Mastodawn

Today in a random large chat:

🙍 "Haha light mode users amirite?"
"I don't judge. Some people have different needs and preferences. I learned recently, for some people, text in dark mode halos really badly into unreadability"
🙍 "What do you mean 'halos'"
"Blurry auras around light-on-dark, like this example image"
🙍 "Wait that's not normal?"
"No it's a sign of a possible eye condition"
🙍 "Huh TIL. I thought that was just normal"

Seriously, throw out all your ridiculous notions of people having "Wrong" preferences and needs; you might be masking issues you yourself have and could be figuring out.

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VoidZeroOne

@trysdyn we always assume that our perspective is the "normal" one untill we learn otherwise.

For most of my life I had way above "normal" senses. Better eye sight, hearing, sense of smell/taste and haptic perception.

These days I have "normal" eyesight for my age and, with the exception of tinitus in both ears, normal hearing for my age. Only my sense of touch is significantly worse than "normal".

That makes working on electronics or playing the guitar impossible 😞

However, day to day, I always feel how much worse my sight and hearing are compared to what I was used to.

Sidenote: Light mode makes my eyes hurt.