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> (I often use it on low brightness in dim ambient light)

I'm curious, why? I hate the whole screen glow of LCD in low light, much preferring the pure black of OLED.

There is no pure black if you watch videos or read HN or use any site or app not specifically optimized for this. Got me thinking if manufacturers started this dark theme trend actually because for phone in bed types like me dim OLEDs suck to look at unless they are 98% pure black...

And if I have full screen glow anyway then LCD looks better due to less flicker.

LCDs are more accurate in low light, but OLED can reproduce readable text at lower brightness from its higher contrast

Swings and roundabouts… for some people the grey tinge and messed up gamma curve of low brightness OLED is unacceptable. For others text readability in darkness is key

There’s also the PWM argument which has been beaten to death

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