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aronowski 16h ago

Electric Gremlin

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.

@trysdyn ...could we see the example image?
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@Hearth @trysdyn I don't know if this is the example image being referred to, but A very good illustration of this phenomenon I saw recently is in this post: https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/115952831308984224

Deborah Pickett (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images This is what my corrected vision looks like. They’re both bad but the double images are easier to ignore when it’s dark-on-light. #LightMode #Accessibility #Disability

Old Mermaid Town

@Owlor @trysdyn ah, thank you. that seems not to be the thing we get, which i think is just due to our glasses being slightly off from the ideal prescription
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Electric Gremlin Feb 1

@Hearth @Owlor Ah sorry, I have a lot going on and just replying to people is easier than grabbing and sharing images. It was this, mostly about the straight beams shooting off from the lights.

@trysdyn @Owlor oh

we *do* have that, but no more than what's visible in that image. it doesn't seem to interfere with reading or anything
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Matteꙮ Italia Feb 1

@trysdyn reminds me of a friend in high school that, after finally going to an optometrist and starting wearing prescription glasses, was like "uh so the normal thing is to see the individual grass leaves from the classroom window"

Kg. Madee Ⅱ.Feb 1

@cvtsi2sd @trysdyn oof. My Grandpa had a similar experience, but only after he dropped out of School because he couldn't read the blackboard: When he moved to the city for his apprenticeship and got new glasses from a new optometrist, he sat in the tram and finally noticed there were people wearing patterned shirts 🤯

@trysdyn I've had to explain a number of times to people that light mode is more comfortable to me on places where I do a lot of reading, probably because of my astigmatism. For me, it isn't even that bad, I know of people with other eye conditions where dark mode text is almost unreadable.

@trysdyn goddamint now i can't unsee them. thanks needles

Heathen 🐈Feb 1

@trysdyn
For me this is people who make fun of ebook readers. I need hyuuuge fonts, even with my bifocals.

Both light mode and dark mode have pros and cons as well as being beneficial or damaging with specific health conditions or under specific environments.

The problem is cultural: you often see people that prefer dark mode mocking users of light mode and people that prefer light mode taunting it as the objectively better/healthier way.

Sebastian Crane 🏳️‍⚧️Feb 1

@trysdyn I have a very mild version of this condition, but my optician already told me about it. Thus I'd add to your advice by saying that you should consider taking advantage of opportunities for expert medical testing when possible, even if you don't think you need it. After all, treatment may not always be available later (if prices become unaffordable or you develop complicating conditions etc.) so the sooner that problems are identified the better.

Rexx Deane 🏳️‍🌈Feb 3

@trysdyn Ahh, I'm glad I tried to implement detection of browser preference for light/dark on my hypnotherapy website. Still not sure whether the preference selection is clear enough, though.

tranarchy_a_genderqueer

@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.

@trysdyn Calling people making fun of light mode users typically as a lighthearted joke ableist is an extreme I've never seen before. I legitimately don't know what to say to that

@trysdyn Holy fuck actually kill yourself

snackin happy Feb 3

@trysdyn One time somebody made fun of me for using comic sans font on my phone and I literally had a week long anxiety attack.

Stop, think, disabled child.

Sabrina Bonfert Feb 3

@trysdyn I've seen people straight up say "folks who use light mode are cops". 🫥 Really pisses me off.