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Using light mode at night hurts my eyes, but when I first discovered how to set dark mode some fifteen-some years ago, it was difficult to automatically change back and forth. I would have to manually change *every* single setting. It was so tedious. So I left my devices on dark mode constantly, even though that actually strained my eyes in the daytime.
And so I progressed until the present day assuming that it was still difficult.
But it’s not! Not anymore! There’s just a little toggle I can select in Cinnamon to switch my system. And Firefox (well, Floorp, but same difference) automatically changes when I tell it to! And so does Sidebery! And Dark Reader toggles itself! And so does Discord, and so does the shiny Mastodon userstyle I installed, and I can make my custom Dreamwidth userstyle turn itself off when I’m in light mode, and I just discovered Sublime Text can *also* automatically switch between light and dark mode, and and and.
This is *such* an improvement.
Now if only Lagrange followed suit, my life would be perfect.
(Still don’t know how to do this on my phone, which is an utter piece of shit from ten or so years ago, but I only really use it when I’m away from home or when I’m making the mistake of browsing the web in bed, so it’s not as vital to me.)
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(Edit: I’ve since noticed that Sublime Text does not change the color of its terminal when switching between dark and light mode, unless I close and reopen the program. Guess I’ll go complain about that somewhere.)