that’s fine. But if you think ppl are losing their sight or becoming dehydrated, or whatever from it, then that’s a bit schizo.
my reasoning is to make my life more enjoyable. I've always been electromagnetically sensitive. When the iPhone came out, I could feel the data in my wrist. That's a really uncomfortable sensation, if you've never felt it before.
As a small kid, If you turned a TV on in a room, even if it was on the other floor of the house, I could hear the high pitched wine of the flyback transformer. Even with the TV muted entirely, or volume at 0.
I don’t believe electromagnetic sensitivity is real. I’m p sure I’ve read studies that subjected ppl to it and they couldn’t tell one way or the other.
I dunno, there are some people who really seem to be sensitive to a lot of stuff.
I definitely know what Ringo is talking about with the high-pitched whine of CRT screens turning on...That was annoying. Kind of felt like a little static shock in my ears.
That’s a sound, that’s not electromagnetic radiation.
If you talk to any old ham radio operator, they'll tell you about "RF burn" or "RF in the shack," where improperly grounded equipment or being too close to antennas during transmission can cause burns.
Granted, that's at a way higher power output than most consumer devices (a hundred watts or so at a lower frequency versus 100 milliwatts max for phones and most access points).
I don't actually know anyone personally who can prove that they're sensitive to 2.4GHz, but the body is susceptible to RF and microwave radiation at some level.
It is, but it’s the difference between using a furnace to heat your home and lighting yourself on fire.
I've been this way my whole life, even before I knew what it was. It's real.
You think it’s real. Some people also sincerely believe they’re being gangstalked.
some of the people that think they're being gangstalked actually are. That's a whole different topic. I'm not one of them, though. Fortunately.
What makes something real? Empirical evidence? Belief? Subjective evidence? It is different for every person.
Digging some college Chemistry out of the back of my brain.. 2.4 GHz is the resonant frequency of the water molecule, meaning 100% of the energy is absorbed and converted to heat.
Put anything containing water into a microwave, and it heats up. Put anything without water, like paper, in a microwave, and nothing happens.
Other molecules have their own resonant frequencies. I remember reading an article about a pharma company using radio waves around 200 MHz to interfere with brain cancer growth. That 200 MHz frequency was just right to heat up some protien the cancer needed and prevent it from participating in the next reaction.
The vast majority of radio waves seem harmless, and too weak to cause much heating, but that makes you wonder.
I don’t think there’s much to wonder about. Almost everyone is surrounded by microwave radiation every single day, ppl aren’t going blind from it.
ding ding ding. Yes. That's why The GE Range Oven, and other stuff like that which eventually became the magnetron, operate at roughly 2.4ghz.
They convert water molecules into heat.
Now it gets weirder when you factor in that vaccinated people are also radio receptive to the graphene oxide, in the shots.
Or so to say, "The plot, thickens."
That's cool about that study.
A few years ago, I almost built a modified rife type machine with a plasma tube, and was going to hook it up to a signal generator.
Wifi also works at 2.4ghz.
I haven't used wifi for years.
The falloff rate of the power envelope is very localized to the receiving device. IE, the phone or laptop draws and attenuates the signal strength TO the device.
I'm way happier using ethernet anyway, it's much faster. Never liked wireless. Tried to get into it for years, but never found it reliable for moving large files around, and so on.
red and infrared light amongst other things (in the white LEDs).
I’ve never heard this before but the warning labels are very interesting!
warning labels where? :) What gets really interesting is when you realize the military has microwave based weapons.
like this:
and they do scramble DNA.
One reason I did it is because I have a privacy screen protector on and I’ve always been worried about white making “peeping” easier for cameras and people looking over my screen. Not sure if this is true, but white does seem to be easier on the eyes. Definitely makes “using a screen” easier to notice and less anon.
interesting! i'd never thought about cameras outside reading my phone. about 3 years ago, I decided to just stop using mine completely.
I got a 2 way pager that can do texts or emails, but hardly use it. Just confine computer time to my laptop, and that's the end of it.
it's nice walking around in public without a dinging microwave device in your pocket. really simplifies a lot of things.
the closest i've gotten to explaining it so far is akin to:
Think of it as looking for something in the dark, versus looking for the small change in the all white screen, during the day. Dark mode harder mentally.
That’s a good point. I use my phone at work all day and I’m on the road all the time. At gas stations, food joints, homes, businesses. Lots of cameras and lots of access for others to view my screen if I’m not careful. So I put a screen protector on and dark mode to make it nearly impossible for folks to read over my shoulder.
Personal effects it has on me never occurred to me though.
Great thought. I’m playing around with light mode now to see how I like it, but I will keep on the privacy screen no matter what.
I worked at Target many years ago and remember befriending the security guy. Watched him zoom in on folks looking up prices on Amazon and some people sexting at Target. Weird shit, but made me uncomfortable to be in public with a viewable screen ever again.
That’s a good point. I use my phone at work all day and I’m on the road all the time. At gas stations, food joints, homes, businesses. Lots of cameras and lots of access for others to view my screen if I’m not careful. So I put a screen protector on and dark mode to make it nearly impossible for folks to read over my shoulder.
Personal effects it has on me never occurred to me though.
Great thought. I’m playing around with light mode now to see how I like it, but I will keep on the privacy screen no matter what.
I worked at Target many years ago and remember befriending the security guy. Watched him zoom in on folks looking up prices on Amazon and some people sexting at Target. Weird shit, but made me uncomfortable to be in public with a viewable screen ever again.
:-)
Interesting.
It makes sense.
:-)
Yay!
That would be weird to see that in person. A few years ago I wrote an article about the advances in the CCTV network. LOL. It's a pretty weird scenario. We actually have more cameras here in the United States, than they do in mainland China, believe it or not.
I don’t doubt it. Shits wack out here. We think we are free, but many invasive tactics are used against us against our will.
I have a video for you.
I’m going to watch the first 20 min of this and the rest tomorrow. This is getting to scary to fast.
yeah its a pretty serious video. but worth understanding.
PS- Zee, just like Stu Peters and all the other real talkative figureheads, are all controlled opposition. They're all part of the club.
But the data in the video, is accurate and relevant.
I like dark mode for websites.
I'm glad it works for you. Totally can't hang here.
What I'm wondering too though, is if there's a correlation between people that like dark mode, and their eyesight.
The armchair theory here is people with less than 20/20 vision benefit from darkmode, but I'm not sure exactly why yet.
There may still be hope for me yet. Light mode here.
I thought you would. Interesting point of note:
Analog gauges in airplanes, and cars, light up at night. No "dark mode." maybe in some of these newfangled cars, but not in anything I've driven.
How are you this fine evening?
first reddit like discussion i have seen here
I sincerely hate reddit. But I hope you're having a nice evening. :) How are you?
oh i hate reddit too generally, but only because of some aspects of it, like how topics become locked up in the subreddit silos with no choice for moderation, or how the voting works, i am quite sure this can be fixed with nostr
what i dont like about it is the sheer entitlement of most of the userbase. that and they all schilled for the ukraine war without understanding what was actually going on, among other things.
the reddit culture stems from its design which has allowed one group of people to control the site, this cant happen with nostr hopefully
Light mode is for people who willingly shoot a flashlight in their eyes and pretend its a great experience.
then system default😁