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I am the complete opposite ... I'm in my 40s and dark modes are the only thing I can use.

The bright white glare bothers my eyes and I can't work for hours staring into it. I have to go dark on everything these days.

Back to the light-on-dark computers I grew up with :)

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In my 40s as well and same here. Light mode hurts me. But always has. My first computer was monochrome green on black. Then MSX for many years where the first command after startup would be color15,1,1 (white on black) until I was able to make a custom eprom to have it at startup.

I mainly use light modes, but very rarely use white ones. Similarly, I often find that many dark modes, esp. those emulating old-style terminals and computers, liek to put bright green colors on bright (as it were) black, or similar schemes that to me are more garish than, say, Base16.

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