Wow. A much better argument than the one he opposes… not!

Hard disagree. It is too bright to have full blast white screens in your face. Don’t tell me about my ambient lighting either.

[ …] instead of bullying the rest of the Internet into eyesight-damaging practices.

I’d prefer to avoid bulling others in any case and regardless of the benefits or harms of this or that. Meaning that the missing beginning of the above quoted stance, “Fix your lighting”, sounds as bullying to me , as those penetrant insistencies of said dark mode fetishists you seemed to be troubled about (too).

(I use both modes, by the way, depending on my current mood, and — in neither case — do I ever insist, that others have to act likewise.)

That said … I would have appreciate your post, if you hadn’t precisely done yourself, what I so disliked from too many of those, about whom you just complained.

No. Your dark mode suck.
My dark mode looks cool.

The CRT makers who chose black as the default background (instead of the shitty white background CRTs) and amber as the colour of choice for monochrome, knew what they were doing.

Just because paper is white (which is also only the case because of multiple extra processes) doesn’t mean that monitors need to be too. Papers are reflective, while monitors are emissive and should not have the same standards.