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How the Web Became Unreadable (kevinmarks.com)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ironically, I had to turn on reader mode to read his website because the black text on white background is just too harsh on my eyes. My reader mode settings have a contrast ratio of 6.16 according to the site that he links.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A lot of that is also a function of displays.

    Everyone and their mother want ridiculously bright displays with high contrast because we are all afraid of (I will never feel comfortable typing this without an awkward preamble) crushed blacks and so forth. Most people have no fricking clue what a "nit" is but you are more likely to know how many of those a display has than the actual resolution because that is what is put in the copy sent to reviewers.

    And when your display puts out brighter light than the bare light bulb in the room... suddenly a white background is REALLY brutal and everyone jokes about getting flashbanged.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I hate bright screens. On my phone I used the accessibility options to set up a trigger to reduce white point, turned it down decently far, and it’s easily the best QoL adaptation I’ve ever made re: screens.

    Only downside is it’s very difficult to tell what is in darker pictures. But because it’s on a trigger I can toggle it on and off very very easily.

    I genuinely wish I could do the same thing with my tv with just a simple trigger.. I know I can alter the brightness and contrast and stuff but I’d have to mess with so many options, spread across so many sub-menus (fuck you, googletv OS, you suck super hard. Whyyyyyyyyyyy are there multiple settings menus????), to get it anywhere near what I want that it’s not really worth doing (I just crash it down to zero brightness, it’s adequate, I guess, but it’s no white point reduction..)

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